Joanne Brandt Art Space: The Mama Lisas

Monday, May 9, 2011

The Mama Lisas - Young at Art

Somehow I missed the entire month of April! I know I have been to several Figure Group sessions in the interim, and will post some of those experimental drawings here soon. But the major thing I've been working on is to complete a large painting for a show during the month of May. My painting group, the Mama Lisas, is having a group show at the downtown Mobile Arts Council this month. We call it The Mama Lisas - Young at Art; which is a pun on us being eight "older" women who are emerging artists in the local art community. Well, some of us are emerging, anyway.

The show will hang at Mobile Arts Council, in the Green Room, from May 9 through May 27. The opening reception is this Friday, May 13th, 6-9 PM. Please come on out to see us and our art! Here is a photo of our group.Gail Bramer, Joanne Brandt, Janie Brown, Kathy Friedline, Karen McGahagin, Claire Noojin, and Jane Sawyer.

Front: Carolyn Greene, Gail Bramer, Karen McGahagin
Back: Joanne Brandt (me), Jane Sawyer, Kathy Friedline, Claire Noojin, & Janie Brown

We've been painting together for several years, and providing inspiration and moral support to each other along the way. I like to think there is a certain synergy to having other artist friends to encourage you to keep working, following your dreams, and to progress and grow in your art. And thanks also to the Mobile Arts Council for giving us this opportunity to share our art!

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Nova Scotia Cow No. 2 - " Anabel"

This is the last cow portrait I completed for the Divine Bovines show. It is also a large painting (36 in. x 48 in.). Actually this canvas was originally purchased for the Sweet Home Farm Bull, but I found that it was not long enough for the bull - therefore, I had to do another cow portrait in order for this canvas not to go to waste! Actually, this is one of my favorites. I was able to complete Anabel pretty quickly for me (3 to 4 weeks). This acrylic painting was finished in February 2009 for the Divine Bovines show. I really love the goldenrod background (Yellow oxide, which was a new pigment for me) against the black and white cow. Again, very little true white and no black on this cow. My favorite parts are the udder and the swollen veins, since she looks like she really needs to be milked. I also had fun with the grass.

Sweet Home Cheese Farm Bull

This is the first large cow portrait (36 in x 60 in., acrylic on canvas) I have attempted. I took a photo of this bull when my family went to visit the Sweet Home Cheese Farm near Elberta in south Baldwin County, AL, This place makes wonderful boutique cheese. My concept was to paint a white cow with back-lighting, so there would be no white paint on this cow. Because it is a bull, I thought the red background would be an effective statement. Although this is a "realistic" portrait, I really love the abstract quality of the colors and shadows on the body of the bull. I finished this painting in early February 2009, just in time for the Divine Bovines: The Cow as Art exhibition.

Cows at the Graham Ranchette (1996)

This is my second painting of cows in watercolor. I entered this in one of the Mobile Art Association shows which hung at Mobile Museum of Art, and the judge liked the movement captured in this painting. Note that the next cow painting I attempted was in 2006 (10 years later). I was working fulltime and was not a very productive painter. My first painting of cows was also a watercolor, which was exhibited in a Bel Air Mall shop window (MAA Exhibition). It sold, so I no longer have a copy to display (but was able to scan in a photo for documentation purposes, as shown in the photo below).

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Monday, May 9, 2011

The Mama Lisas - Young at Art

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Nova Scotia Cow No. 2 - " Anabel"

Sweet Home Cheese Farm Bull

Nova Scotia Cow No. 1 - "Maggie" (2008)

PEI Cow No. 2 - "Blossom" (2007)

PEI Cow No. 1 - "Sweet Pea" (2006)

Cow Threesome

Cows at the Graham Ranchette (1996)

Cows on the Beach (1990-ish)