Art and Poetry

Bev Adams from the Cazenovia Watercolor Society surprised me with this poem at the end of our workshop. Thank you Bev, I am really honored. The slide show following this post is from that great workshop. Can I interest your group in one?

FOR OUR TALENTED, INSPIRING , PROVOCATIVE,

UPBEAT,  PRACTICAL, SHARING, TRUSTY LEADER

Susan Tregay 

Has a wonderful way

Of making a workshop fun.

We tape and we mop

Anything that's a flop

Then marvel at what we have done.

She stresses CONtent

And won't be conTENT

Till we are expressing our passion.

Says she, be unique,

Develop technique

So your paintings are not purely fashion.

Jasper Johns brought our Susan

Out of  confusion

And he changed her art life forever.

He said  don't relax

Let your painting climax

At the end of a threefold endeavor.

Sue pushes brainstorming

For ideas a-forming

She herself  has a brain that is quirky.

Though her houses are cockeyed,

Her perspective quite lopside,

Still, she rarely turns out a turkey. 

For pupils perplexed

About what to do next

She shouts loud and clear  "Make it darker"

Apply lots of paint,

Don't be what you ain't

And then make it even more darker. 

(apologies to my English teachers.)

Approximation

Can bring elation

Sayeth Susan, our woman wise

Step by step

Through goals she swept

Until she reached the prize. 

Now we offer our thanks

You've filled our art banks

And we each have a flip book to treasure.

You helped us define

What is known as design

And you've  given us very full measure.

Thank you, thank you, Susan, for a fun

and instructive four days.

And thank you for teaching us that "nice" is not enough.       

Cazenovia Watercolor Society Workshop

May 5 to 8   2008