nicole brisco

New Work After Babies

2011-07-10T12:32:00.001-07:00

Last Piece Before Babies

2010-06-06T13:27:00.000-07:00

Wanted one painting of me pregnant...so glad I was able to complete it before the babies arrived. Tittled "Over My Horizon", Mixed Media

2009-11-18T18:13:00.000-08:00

2009-11-10T14:38:00.000-08:00

Artchurch Exhibition

2009-11-10T14:08:00.001-08:00

The Artchurch Studio

2009-10-10T01:57:00.000-07:00

Who: Nicole Brisco
What: Art Exhibition "Revelations"
When: Gallery Walk November 6, 2009 5-9 runs through the month
Where: The Artchurch Studio. Hot Springs www.artchurch.org
Why: Run out of room at the house :)

Women For Texas A&M Donation

2009-08-16T10:46:00.000-07:00

MICA #3

2009-07-05T17:11:00.001-07:00

More MICA Work

2009-07-05T16:57:00.001-07:00

MICA...first 3 days!!!

2009-06-25T18:54:00.001-07:00

Gray Street

2009-06-14T10:03:00.000-07:00

a new piece

2009-06-14T10:00:00.001-07:00

About time.

2009-06-14T09:48:00.000-07:00

a little something

2008-09-25T15:58:00.000-07:00

a little mixed media drawing i created today....it felt good. it was a quick piece, about 45 minutes. i love doing work quickly....

a few sleeping souls

2008-09-22T16:47:00.000-07:00

i have not had much time to do art since school started but i have been working in my sketchbook....my beloved sketchbook. here are a few sleeping souls on board american airlines....in a way i feel like i am intruding in their lives....i just can not help myself. i have to work very quickly ...you never know when turbulence is going to hit and your model moves!!!

two of a kind

2008-09-02T17:12:00.000-07:00

well....it is that time of the years....donate, donate, donate.....between the charities i am not sure if i give more away or sell more....i guess either way they are going to a new home. this piece was made for women for texas a & m....i am supposed to go to some fancy shindig on saturday...they will action these two pieces as a pair. i am not totally thrilled by them but accept them!!!!
i guess we will see how they do on monday.
i plan on working this week so hopefully i will have something new to post soon....i promise no rat skulls.

sketchbook 4

2008-08-23T19:44:00.001-07:00

almost done

sketchbook 3

2008-08-23T19:29:00.000-07:00

i started a new sketchbook about a month ago.....we will see how it goes

sketchbooks 2

2008-08-23T19:14:00.000-07:00

i will have to add 5 at a time...hope you enjoy. i truly do love drawing in my sketchbook..no pressure

sketchbooks

2008-08-23T19:00:00.000-07:00

i have so many....i am revisiting, boy how times change.

9 months

2008-08-19T18:36:00.000-07:00

sent with the other and also in the collection of mrs. goerske. it was my first piece using negative space. after re-looking at this piece for the first time in 3 years i think i might revisit the idea. i like the simplicity.

another piece

2008-08-19T18:33:00.001-07:00

my first emailed pieces. as you read i am trying to locate work that i have sold in the past. this was a piece that i sold about 3 years ago. it was my first piece with the dressform. it is much larger than the other....oh about 4 feet on masonite. it hung in a show at trahc and the osbourne development. collection of cynthia goerske

opening a can of worms

2008-08-12T11:49:00.000-07:00

ok....i said i was not going to start posting sketchbooks....as many of you know i am a devote sketchbooker.....anyway as i was looking through pictures, i found my venice sketchbook....so i will post a few and then take pictures of my new ones and post later.....i will see what the comments tell me to do.

going backward

2008-08-12T11:24:00.000-07:00

notice these works are going backward....oldest works....i started with my newest pieces but it has been fun to archive my work. so here was my first piece...it won best of show...i do still like it, but don't like to look at it....it is funny how so many people say they love making art....i am actually the opposite....making art is a burden...a necessary burden for me....like air, just a part of life...

just me

2008-08-12T11:19:00.000-07:00

my first self portrait....i kept this one...once again notice the glasses. maybe my 3rd self portrait in my life i will do without the glasses.....

from the heart

2008-08-12T11:06:00.000-07:00

my signature piece for the heart ball...it was first in the bridge series. it was auctioned off. collection of Robin Court.

part of the bridge series

2008-08-12T10:53:00.000-07:00

this is large....it was a commission. i usually don't care for commissions, it is hard to please someone without them seeing it first. it was done on poplar, mixed media. It is a part of the bridge series i started with the heartball signature series. collections of russell and kathi sapaugh.

a child like faith

2008-08-12T09:36:00.000-07:00

a small series i did.....based on a song that i love. i rarely work small....but i should more often because i enjoy it.

stupid flash

2008-08-12T09:12:00.000-07:00

i could not bring myself to take these out of the frame so you will each recieve a special gift....a small bright light. this was a series of 6 dress forms. i still love the dress form but have to resist doing it because it is too comfortable.

the figure

2008-08-12T09:08:00.000-07:00

a quick sketch....it stood out so i kept it

it made me happy

2008-08-12T09:05:00.000-07:00

it made me happy....so i painted it...

a keeper

2008-08-12T08:54:00.000-07:00

i usually don't have attachment to pieces....but this paperdoll piece that i created several years ago i have not been able to sell....don't want to. it has an innocence and brings back memories...it also addresses the issues that women deal with....it almost has a subversive quality. it is on a masonite cradle....i like to collage on this.

traditional

2008-08-12T08:48:00.000-07:00

sometimes it is nice to just go for it.....i usually don't paint with oils on paper but i thought why not.....this inspired me to do a plein aire painting....they say when you paint others their characteristics take on yours....i think i a way she looks like me. this painting has no meaning....it was just because.

me...in glasses

2008-08-12T08:25:00.000-07:00

i am not sure why but when i do a self portrait i always have my glasses on.....mind you i never wear them in public. this is very large....about 5 feet...i work large often.

inspired

2008-08-12T08:09:00.000-07:00

inspired by venice.....and my sketchbook. this piece is quite large, mixed media, acrylic, on raw canvas. i am still partial to this one, i will give it a little time and i am sure that will change.

from the ukraine

2008-08-12T07:46:00.000-07:00

this was a very large painting of a former student of mine, alla. this is one of those paintings that i will post but not look at....it is the smallest things in a painting that will keep its creator from wanting to revisit it. it is suspended in a frame that i think makes the piece but i could not crop it with the frame in it. this work was exhibited and won an award....can't quite remember what it was.

a study

2008-08-12T07:43:00.000-07:00

a study. normally i don't think they can stand alone but this one could. an object with human qualities, a certain sensitivity. collection of dan and cary carson

the simple things

2008-08-12T07:31:00.000-07:00

at saic i completed something like 30 paintings in 2 weeks.....it was insane. during my lunches i would also paint. that day i brought my dress and hung it up and decided to paint it in oil life size....ok maybe a little larger. i loved the feeling it gave, it took on its own personality. as i was painting i got very frustrated and the professor came around and asked me if i was trying to paint a photograph....i said "no but the pattern is overwhelming", he told me to put the dress away and paint how i felt about the dress.....i did and it changed my life. it is one of the best art lessons i have ever learned. collection of rachel freeman

the series

2008-08-12T07:24:00.000-07:00

birds have been a consistant theme in my work. this is done on masonite, mixed media, and acrylic. it is interesting going back through old work. collection of lynell westerman

going back

2008-08-12T07:15:00.000-07:00

this is an old piece...but i look back and i still like it....i don't say that often about my work....most artists don't want to look at their work after it is made.

suspended series

2008-08-12T07:03:00.000-07:00

this was a series done at the art institute of chicago in the summer of 2006. it changed the direction of my work. the frame became a part of the art work. my work is no longer so literal but i can begin to see the transition. collection of robert and cindy holmes

my studio

2008-08-11T18:48:00.001-07:00

a bunch of art.....before i cleaned my studio up.....

fly away home

2008-08-11T18:30:00.000-07:00

my mom's critiques are based on if she thinks the piece is pretty or not. obviously this one did not fall into that category. it is called "fly away home". it is smaller than i normally work, very intimate. it is based on the children poem ladybug ladybug, note the phrase at the bottom (your house is on fire and your children will burn)....that was the point where my mom said ohhhhh, i don't like that one. i love the political statement that is made, there is something so innocent about a child. it is tough to see in the image but there is a photo of a child in the keyhole....I began painting the houses on stilts and they took on a bomb like quality.....i will let you interpret it from there.

off beat for even me

2008-08-11T18:23:00.000-07:00

you don't want to know what this is made of......ok rat skulls, don't ask. i actually really love this piece because it frees me from expectation. it is called "can you hear the bombs sing"....an obviously political piece. the work is mounted in antique science display boxes. a piece expected not to ever sell....but that is ok with me.

new work

2008-08-11T18:16:00.000-07:00

a new work called industrialnation. it is large scale and on poplar wood.

the day the words were lost

2008-08-11T18:08:00.001-07:00

a work created about my mom's stroke. sold but i don't know to who yet...i just saw a red dot.

another try

2008-08-11T17:31:00.000-07:00

collection of fbc texarkana

still learning

2008-08-11T17:28:00.001-07:00

i am not much of a blogger. i chose this site to post artwork and artist that inspire me. we will see how it goes. My exhibit at Cook Gallery. almost all of my work from this show sold...including the sculpture. collection of cynthia gorske

i saw it a differnt way

2008-08-11T16:30:00.000-07:00

this was the only piece that was not for sale at the exhibition.....i gave in and sold it. i love it. it was the first piece i made where i decided not to care about what people thought.....i figured if i have not proven myself by now...i never well.....it is time to let go and expose vulnerability in my work...i did and it took me down a new path in artmaking. collection of angela melde.