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Sharing the lessons I teach at the Artist Guild and the personal discoveries in my art.

Friday, May 18, 2012

Falling Out



Falling Out.

6x8in  oil on canvas board   100.

On these small pieces I enjoy trying to paint something
challenging so I thought I would like to paint the lemons
with back lighting.
After painting and studying lemons in this series
my goal is to paint them from my imagination.


Artist Note

It was all a struggle on this piece. I had a different surface
to work on and I found it made a big difference. It was much
more difficult to achieve what I was after.
This is a Raymar, medium tooth, landscape cotton.
Great for landscapes but pretty tough for a fracturing technique.
That's the way I find out these things...the hard way!

Seriously,
I almost put a headstone in with the title, Lemons - R.I.P.



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15 comments:

  1. Beautiful! I just love your paintings.

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    1. Thank you, Sue. I thought your dog was great but then I saw the cat below on your blog and wow...such a great painting.

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  2. I always enjoy your paintings. You are very gifted.

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    1. What a lovely complement, thank you, Aase.
      Your work has a beautiful quality of light.

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  3. Amazing work. I love your use of the bright blue on the shadow side of the lemons. In my humble opinion things learnt the hard way are less easily forgotten :)
    Best wishes,

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    1. You are correct and the painting I did today has used the lesson very well...I think. I do appreciate you commenting, Vinayak

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  4. this is beautiful and the fracturing is lovely! I love the shape of lemons - you captured them in a great way!

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  5. Love your fracturing technique, Julie! I sometimes use a painting knife and paint shaper. Will have to add your tool to my arsenal soon. Thanks for sharing!
    Your lemon painting is wonderful!

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    1. Nice of you to comment, Dean. Glad you like the fracturing.

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  6. I agree with Vinayak this is amazing work. It's interesting and refreshing. I never get tired of looking at your paintings! It's always so wonderful to open my email and have one of your paintings greet me for the day!

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    1. You have no idea how much your complement means to me. Thank you, T.J.

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  7. Your use of color is so beautiful, Julie.! I can't tell you enough..how I love this fracturing technique.

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    1. Thanks Hilda. I am liking it too. Maybe because it holds my attention and I have to put effort into it.

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  8. Color palette like from van Gogh.
    And a great light!

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Cheers,
Julie