Cajun folk artist Dot-tee expresses life on the bayou
The 59-year-old artist graduated from Nicholls State University and taught mostly kindergarten for 32 years. She also spent time working at the Chauvin Sculpture Garden, about a mile up the bayou from her home. "That's where I got really interested in art," Dot-tee said. "When I quit teachin' I said, 'You know what? I wanted to be an artist my whole life so I need to do it.'" "I worked in gardens at [the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium] and I was having trouble with tou-lou-lous [fiddler crabs]. So I started painting tou-lou-lous [on objects] as a joke," she said. But the joke turned on her as the popularity of miniature crab figures displayed three dimensionally with layers of glass and varnish became a popular and profitable product desired by others. Dot-tee's tools are what she finds available. "I don't just use brushes. I also use toothpicks, paperclips, I use the wrong end of a brush, I like a pencil and sponges, anything that is going to give me a different shape. But my favorite little tool is this pot," Dot-tee said holding up a small metal container. "This was my mawmaw's rice pot. So it means a lot to me.Folk Art Paint - News
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Dot-tee has never had an art lesson. "I just paint what I feel. That's what makes folk art different. It comes from the heart. I'd rather do it freehand [than use a pattern]. "I like the feel of glass and told my husband, 'We ought to make pictures on
The highlight of the Ohio folk art included eleven works by Columbus artist Elijah Pierce, the son of a former slave, whose work ranges from the religious to the secular (showing his interests in politics, sports, and African-American history).
The pair was displayed near a large double door cupboard with a cutout base that had been scraped down to the original blue paint. Folk art paintings with applied decoy carvings by Mucka Davis were displayed. Nolan commented that the paintings were
Folk Art by Campbell Jane: That's alot of Coffee & Paint!
My house is full of music everyday, My husband & both sons are musicians, I don't like to eat a lot of things that start with the letter A with the exception of apples & artichokes, I love shoes but hardly wear them, I have impossible to curl blonde hair that is below my waist, I like to paint late at night, I like boating but get sea sick on the ocean, I like cats but have bad luck when it comes to owning them, I appreciate gardens but hate to garden, mustard yellow is one of my favorite colors, I am basically a shy person but I can hide it well, I am legally blind in my left eye, I would like to have a gypsy wagon, I do henna tattoos, I have lived in a house with ghosts, I used to catch & collect dragonflies when I was a kid, my friends and family call me Jana.
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