Artist In Residence 2004
Wildflowers in Watercolor
In August, Marilynn Brandenburger was the GLC's Artist in Residence at the Conservancy’s Gratiot Lake Preserve. Marilynn is an accomplished botanical illustrator and landscape painter with many years of teaching experience. In her two day class, Wildflowers in Watercolor, participants learned about paint, paper, and brushes; how to draw flowers; basic watercolor techniques and color mixing. They also took home their botanical paintings!
Marilynn also displayed her work and demonstrated painting techniques at the Conservancy's open house in August. (See slides of artists at work at open house.)
(To see larger versions of the smaller photos below, click on the photo.)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Marilynn Brandenburger has been painting and exhibiting professionally for more than twenty-five years. Awards and recognitions include grants from private and public foundations, appointments as Artist-in-Residence in national and state parks, including Isle Royale National Park. Her work is in collections throughout the U.S. Marilynn’s work has been featured in national newspaper and magazine articles and in two books: The Best of Colored Pencil 5 and The Island Within Us. She has also illustrated three books.
Marilynn’s images come from 20 years of hiking, sketching, and photographing
the beauty of nature throughout the U.S. Her work generally takes two forms: medium to large-scale landscape paintings and small intimate studies of nature’s detail. She also paints still life, using objects from her personal collections, or, most recently, objects in artists’ studios. A native of the Midwest, Marilynn has lived in the South for more than thirty years.
She holds a Bachelors degree in anthropology from Tulane University and a Masters degree in art education from Florida Atlantic University, and she is a graduate of Harvard’s Institute for the Management of Lifelong Education. Marilynn also teaches drawing and painting to adults in Atlanta and the Southeast.
