Guest Blog - Artist Robin Roberts
A note from Dot: Robin Roberts was so kind to send this to me... and I want to share it with you... Dot Courson's Guest Blogger.... Robin Roberts .... Scary vs Fun... It went something like this: one of my ardent painting students requested a class about faces and suggested we use a photo of a pretty lady she noticed in a blog. It just happened to be my friend Dot Courson of Pontotoc Ms. The student liked the smiling face and the straw hat. So I requested a printable photo from Dot that she graciously supplied. The students who attended are the brave ones willing to learn and tolerate boo boos. I told them this would NOT be the portrait in a curly gold frame. The class was intended to let them experiment and play with a face and not worry about having a finished "portrait" . You can see the reference photo of Dot that we used in the top photo . We talked about the axis tilt of the head, and some basic p...