Dot Courson Fine Art Blog

Dot Courson's 2012...  told using Photos: Painted this in January 2012-- Sold it in December 2012. A solo show at Caron Gallery in March. This ad was in American Art Collector Magazine . A book of my paintings - Landscapes of the South: The Paintings of Dot Courson - published  in February and available from me. Two of my painting demos (one shown on the bottom left corner) were done in February and will be published in this book Creative Freedom by artist Maggie Price. Published by North Light Books this year!. Pre-order HERE .    Invited to the Southeastern  Plein Air Invitational in April 2012 - my 3rd year in a row. Beginning a painting while teaching en plein air this spring.  My daughter's work and mine in a show at Northeast MS Community College in the fall of 2012. One of my early paintings that the Mississippi DAR showed as part of a slideshow of my work in Wa...

Artist Workshops My husband Jackie and I host workshops for artists.  If you are an artist you understand about workshops. If you are not a painter, just think of it as education and continuing education for artists. These workshops are for students, intermediate artists and professionals. Sometimes the students are professional artists studying with another artist that they admire. Sometimes even the professional artist instructors themselves study with the other professional artists that they admire! No artist ever stops learning and we all learn a lot from each other.  I see lots of different styles of painting and work that I admire and their work styles range a lot. We recently invited and hosted a workshop with Anne Blair Brown.  Her work is loose and she has beautiful sense of color relationships within her works. A lot of what I love about here work is the beautiful colorful "grays" she mixes. I also like the way she lays in the ...

What can be more fun than painting? Especially in the fall! This is a photo from the side back of our yard looking back toward the house. Below is a photo of me that Jackie, my husband took without my permission today. I'm painting the trees right behind our house and studio. My studio is upstairs and overlooks the woods. but I had to be outside to feel the light and be eye level with the trees. I have been working outside on this daily  at 4PM - but today it was 3 as time changed last night:... It was a pretty day today!  Here is Scaredy- my cat today - she always keeps me company! Okay brush washing! Awhile back a friend asked how I washed my brushes and suggested that I blog about it. When I'm outside painting en plein air, I rinse my brushes in the portable brush washer and take it inside to my studio to re-rinse in a large vat of Gamisol that I have or wash them with my cleaner on the road. Sometimes I  just use white soap away from home...