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

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Lily Pond #3



Lily Pond #3
6x6in Oil on canvas $110.
Purchase HERE

Artist Note.
The difference a bright blue
sky and sunshine makes
to color is pretty well amazing.
This is 4pm... afternoon sun..

Enjoy a fun Labor Day!



20 comments:

  1. This is done with LOVE! It is so lively and Happy!
    Have a GOOD Holiday!

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    1. YOu are so right, Sue. I did relate with great pleasure to seeing the waterlilies;.
      Hard not to do them like Monet.
      Your paintings for the challenge amaze me with their beautiful colors and complexity. Do you sleep!


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  2. Everywhere that you look, you've put just the right stroke and color! This could have been just a static pond too but I see lots of lovely movement and flow. Very pretty!

    And you are right for sure! The light makes such a big difference to everything:)

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    1. Thanks so much, Libby.
      Your post on your work process was fascinating. I see a big spurt ahead. When any of us artists feel dissatisfaction with our work when it used to excite us, usually means a change is ahead. I will be happily anticipating as I follow your blog.

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  3. It both wakes things up and then diffuses them. Kind of confusing but that is my impression. Beautiful.

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    1. Thanks, Helen. Not confusing to me at all.
      LOVE your new shed painting. best one yet!

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  4. Love the brushwork on this one Julie!!!

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    1. Thanks KIm. How neat you have a waterlily on your post too. The shadows in the petals are so beautiful.

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  5. great brushwork, especially the strokes going in flowing water movement :)

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    1. Glad you like it - thanks.
      Good to see your scar looking vastly improved. Obviously no way they can keep a good artist down!

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  6. Beautifully done! Can't imagine any better format (square) than what you've chosen here!

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    1. Nice thing to say - thanks Carol.
      Hope you enjoy the holiday.

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  7. I love waterlilies and yours are beautiful Julie! So delicate...the composition is great too.

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    1. Thanks Karen - I enjoyed going through your blog and saw your gorgeous waterlilies. Your post on the art influences was great too.
      the rooster is a stunner!

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  8. This really made me smile. Lovely!!!

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    1. Nice - nice to smile.
      Your drawings are really neat. I bet you get a good grade.

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  9. This lily pond is absolutely beautiful Julie! We needed to buy food today for our koi's and I thought of your last painting and how amazing you paint them! I took so many photos of the koi's they have ....some so beautiful....one was $6500. ...imagine!!?
    I hope you paint more....!

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    1. YOU have your own Koi pond? How lucky is that! I am going to paint some more because I am so enamored with them. My beta fish does the same thing for me. It is like a mediation watching fish swim.
      I blinked at the price tag for one special Koi. What was so special I wonder. Was it huge?

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    2. Julie, it was very big and the colors were brilliant...the name of the fish was a Showa! When you sit in front of a pond it is SO relaxing...just listening to the sound of the small waterfall we have for them is therapeutic..

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  10. This is gorgeous Julie! I love those salmon colours next to the pale blues and all the luscious brush strokes! Beautiful! Love the previous one with the Koi too! It reminds me that I took some photos of a glorious pond of Koi in Singapore in the hope of painting from it sometime down the track. They are such pretty fish.

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Cheers,
Julie