by Dixie | Jan 30, 2010 | history
When a person is eager to learn all they can about watercolor and art and even copies from paintings in a book, it is a privilege. One thing to be sure to do when you copy is to put the name of the original artist along with your own name. About 10 years after I did...
by Dixie | Jan 8, 2010 | history
In the early 1970’s we were new in town, (Morgan City. LA), in a new place, and the kids were in school and I was eager to get some painting done. All I had was the corner of my small kitchen with a window of southern light. In this photo, taken by the local...
by Dixie | Dec 31, 2009 | history
My most valuable lessons where by Henry Hensche who came to the south to teach at the art school I was attending. Here I am with Henry critiquing my work. I was taught how to see the color of light, and you would think it was easy by just painting simple colored...
by Dixie | Dec 31, 2009 | history
I knew how colorful California was, but when I moved to the swamp land I thought it was the ugliest part of the whole United States!  What I found out is that I could use other colors than the actual drab, dull environment. Of course, after studying with Henry...
by Dixie | Dec 31, 2009 | history
One night I was at my kitchen sink, doing the dishes, watching the evening sky and taking note on how the sky was so beautiful. The next morning I was at my painting table putting down that sky in watercolors, then when it was dry, I made up a typical swamp scene...
by Dixie | Dec 23, 2009 | history
When my husband was a kid, he used to play on this old truck in Imperial Valley, a desert area of southern California. I thought this would be a good subject for a painting so I did a watercolor of it, and it was accepted in a national exhibition in Houston TX in...