Illustrator and fine artist Susan Keeter, SU graduate and Syracuse resident, opened her workshop with a reading from the lyrical Honey Baby Sugar Child, by Alice Faye Duncan, while walking her illustrated pages around the circle of children.
Susan then enlightened our young artists about the glories of Cray-Pas as a convenient substitute for oil paints, with the capacity for blending and layering. She demonstrated the versatility of the medium in doing a portrait sketch of Syris before our very-amazed-eyes. She elicited the students’ knowledge of light and color, while guiding them into new knowledge and observation.
The teachers arranged a rich variety of objects, flowers, feathers, cloths into complex still lifes, each for a small group to draw with the brilliant colors of Cray-Pas. It was fascinating to note how each child approached the work uniquely, and all with strong focus.
Susan gave appreciative feedback at our concluding circle, noticing how students experimented with technique, selected different aspects of the still life and background for their composition, and approached the use of color and pattern.
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