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130. Susan at Carmel-by-the-sea
Oil, Canvas Art Paper Professionally Mounted & Framed 16×10
Susan loved her remote control for her camera. This was a self-portrait of her loving the Pacific beach in California.
Comes with a framed 8″X10″ copy of the original photograph that Susan painted it from.
$300
102. PICTURED ROCKS LOVERS LEAP
Oil on Lombardy Poplar Tree Bark
10×41
These paintings are one of a kind in the world, and are priced accordingly. When you see them in person you understand how amazing, and special they are!
One of the first places I took Susan was to Pictured Rocks. She probably took over a thousand pictures while we were on the boat cruise. This was one of them.
Susan hand-picked the tree bark from Middle Island beach where the Lombardy Poplars are now all gone. It is painted on the smooth inside of the bark. It has mounting wire installed on the back.
$325
103. Picnic rocks
Oil on Keweenaw White Sandstone
11×19
Susan had me collect the white sandstone from the east coast of the Keweenaw to paint on. The rocks are from what the locals there call “Bare Bottom Beach”!
We lived across the road from Picnic Rocks and Susan spent a lot of time there while I was working.
Comes with mini-easel Susan painted it on.
$150
104. Presque Isle Rocks
Oil on Keweenaw White Sandstone
12×15
Susan had me collect the White Sandstone from the east coast of the Keweenaw Peninsula. The rocks are from what the locals call “Bare Bottom Beach”.
Presque Isle in Marquette was one of Susan’s favorite places to go. This was on the East end of the Island, at low water in 2014.
Comes with mini-easel Susan painted it on.
$150
105. Mccarty's cove lighthouse (Large)
Oil on Keweenaw White Sandstone
9×15
Susan had me collect the White Sandstone from the East Coast of the Keweenaw Peninsula. The locals there call it “Bare Bottom Beach”!
Susan’s love for the iconic Marquette Lighthouse is evident in this painting. She loved the beach being right across the street from our apartment in 2013.
Comes with mini-easel Susan painted it on.
$150 – Min. Bid
119. Black Rocks Leap of Faith
Oil, Canvas Board
5×6
This is a delicately small painting of an immense Marquette favorite. It is a painting only a petite Filipina like Susan Reyes Schumacher could have painted!
Susan did not swim well, so she never jumped from the Black Rocks at Presque Isle. She loved watching others do so.
$75
Susan's General Art Work
107. Girl With Teddy in Snow
Oil, Canvas Board
8×10
Susan loved children. When she came to Marquette, she loved the snow too, hence these wonderful winter scenes.
$120
108. Tube Sledding
Oil, Canvas Board
8×10
Susan had a child like love of snow. We spent lots of time playing in the snow together. I think her Snow Series reflect her love of snow.
$120
109. Snow Day
Oil, Canvas Board
12×16
Susan was wary of her ability to paint faces. She became very good at it in this touching snow painting.
$120
110. Woman At The Beach
Oil, Canvas Board
6×8
Her love of beaches and looking to the horizons inspired her beach paintings.
$95
113. Girl in Pink Bathing Suit
Oil, Canvas Board
8×10
Little girls, little boys, I think in Susan’s heart they were her children.
$120
114. Boy on Beach
Oil, Canvas Board
8×10
Such a beautiful face on this little boy. Susan didn’t think she could paint faces. Susan was now painting faces beautifully.
$120
117. Out for a swim
Oil, Canvas Board
5×6
In Marquette the beach was our second home. Susan often took pictures there and this was one of them.
$75
118. Tracing Love in the sand
Oil, Canvas Board
5×6
From our Honeymoon at Cannon Beach on, we always wrote of our love for each other in the sand.
$75
120. Afternoon Near the Mountains
Oil, Canvas Board
8×10
I don’t know what inspired her paintings of children at the fence’s series. Maybe just her child-like heart at play.
$120
129. East Sky at Sunset
Oil, Canvas Board
6×8
Sunsets were one of Susan’s favorite things to watch. One day she looked eastward during the sunset and took a picture to paint.
$95
131. Woman Washing Clothes
Oil, Canvas Board
8×10
One of her last paintings. Such an angelic face on this Philippine woman washing clothes. I think she really missed being home in her last days.
$120
133. Leaping Ballet Dancer
Oil, Canvas Board
6×8
This personified the heart of Susan. She is now dancing with the Lord.
$95
134. Ballet Dancer
Oil, Canvas Board
6×8
A friend of Susan’s in Seattle was a dancer. She inspired this series.
$95
135. Dancing Ballet Slippers
Oil, Canvas Board
6×8
Susan was a dancer, but did not do ballet. I think she was amazed at how ballet dancers could stand on their toes.
$95
137. Sunset on the Puget Sound
Oil, Canvas Board
12×16
An early painting done in Seattle. Susan took many day trips and thousands of pictures of what she saw. Then she painted.
$185
138. Still Life with Pitcher
Oil, Canvas Board
12×16
Another early painting of still life. Even then her eye saw unremarkable things and painted them remarkably.
$185
139. Flowers
Oil, Canvas Board
12×16
Another painting from her photograph. Susan loved flowers I think, more than anything. They are as delicate as she was.
$185
140. Before The Storm
Oil, Canvas Board
6×8
Susan loved wild waves and storms. Here again is her mystery woman at the beach loving the water.
$95
141. Philippine Countryside
Oil, Canvas
11×14
Susan loved her homeland and painted it as she remembered it. When we were there, I saw her memory of the countryside was spot on.
$165
142. Pacific Coast Study
Oil, Canvas
8×10
When Susan lived in Seattle, she and her friends and sisters would take weekend trips to explore the Pacific Coast. One of her many pictures of the coast turned into a painting.
$120
144. Misty Mountain Sunset
Oil, Canvas
11×14
The Cascade mountains were Susan’s backyard for several years. This was from one of her many weekend trips there.
$165
145. Pacific Shore
Oil, Canvas
8×10
Another remarkable Pacific coast painting from either Oregon or Northern California. This was prior to 2013 when we married and I moved her to Marquette.
$120
146. Northern Lights
Oil, Canvas
11×14
We only got to see the Northern Lights once in Marquette. Susan was totally fascinated by them. Again, a photograph she painted.
$165
148. Tulip Fields
Oil, Canvas
8×10
Susan loved the Tulip farms in Washington. This was one of her favorites.
$120
149. Haystack Rock
Oil, Canvas
8×10
This was Susan’s favorite weekend getaway location in Oregon. We honeymooned there, May 1, 2013.
$120
151. The Shell
Oil, Canvas
8×10
I don’t know much about this except it was the Pacific coast. It is just remarkable. Similar and perhaps the mate to # 167 “Tiny Palm Island”. Both metaphysical type paintings.
$120
152. Autumn Reflections
Oil, Canvas
24×32
Pointillism at it’s best by Susan! Another of her photographs she painted.
$325
153. Daisies at Mt. Hood
Oil, Canvas
18×24
Climbing the Pacific coast mountains was one of Susan’s loves. This is from one of her photographic adventures.
$265
154. Mt. Rainier
Oil, Canvas
16×20
Susan had an eye for beauty. She truly loved God’s Creation. The majesty of which she shared in this painting.
$235
155. The Slope 2
Oil, Canvas
20×24
Painted from the photograph in painting #156. More of the Cascades in Washington. Yes, she climbed these mountains, took pictures, and then painted them.
$285
156. The Slope
Oil, Canvas
15×30
Another perspective of the Cascades from the same photograph as #155. You can see the clear-cut forests in the hillsides in the background. Remarkable.
$275
157. Happy Meadow
Oil, Canvas
12×24
Fall colors were one of Susan’s love. This was from a hike of hers high up in the mountains. This is truly a joyful psychedelic perspective.
$225
158. Mountain Meadow in Fall
Oil, Canvas
12×24
Another in her mountain, fall color series. Such a beautiful, psychedelic, playful, perspective from a Philippine woman’s eyes.
$225
159. Flowers by the Hillside
Oil, Canvas
12×24
From another springtime hike in the Cascades. She truly loved the mountains.
$225
160. Lake Washington
Oil, Canvas
12×16
Susan’s benefactor lived on Lake Washington in Seattle. There Susan explored and developed her painting skills, letting the paintings dry all over the living room. This was the view out the windows.
$185
161. Coming Home from market
Oil, Canvas
12×16
This was Susan’s last painting. Originally the women were in a city. I suggested she change the background to the countryside. She loved the idea.
$225
163. Reflections at Sunset
Oil, Canvas
16×20
Lake Washington in Seattle at sunset, through Susan’s eyes.
$235
164. Figure Study
Oil, Canvas
12×16
An early painting in what I call her “Brown” period. A stunning model from her painting class.
$185
165. Woman in Boudoir
Oil, Canvas
12×16
More from her “Brown” period. Perhaps the same model as in painting # 164, “Figure study”.
$185
167. Tiny Palm Island
Oil, Canvas
12×16
Perhaps the mate to #151, “The Shell”. Both metaphysical type paintings.
$185
168. Girl With Flower Study
Oil, Canvas
11×14
A friend of Susan’s was the inspiration of this series. Susan never got to “finish” this. She intended to, but the cancer didn’t let her. It is magnificent even so.
$165
169. Field Of Flowers
Oil, Canvas Board
11×14
From the springtime fields of the Great Northwest that was Susan’s first stop in the United States.
$165
170. Shimmering Sunset on Mt. Washington
Oil, Canvas
11×14
Outside the living room window of Susan’s home in Seattle. I love the shimmering lights of the homes across the lake.
$165
172. Big Sur
Oil, Canvas paper
20×16
A simply majestic painting of Big Sur done after Susan’s first visit there.
$135
173. Girl in the Mirror
Oil, Matted & Framed
12×16
An early painting from Susan’s “Brown” period. The girl in the mirror is amazingly enchanting. In person this painting is very moving.
$185
175. Daisies
Oil, Matted & Framed
12×16
A 3-D painting including the sides. It is surface mounted to show that. Lovely Daisies!
$185
Picture Frames
177. Portrait Mirror
Frame with mirror
9×11
Susan’s organic design with driftwood, sea shells and raffia.
$125
178. Portrait Frame with Marquette Lighthouse Photo
Frame
9×11
Susan’s photograph in a frame of Marquette pebbles, driftwood and sea shells with raffia.
$135
179. Heart Shape Frame
Frame
8×8
Susan loved hearts! Marquette driftwood and pebbles, with sea shells.
$100
180. Portrait Frame
Frame
6×8
A simple rectangle frame with Marquette pebbles and driftwood.
$75
183. Portrait Frame
Frame
12×14
A joyful frame of Marquette driftwood, sea shells, and raffia.
$155
184. Square Mirror
Frame with mirror
10×10
A dramatic square mirror frame of Marquette driftwood with raffia.
$125
185. Heart Shape Frame
Frame
8×8
This is a sensual, organic design of a heart frame with Marquette driftwood and sea shells.
$100
186. Square Frame
Frame
8×8
Susan had a vision unparalleled in all she did. Marquette driftwood and pebbles, sea shells and raffia.
$100
189. Birch Bark Frame
Frame
7×9
This frame is just one of one. After Susan passed away, I found a huge box of birch bark she was going to make more frames out of and to paint on. Cancer prevented her of creating any more.
$100
190. Landscape Frame (Photograph and Quote included)
Frame
7×8
Susan used to make Biblical inspirational photographs. This is in a frame of Marquette driftwood and sea shells.
$90
191. Portrait Frame
Frame
7×8
An off-center frame of Marquette driftwood and pebbles. The piece of wood pointing off the left side, is the frame stand that was not edited out. There is also no display picture in the photo opening on the right side of the frame.
$90
192. Heart Shape Frame
Frame
6.5×8.5
More hearts that Susan loved. Marquette driftwood, sea shells and raffia.
$110
194. Heart Shaped Frame
Frame. Marquette Beach Pebbles
6.5×8.5
Simply beautiful, hand-picked, lacquered pebble heart frame.
$90
195. Heart Shape Frame
Frame, Marquette Beach Pebbles, Mother of Pearl
6.5×8.5
For this beauty, Susan added mother-of-pearl to the lacquered pebble frame.
$95
196. Large portrait Frame
Frame
12×14
Perhaps Susan’s finest and most complex frame with Marquette driftwood and pebbles, sea shells, and raffia. Magnificent.
$155
197. Heart Frame
Frame
6.5×8.5
An heart shaped frame with Marquette driftwood, seashells, and raffia.
$90
198. Susan's Art Easel
Custom-Built Portable Wooden Artist Easel. This was Susan’s easel she used for her larger paintings. She used smaller easels for the small paintings. Her friend custom-hand-made it for her out of hardwood. The easel has adjustable trays for different size paintings. It has easy to assemble instructions, and it also comes with a custom-made carrying bag as well!
$250
