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Friday, July 12, 2013

Farmers Market #4



Farmers Market #4

6x6in  oil on canvas panel  $100.

The colors are so amazing at these markets. Here are
Grapes, bananas, strawberries, limes and mangoes. WOW!

Artist Note.

No people in this one. Just a straight on view of fruit.
After the previous complex compositions - this was easy.
Worked on the weigh scale today. NOT so easy!

20 comments:

  1. I love this one. The squares and the colors give a lovely abstract feeling. I still got the the fruity feeling with the highlights that gives them volume. My favorite so far.

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    1. I can see why you like it, Roger. Any time an artist can zoom in on a subject it gives it a different power. I have to be careful with highlights - they can give them a plastic feel. Looks effective though so it is a deliberate decision of how naturalistic do I want the appearance to be.
      Your new rose painting has a wonderful color scheme. Love it.

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  2. Well this is my kind of painting all spaces positive, over all pattern. Very nice, makes me want to go to the market with my camera. Great colors.

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    1. Nice to hear from you. Thanks. Pleased you like this one.
      I enjoyed your post on your two completely different paintings.

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  3. BEAUTIFUL painting, Julie!! Last year, I went out East to a market which was full of fruit and vegetables...I still have those photos. They looked so challenging after seeing them again but you've inspired me to at least try...I love all the gorgeous colors in this piece.!

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    1. Would love to see you paint the market. I know what a fabulous job you would do with your magic pastels.

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    1. They do done they and they were!
      Still no painting from you Helen. Can't wait.
      It always takes me a couple of days to get back into the flow with paint after I have been away from it. Does it for you too?

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  5. Love the format Julie! It has an abstract look, very pleasing to the eye....and it has all the fruit I love too.

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    1. Thanks Karen. I do appreciate your viewpoint. It does have a strong abstract base. Just like your painting of the Tamarillos.

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  6. There is no way in God's green and vegetable earth I would even BEGIN to know how go about painting this. You are so gifted dear Julie.

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    1. Laughing at your green and vegetable earth...really good one, dear Lisa, but anyone who can pattern a dress, carpet, walls and paint a chandelier like you can would be great at a farmers market.

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  7. Love this colorful and abstract composition!

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    1. Thanks Bruce. And I like the glowing color in your new post.

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  8. It looks scrumptious!! Love that green and purple.

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    1. I thank you, Sherry, and scrumptious is a great word.
      How about that good looking husband of yours. If there was anything else on your blog I cannot remember it.

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  9. I'm with Roger on this one. All the shapes and different masses are really pleasing and abstracted in a great way. The colors are lovely also-nice and clean.

    This is shaping up to be a good series for sure. We are so lucky here in parts of CA to have such ready access to these fruits and vegetables. Really, very, very fortunate.

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  10. You are lucky. I can see why everyone loves to live there.
    Your new painting of the two girls is amazingly good.

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  11. Happy Sunday, dear Julie. I enjoy Your painting so full of light as it must be the light where you live! Here, only in a rare day of sunshine and wind, no clouds, you may see these colors ... the hills of the wine, the plain with rice paddies, always have a thin haze that prevents the colors to be so alive.
    For this reason,I guess, the vegetables here born less colored ...

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  12. WOW! The color is so saturated and there's so much activity packed into this little area. When I enlarge it, I can see how selective you were with detail and how abstractly you treated the subject. Gorgeous effects!

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Cheers,
Julie