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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

It rained last night and all day today. My rain gauge shows 4.75 inches so far just today and the rain is still pouring! Yesterday morning we met for plein air painting at Stephanie Morris' place in Belle Fontaine, but it was so cold, damp and windy that we ended up painting inside looking out. Last night I spent some time at the Cathedral Square Gallery for the December LODA artwalk before heading to a Christmas party with my former office friends. Then today was my work day at the gallery. I promised to post the other mini painting I completed which is hanging at the gallery. This is a goat I photographed at the Baldwin County fair a couple of years ago. This is 5 in. x 5 in. acrylic on panel board. I sketched some Llamas for another mini painting while in the gallery and hope to finish painting it in the next couple of days. These are fun because they are fast to paint. Hope you all are staying dry!

3 comments:

Jami Buck said...: I'm lovin the Llama; December 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM
christian and amanda said...: SOLD!!!!! I love this goat!!! He reminds me of the goat we had in WV for a while, Bart. Is it for sale?? I love the purple, too!!!; December 30, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Unknown said...: I'm having fun exploring your blog. I love the goat...we are on the same wavelength with animals as a preferred subject.; January 3, 2010 at 4:11 PM

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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).

Joanne Brandt Art Space

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

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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)

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Cows at the Graham Ranchette (1996)

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