Dot Courson Fine Art Blog

I love having a garden.  I almost said I love gardening, but that isn't honest. I don't do any of it, my husband Jackie does it all. It's all his and he is devoted to it and also seems to enjoys it. But that is his true nature about everything and I'm so blessed to have him! I'm nothing like that. I just love looking at the garden -oh yeah -and eating the veggies like all of Chicken Little's lazy friends. No honest-to-goodness southerner can deny that the garden's bounty is secondary to anything- even art -with the  aroma of savory veggies cooking  in summer!   Several years ago, when I talked him into starting a garden- yes I did- and he denies it but it's true- I had two requests :  1. Plant apple trees 2. Grow Better Boy Tomatoes along with the Celebrity variety that he loves. It's all about the nostalgia as much as it is the harvest for me : I remember as a child climbing apple trees and eating green apples and wanted some for my grand k...

    Landfill Art Project... This has made recycling a lot of fun...  I'm one of the artists selected to be involved in the Landfill Art Project: a world-wide art collection that involves  1041 artists worldwide  making art from rusted garbage.... In this case - hub caps !  I was contacted by Ken Marques over a year ago with a very interesting proposition. He's the director of this global project that is being done in Pennesylvania, and after taking with him a few times, I whole heartedly agreed to be a part of this effort. I was his only artist from Mississippi at the time - still may be -not sure-and he loved the idea that I relate a "Mississippi blues" history in my painting . Delta Blues Highway 61 © Dot Courson. (Go to the site to see this larger.)  I finally got my hub cap painted just a few weeks ago, and turned in to him after I rejected the one he first sent me to paint- I wanted something smoother! The first hubcap had weir...