Sue Messerly makes her home in Altus, Oklahoma. She and her husband spend many days a year in the nearby Wichita Mountains, camping and hiking. Her love of the rugged scenery and wildlife found there is expressed in many of her paintings. Sue majored in fine art at Colorado University and at North Texas State University. She has also taken workshops from Tony Couch, Rick McClure, Ben Konis, John Buducin, and Jill Carver. Sue often paints outdoors in plein air. She uses these paintings and photographs she has taken to paint more detailed...more