Welcome!
I offer live online workshops and pre-recorded courses to help you draw and paint realistic birds.
My Approach
tk classical realism/applied learning
Current Live Online Workshops
Winter 2026
These are mentorship style live online workshops with limited space to facilitate one-on-one support as you learn and develop your skills.
Learn how to build a bird using simple shapes, shading, and texture in this live workshop. During this 4-week workshop hosted on Zoom, Susannah will show you the techniques to sketch birds from observation using a few graphite pencils and a kneaded eraser. No prior drawing experience is necessary.
Get to the next level of your studio painting practice in this personalized mentorship workshop. During this 12-week mentorship workshop hosted on Zoom, Susannah will demonstrate techniques used in her large watercolor bird paintings. Each artist will work on a personal painting, choosing their own subject matter, while following along. Every other week Susannah will give one-on-one guidance to each artist as they progress through and create a finished painting.
Learn the watercolor skills to create realistic bird paintings in this live workshop. During this 4-week workshop hosted on Zoom, Susannah demonstrates basic watercolor techniques to paint birds using a limited watercolor palette. No prior painting experience is necessary. Students will learn to control watercolor using mostly a wet-on-dry technique.
Feathered Friends
Feathered Friends is a series of 5-step pre-recorded courses intended to be completed over five days and meant to fast track your learning to draw and paint birds.
Feathered Friends workshops are small courses that consists of 5 lessons intended to be taken over the course of 5 days. Students will learn to create a sketch with accurate proportions and to control watercolor using a wet-on-dry technique.
Feathered Friends workshops are small courses that consists of 5 lessons intended to be taken over the course of 5 days. Students will learn to create a sketch with accurate proportions and to control watercolor using a wet-on-dry technique.
Feathered Friends workshops are small courses that consists of 5 lessons intended to be taken over the course of 5 days. Students will learn to create a sketch with accurate proportions and to control watercolor using a wet-on-dry technique.
Free weekly livestream replays on YouTube!
Enjoy my weekly drawing and painting program. Episode replays posted on YouTube every Thursday.