Cajun Love Song

ANIMATION CELL STUDIES

This gallery of images displays my visual research in developing animation cells based on AI images, and hand-painted watercolors.  

Bayou LaFourche, Donaldsonville, Louisiana 1850

Live Oaks and Spanish Moss | Bayou Lafourche, Donalsdonville, Louisiana ca.1836

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[AI-created visual research]   My great great grandparents in Donaldsonville, LA. ca. 1850

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1836, Jacob Lemann, finds passage to New Orleans possibly as a butcher aboard the SS. MClellan.  He is depicted here having arrived at the Docks at Le Havre, France after traveling from Darmstadt in the State of Hesse what is now Germany. [AI in a watercolor style]

Horse and Buggy alongside Bayou Teche. [AI visual research]

young-marieMiriam (neè Marie) Estelle Berthelot, as a young woman. [digital painting]

Jacob Lemann, 1870

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Jacob Lemann, [digital portrait]

 

MARIE ADRIEN PERSAC

Marie Adriene Persac  [watercolor on paper]The painter Marie Adrien Persac is a highly educated French man and a fine artist, who cartographically mapped the Mississippi River and the adjacent large plantation homes as well as paint portraits of the houses in exchange for room and board. The animation will be narrated by Marie Adrien Persac  often considered as “Louisiana’s painter.”

These paintings below  also show my great great grandfather’s establishment of a mercantile business and later his son’s creation of a general merchandising store, B. Lemann and Bros in Donaldsonville, Louisiana on the Mississippi.  The intention is to show the industrious contributions of the outsider to the newly formed United States through the tumult and devastation of a civil war and the values and ethics that his faith had instilled in him.

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A watercolor from the AI source image [below] of Jacob making a deal in New Orleans

An AI image, created in the style of Edgar Degas’s painting  The Cotton Merchants depicting Jacob Lemann in his role of a “handelmann” (someone who survives by his connections and networks).

Jacob at 45 inspecting a wheelwright’s operation.

Jacob Lemann, middle aged, traveling transatlantic on the SS McLellan, bound for New Orleans from Le Havre, France. His networks  were both in the U.S. and Abroad.