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Watercolorist Clint<br />
Herring captures<br />
Southern scenes in<br />
figurative and architectural realism,<br />
blending shadows and light while<br />
emitting raw emotion. The East<br />
Alabama native’s work has been<br />
featured throughout the United<br />
States, but his barefoot childhood<br />
pulls him South. Clint recently<br />
embarked on an ambitious artistic<br />
journey exploring Delta Blues<br />
musicians in a new book set for a<br />
<strong>2023</strong> completion.<br />
Copyright <strong>2023</strong> Clint Herring<br />
Copyright <strong>2023</strong> Clint Herring<br />
“This casebound book will be nearly 300<br />
pages and will feature over 70 portraits and<br />
conceptual works,” says Clint. “These paintings<br />
are of bluesmen of notoriety, legends of the<br />
past and various blues icons that have greatly<br />
been influenced by the blues from the Delta of<br />
Mississippi.”<br />
Clint grew up in a country setting in the Dixie<br />
Community, located near Marvyn. His paternal<br />
grandfather, who was a farmer, lived next<br />
door, and his mother’s family were all farmers.<br />
“I grew up in a lot of dirt,” he says, remembering<br />
childhood days. He also sketched pictures a<br />
great deal at an early age, with many based on<br />
his mother’s stories.<br />
“I can remember in the first-grade drawing<br />
Rudolph with ornaments hanging off his antlers<br />
at Christmas,” Clint says. “The kids in the<br />
class wanted me to draw one for them. I told<br />
them I would for a quarter. Those were my first<br />
art sales.”<br />
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