Susan Stone attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, majoring in illustration and fine art. She has also taken various classes at Rhode Island School of Design and has been a working artist since 1975. Her interest in rendering birds, particularly waterfowl, was sparked by her first art-related job illustrating a weekly column "Wings ‘N' Things" for the Waterbury Republican newspaper in Connecticut in the early 1970's. Soon to follow was Birds of Connecticut Salt Marshes, published by the Arboretum at Connecticut College. Since then she has illustrated many more books, worked as a graphic artist and illustrator and exhibited in galleries including the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Hartford Fine Art and Framing in East Hartford, and Picture This Gallery in Westport, Connecticut. Her work is in private collections across the country and in far-flung places such as Australia, Italy and France. In addition to natural history subjects, pet portraits and landscapes, Susan is an accomplished artist of architectural subjects, and is able to render a detailed and accurate drawing or painting from life, from blueprints or even the concept sketched out on a napkin. She also teaches classes in watercolor, pen & ink, colored pencils, mixed media and perspective. Susan has a studio in the Eau Gallie area of Melbourne, Florida. Watercolor is her favorite medium followed closely by pen & ink and colored pencils. She works in each media independently but frequently combines two or all three mediums in some of her paintings.