Wood carver turns to painting
By Marilyn Colter
Fine Arts Festival Board
When this novice painter stepped back from her canvas and decided the
work was good enough to compete in a festival poster contest, she was right.
Susan Link's painting of a high country lake will be featured on the poster
for the 10th Annual Red Feather Lakes Fine Arts Festival.
It was Link's 16th painting. An accomplished wood carver, she has been
studying oil painting via video for about six months but didn't get serious
about painting until about two months ago. Now she's hooked on the form.
"I just love it," she said. "I don't feel like I'm doing it. It just happens."
She uses Bob Ross's "big brush" technique she says and just begins painting
and something appears on the canvas. She says she gives some of her paintings
to her daughters and to people who fall in love with them. "I have pictures
hung all over my house," she added.
Link came to Crystal Lakes from Michigan about five years ago after her
husband died. She wanted to be closer to her daughters, one of whom lives
in Windsor. She said that her daughter introduced her to the Red Feather
Lakes area shortly after she arrived in Colorado, and Link fell in love
with the area's beauty, found a property and bought it. She doesn't plan
on leaving anytime soon either.
"I'm like that," she said. "I see something I want and I make a decision
to do it. It's the way I am."
Link will receive a $250 prize for the painting, and it will be auctioned
to the highest bidder during the 2005 Fine Arts Festival's Silent Auction
benefiting the Red Feather Lakes Historical Society in 2005. Signed posters
will be sold for $15 as well during the fine arts sale and show on May
28. The festival features an artist's reception on Friday night at Fox
Acres Country Club, where the silent auction is first available for viewing,
the art sale and show in the village and a reading by local writers at
the library on May 28. A quilt exhibition will be featured at the Chapel
in the Pines in conjunction with the festival.
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