Since moving to Buffalo, I taught regular classes at Buffalo Arts Studio in the Tri-Main Building for over 7 years, and have now moved to O'Brien Hall on the West Side. Some course descriptions are listed here, but offerings change each session. Please contact me if you are interested in a class.

Watercolor Workshop/Florals
Int/Adv students only, limited to 10 students
Work on half and full sheets from fresh foliage and flowers. Materials list available from instructor prior to class. Students bring brown bag lunch to eat during critique.

Watercolor Beginners Workshop
This hands-on workshop will familiarize students with specialized watercolor brushes, paper, and paint and will include one painting exercise using the materials discussed. This is an excellent introduction to watercolors without having to invest in specialized equipment.

Watercolor/Aquarelle
Maximum Enrollment of 10 Students
Explore transparent watercolor through systematic, skill-building exercises producing 3-4 paintings by the end of the six classes. Students must supply their own materials from a list available to registrants prior to the first class.

Special Effects in Watercolor
Int/Adv students only, limited to 10 students
Work with additions of special papers, mediums, and variety of subject matter. Students responsible for special materials list available from instructor prior to class. Students bring brown bag lunch to eat during critique.

Artist Statement

Sally Treanor is a Buffalo native who received early training in oils from portraitist George Palmer and figurative artist Grace McKendry. Since 1975, her professional commitment has been to transparent watercolor. She has studied with eminent watercolorists in many areas of the country and has traveled to master classes throughout the United States and abroad to China, Italy, Switzerland, Greece and England. Sally has lived all over the United States, moving with her family for twenty years before returning to Buffalo in 1987. The opportunity to immerse in landscapes as varied as Hawaii, the Hudson Valley, and the Deep South has informed her landscape painting.

An Aquarellist, Treanor employs traditional transparent watercolor techniques using no opaque white or black pigments. Works are done with great attention to color in a limited palette based on triads. Paintings are open-ended, developed directly from natural materials and artifacts, juxtaposing calligraphic strokes with sweeping washes and soft edges. Her landscape and figurative work is strongly dependent on drawing and design. She believes that each painting communicates a personal encounter with her environment.

Treanor teaches beginning and intermediate students at O’Brien Hall on the West Side of Buffalo. She has a passion for teaching, taking great joy in the progress of her students. She takes care to thoroughly introduce her students to the materials, techniques, and vocabulary of watercolor and art in general. Her classes explore transparent watercolor through systematic, skill-building exercises that she first demonstrates and then follows with a full-class critique. She is available for workshops and demonstrations and especially enjoys giving still life classes.

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