Susan Lobb Porter is a full time abstract artist & teacher working in Northern California. She's an equal opportunity mark maker, rarely sticking with one medium as she works on any given piece. What begins as a blank canvas or wood panel quickly becomes a series of layers, most of which will be painted over as the work proceeds. The final layers may appear to be oil and cold wax but if you give it a closer look you might see graphite or charcoal or colored pencil, not to mention plaster, acrylic, collage and even sometimes digital manipulation. Because of this, she now...more
