One Month of Painting Lessons

Join Shreveport Artist Robin Clawson for 4 painting lessons!

• Includes all materials

Robin Johnson Clawson earned her BFA degree, magna cum laude, from the Louisiana State University School of Environmental Design in 1972. She is originally from Baton Rouge. She has lived in Shreveport, Louisiana, since 1977, following a two-and-a-half year stay in Washington, D.C., where she was secretary for correspondence to the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. She was the first Director of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council before retiring for a time to stay at home with her son, Johnson.

Robin was the co-owner of Erie Street Company-a painted clothing and textile manufacturer-for eight years before beginning to do portraiture full time in 1994. She teaches private, beginner painting classes in Shreveport and is available to conduct weekend workshops. She also tutors serious art students and assists them with portfolios preparatory to college application.

Her portraits depict subjects of all ages and are done in oil pastel and pencil on paper. Each piece emphasizes a natural pose, usually in a botanical setting, and is an integrated design in the manner of a genre painting.