Florida-based Sue Lynn (Cushenberry) Cotton grew up in East Texas on a small farm drawing at a very young age. Her love of art followed her through life with thirty years in commercial art as a creative designer for marketing and as an illustrator of people, shoes and various products, as well as a book illustrator and book cover designer.

As an illustrator, she knows how to paint realism. But she also knows how to loosen up and achieve a painterly watercolor style in other areas of the painting.

Well-known for her portraits and renderings of local architecture, she is  best known for her watercolor classes. Her popular classes are filled year round with students who learn to mix their colors on the paper using a limited palette for unified, interesting color throughout the painting. Students also learn how to paint light, unify their paintings and achieve good contrast and design while conveying a feeling in each piece. 

The classes are fun, require little drawing and teach a real understanding of color and technique. She demonstrates painting a different subject in each class as students painting along with a lot of tips to make watercolor easier.

The Society of Decorative Painters Magazine published how-to-paint articles by Sue Lynn in the Spring 08 and Spring 09 issues.

Recently her portrait of "Meow Meow" (a friend's cat) was featured on the cover of a Danish magazine for the prevention of cruelty to animals--Landsforeningen Forsogsdyrenes Vaern.

Her work can be seen in galleries in Texas, Florida and Maine.

The small, 11" x 15" demonstrations she paints in class give art collectors a chance to own original art at a special low price of $75 . Other studio works begin at $250.

Consult the class pages for this week’s demos and class schedules.