Jimmie Lee Sudduth (1910-2007) was one of America’s most well known outsider artists.  He lived in Fayette, Alabama.  He was self-taught and painted nearly his entire life.  Sudduth originally painted with his fingers only, “because they never wear out.”  He made his own paint with mud, adding juice from sweet potato vines, berries and grasses or house paint to give the mud color.  He mixed the concoction with sugar water or molasses to “make it stick.”  Sudduth’s paintings can be whimsical, like “Dancing Lady,” or poignant, as is “Cotton Pickers.”