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Henrietta Blackmon grew up in a family of artistic people. As a young child, she often painted and saw herself as an adult artist. In college, she took a more practical path and graduated from Florida State University with a degree in elementary education. She went on to teach special education classes before becoming the mayor of Camden. When Henrietta decided to enhance her art skills, she took numerous art classes at Auburn University in Montgomery. She also studied with water colorists Paul Tate and Richard Mills.
Henrietta loves the transparent and light, airy beauty that comes from watercolor paintings. She uses wet on wet techniques for layering and then moves to wet on dry for details and more layering effects. Henrietta is drawn to blues, greens, aquas, and pinks for her color palette and enjoys the contrasts of light and dark. She paints her environment, incorporating architectural painting with florals and woodland scenes. Henrietta plans to move into the looser forms and strokes associated with abstract watercolor painting.
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