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Mack Brislawn

Oil Painting

Alison

.44 Magnum
14 x 26, $700

Utah Desert,  SOLD

Sagebrush Sunset

Shadows on the Mesas

Snow and Sky

 
Snowy Range Summer

 
South of Carmel

Territorial Prison

Devils Tower Rising Red
14 x 18, $550

The D Butte--Snow Patches
20x 30, $700

Talus Slopes
12 x 16, $475

Dry Wash East of Laramie
24 x 36, $775

Christmas Time In Austria
5x7,  $700

Devils Tower from the Southwest
$700

Lake Marie
9 x 12, $350

Surf At Big Sur
5 x 7, $125

Badlands
11 x 15, $450

The Old D Range
16 x 22, $700

 More of Mr. Brislawn's art:   SOFA www.reocities.com/soho/rooftop/3677/sofaindex.html 

Fossil Butte Runoff, 11 x 14,  SOLD

Mack Brislawn

Bio artist statement

As well as portraiture and academic figure drawing in charcoal, my interest  is contemporary western landscape. I grew up on a pioneer homestead west of Devil's Tower and I learned to love the arid beauty there. I use oils and watercolor to express the mood of the hills and prairie, the beauty and color in the particular and commonplace landscape... hopefully,  lifting it to the realm of the ideal and universal.

Laramie River Gold
sold 10 x 13, $400

Art allows me to get closer to the land and earth, closer to whatever or whomever I paint. I strive for my work to have the tactile quality and brute energy of nature herself. My paintings are of the present, but draw nourishment from the past. I don't paint by formulas, so each piece is different. But since each canvas is a new trial, each canvas is also an independent investigation which I believe is necessary for the making of art worth serious attention.

To paraphrase the I Ching, "The wind blows over the hills and stirs the grass. Thus, the visible effects of the invisible are manifested." The task of the artist is to make visible forces and energies that are invisible.

Residing in Laramie, WY, Brislawn likes traveling through the Western states and Europe , using oils and watercolor to express the mood of the hills and prairie, the beauty and color in the ordinary, commonplace landscape - to recreate not a scene but the feeling of experiencing that space.

Education: M.A. in Painting from the University of Wyoming
The Rocky Mountain School of Art, Denver, CO
Creighton University, Omaha, NE
Scottsdale Artist's School, Color Theory with Daniel Howe
Workshops with various artists

April  Beth 7 x 10, $125

©Mack Brislawn/ Artist of the Northern Front, Laramie Wyoming                 

Links:     More of Mr. Brislawn's art:   SOFA www.reocities.com/soho/rooftop/3677/sofaindex.html 

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