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Marge Brandt is a watercolorist and award winner from wapakoneta, Ohio. She learned acrylics in 1968 when she took her first class at the local high school. "I'm doing my own thing and having fun with it," she says.
Marge Brandt is a watercolorist and award winner from wapakoneta, Ohio. She learned acrylics in 1968 when she took her first class at the local high school. "I'm doing my own thing and having fun with it," she says.
Marge Brandt is a watercolorist and award winner from wapakoneta, Ohio. She learned acrylics in 1968 when she took her first class at the local high school. "I'm doing my own thing and having fun with it," she says.
Marge Brandt Cover Section Artist “Peonies & Old Lace” watercolor he is no longer in the box The moon pours over a low set of trees as you feel yourself trudging through thick white snow to either the barn that sits off to your left or to the two-story white house that glistens against the shadow of trees Further ahead. The night is so clear you can see the Heavens above and you wrap your coat more tightly sensing the crisp air of a country night. With a chill you blink and realize that Marge Brandt has transported you into a painting of magical proportions with “Supper Time.” These are the paintings, for which Marge Brandt, watercolorist and award winner from Wapakoneta, Ohio has been known, since she started with wonderful bleeding colors in 1972. Beautiful, soft realistic landscapes and flowers dot the walls of art enthusiasts. Now she is not only shocking the local art community, but also others beyond her Buckeye Acrylic 30” x 48”
roots with bold, bright colors of acrylic paint that
zing across the canvas with minds all of their own, and she loves every minute of it. Color splashes across a 30x48 piece of canvas of rough edges with very little thought of borders “Tunnels & Turnpikes”
and boundaries. She took her own advice and
decided to “get out of the box” with large acrylic abstract paintings.
† “I’m doing my own thing and having fun with it.”
She is no stranger to the acrylic. fancy, however sometimes the Mucho” {Kiss me a lot} and She learned acrylics in 1968 when inspiration is based on titles. “In every “Solamente Una vez” {You belong to she took her first class at the local high painting I also weave in a cross,” says my heart.} Her favorite title needing no school. She then would travel 62 artist Brandt. translation is “Kiss Me Quick and miles, 1 day a week for 50 weeks to Marge holds firmly a belief that Don’t Slobber.” Springfield to learn composition and naming a painting is almost as With bold colorful paintings and design by Betty Gnagi. She learned important as the painting itself. She titles that inspire the imagination, the art of pouring with watercolors realized how important titles were to Marge is definitely “I’m doing my own from Steve Blackburn and painting of art when she first started showing her thing and having fun with it.” Her lace with Arleta Peck. She gave back work. She laughingly tells of her first paintings can be found at local art to the community by opening up her own studio in her home and gave classes for several years. From these and many others she attributes her knowledge and some of her success. She lovingly proclaims that her biggest fan and worst critic is her husband Bob of 59 years. Through all the long years, Marge’s styles of painting, though different have a commonality, being: Color. With watercolors she loves to watch the colors bleed into each other making use “Besame Mucho” Acrylic 30” x 40” of their shadows and light on the palette. Acrylics work show that occurred in a chicken shows in Wapakoneta, a city noted with a will all their own. She never house. She had a painting with a for the home of the Neil Armstrong Air knows what to do until she sees the barn that had a lane that went and Space Museum, and the colors. She loves to pour the colors towards the back of the landscape Riverside Art Center where she is onto the canvas, sometimes mix with and disappeared. A wife mentioned President. Other places to catch her water and then have a cup of coffee to her husband that it looked like the work are in Florida with her oldest as the colors mix, separate, and meld place they use to go to and neck. daughter Linda Brandt, impressionist into each other. She proceeds to set When they left she quickly titled it, artist and author and in California up and have the colors speak to her. “The End of Lovers Lane” - and it sold with her youngest son David, an Inspiration from these new to the next couple. Her favorite abstract artist. paintings comes in many forms: painting is titled, “Back in Puddle of To view a full range of this artist’s Christian motifs, songs, magazine Water.” Her new abstract series is a works, you can email Marge at pictures, or whatever catches her love series with titles, “Besame wapakartist@yahoo.com †