Poppies in the garden

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I'm so glad you have tried a palette knife, it's great to use and the result is often succesful like here now. Good, strong colours and the poppies look great. Well done Julie!

Posted by Satu Vartiainen on Wed 20 Jun 19:36:14

I agree with the measures! Let us have metric sizes!!!

Posted by Satu Vartiainen on Wed 20 Jun 19:38:57

Away with you and your metric sizes! I was taught in feet, inches, yards, miles - and just can't visualize metric measurements at all, nor yet convert them.... It's me age, you see............ Palette/painting knives are very liberating, and offer so many possibilities - Abraham Fisher's wonderful paintings, the paintings of the late R O Dunlop RA (which you seldom see these days), and, of course, yours! Lovely, juicy reds.

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Wed 20 Jun 20:54:29

I really like this painting Julie- it jumps out at you from the gallery. You have a great eye for colours. Still working on that photoshopping !

Posted by Beverley James on Wed 20 Jun 21:07:46

I really like this painting Julie- it jumps out at you from the gallery. You have a great eye for colours. I'm still working on that photoshopping !

Posted by Beverley James on Wed 20 Jun 21:07:59

I agree with Beverley, it jumps out at you from the gallery, a lovely painting

Posted by Glennis Weston on Thu 21 Jun 07:58:21

Really like this Julie, strong darks and beautiful bright colours. I keep thinking about having a go with knives...bought them, just haven't tried them yet!!

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Thu 21 Jun 12:25:42

Lovely colours and contrast.

Posted by Mary-Jane Morris on Thu 21 Jun 19:24:09

I really like this Julie, I must try painting with a palette knife too, I'm sure it's quite liberating!

Posted by Christine Davies on Fri 22 Jun 07:30:57

Thank you all for your kind and encouraging comments. I really enjoyed painting this, and have also completed another one that I will post in the next few days,

Posted by Julie Bosley on Mon 25 Jun 22:10:32

Hang on Studio Wall

31/03/2015

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This is my first real attempt at using a palette knife and I really enjoyed the experience and hope to do some more. I took a photograph of the poppies before one of the many rainstorms wrecked them! Since photographing this painting I have added a little more yellow/orange just below and to the left of the poppy in the middle, which has created more of a flow through the painting It measures 16"x12". Why don't materials manufacturers make everything in metric sizes??

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Julie Bosley

I drifted into painting following four years of City and Guilds creative Embroidery where I found I was enjoying the back-up art work almost more than the embroidery. I did an A level in art and design in 2006, and then joined a life painting class. For the last three years I have belonged to a…

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