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WELCOME! This site features the art of Susan Stamilio. The books and patterns offered by SKS Designs are part of the artist’s personal celebration of the rich and colorful heritage of decorative painting. We are pleased to have you join us, and hope the designs offered for sale here will provide you with many hours of painting enjoyment. Be sure to sign the guestbook before you leave!

Updated March 2008
Have a wonderful Spring!

The past year has been filled with many new and exciting opportunities in the fields of commercial art and licensing for Susan. Try as she might, it is simply impossible to “do it all” AND do it well. For that reason, Susan has decided to take a sabbatical from teaching in order to concentrate her energies on creating a comprehensive portfolio of new design work. Please join us in Maryland for what will be her final seminar for the foreseeable future.

A new angel project has been designed specifically for this class to teach the fundamentals of face painting. It features a lovely angel with outstretched wings, ornamental collar and jeweled head piece. Discussion and demonstration of several different painting methods commonly used to create realistic looking faces will be covered during this two day seminar. We welcome you to click on the Seminars link for further information.

Susan K. Stamilio is a decorative painter living in the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area. Frequent moves throughout her husband’s career with the US Army and their 30+ year marriage, have allowed the two of them to travel extensively. It has also provided the perfect opportunity for Sue to study and gather research materials on various art forms around the world.

Formal training in fine art and commercial illustration has positioned Susan to work professionally in the fields of commercial and scientific illustration, architectural drafting, graphics and printing, portrait work, and theater arts. Sue has published four decorative painting books and illustrated five medical and veterinary books. She has created numerous designs for instructive painting magazines, and has taught seminars around the world to students of all skill levels.

Susan’s work has been featured at the White House for several special occasions. Commissioned pieces by both the US State Department and the White House have been presented as gifts from sitting US Presidents to both foreign dignitaries and personal friends. She has been featured in decorative art exhibitions in the United States, Australia, Germany, and most recently at the Nihon Vogue Decorative Painting Gallery of the World in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan. Susan is represented in the licensing market by Artistic Designs Group.

The collaboration with Charlene Joel, Creative Consultant and Operations Manager for SKS Designs, began as a result of joint European tours, allowing the two of them to share their enthusiasm for the diverse artistic styles found there. After returning to the U.S. they trained together at both the Institute of Sacred Art at Ender’s Island and the Sacred Art Academy in Pennsylvania, two of this country’s premier academies of iconography and illumination.

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