Beverly Birdwell

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watercolor
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Bev Birdwell has called Vancouver, Washington home for the past 34 years.  During this time she has had a painting studio, Arts Desire, where many weekly classes and specialty workshops are held.  For the past 35 years she has been able to have her studio on the same property as her home, which has allowed her to paint and teach and enjoy her beautiful flower garden right out the classroom window.  Favorite painting subjects are florals, gardens and wildlife in oil or watercolor.   

She spent about 13 years as a staff teacher for Susan Scheewe Publications, and in recent years has been teaching painting workshops at various art conventions and at the annual. Bev has published two instructional books titled “Garden Collection” and “Garden Collection 2” on painting flowers in acrylic, watercolor and oil which have been well received.  

Bev went to Taiwan representing Martin F Weber /Susan Scheewe acrylics in 4 different teaching trips at K Kingdom which were each 2-3 weeks in duration and teaching with the Scheewe acrylic and watercolors.

Bev has hosted several groups of painters to the Lott area of France and Tuscany for 10 day artist retreats where many sights were visited.  This included some sketching on site and also more watercolor painting after returning to our lodging accommodations.  They were followed with trips to Paris as well.