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Sue Halstenberg's pastel "Victoria" was featured on the cover of American Artist Magazine. Sue's beautiful sunlit Victorian era ladies, in their lace and flower adorned fashionable big hats, are certainly a pleasure to look at. Her friends and family posed for these pastel paintings wearing actual vintage clothes to help bring her nostalgic ladies to life. Sue's delightfully delicate attention to detail and use of color creates this romantic realism that she is well-known for.

Sue Halstenberg has lived in Southern California her entire life. She studied Art History at UC San Diego before earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where she studied under many accomplished artists. Sue started her career as a department store fashion illustrator with her drawings continuously appearing in the Los Angeles Times for over seven years. She later attended workshops at Scottsdale Artist's School where she was most influenced by the outdoor figure painting class of George Carlson. Sue decided to leave the commercial art world to create paintings containing deeper esthetic values and lasting appeal. "I am most intrigued by drawing the shapes and subtle forms of a...