tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78804353108466063302024-03-18T23:51:56.668-04:00Julie MesserschmidtStill Life Paintings in Oil - Notes from My StudioJulie Messerschmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17637394299021562443noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7880435310846606330.post-62253602499231821912015-11-03T16:13:00.000-05:002015-11-03T16:14:03.959-05:002016 Calendar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is that time of year again when we turn our thoughts to the holidays and the new year. My 2016 Desk Calendar is now available for preorder through November 20, with delivery the first week of December. The calendar features twelve of my favorite paintings done this year, and is printed in full color on glossy card stock. Pages measure 8.25" wide by 3.75" tall, with a fold out stand. A great gift idea! To preview the calendar and to purchase please click <a href="http://juliemesserschmidt.com/page/5802/2016-calendar" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Baseball Jar, Oil on Linen, 14x11</div>
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I love baseball and every summer I do a baseball themed painting. "Baseball Jar" is this year's effort. I have been painting Ball jars recently, which are fun to do, and the play on words inspired the idea. I am pleased to say it won an Honorable Mention award last week at the Moore County Arts Council annual Fine Arts Festival in Southern Pines, NC.</div>
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The painting below is currently on exhibit at the Footlight Players Theatre in Charleston as part of their French inspired theme for their production of the musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.</div>
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The Blue Ribbon, Oil on Linen, 18x32</div>
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Enjoy the rest of your summer!</div>
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Julie Messerschmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17637394299021562443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7880435310846606330.post-73046388840254544922015-03-30T17:03:00.000-04:002015-03-30T17:03:43.365-04:00Wedgewood And Wine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wedgewood and Wine, Oil on Linen, 22x30</div>
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I am pleased to announce that this painting will be among several that will now be shown at<a href="http://www.thegalleryonbroad.com/" target="_blank"> The Gallery on Broad,</a> 29 Broad Street in Charleston. I am very honored that owner, Kate Mullin, asked me to join her family of award winning artists, many of whom enjoy national reputations. It has been my goal to have my work represented by a Charleston gallery for some time, and I am so excited by this wonderful opportunity!</div>
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Julie Messerschmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17637394299021562443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7880435310846606330.post-91886156760774125162015-03-11T16:13:00.000-04:002015-03-11T16:13:02.395-04:00Chinese Red<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chinese Red, Oil on Linen, 26x30</div>
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I completed this painting recently, and want to thank my friend, Scotty, for loaning me her beautiful antique Chinese lunch basket. The basket is two hundred years old and so elegant. Imagine using it to carry your lunch! The intricacies of the detail were challenging to draw, but I hope I was able to capture its grace and magnificent red color. I am loving red these days!</div>
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In two weeks I will be heading back to Pinehurst, NC for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PalustrisArtsFestival" target="_blank">Palustris Arts Festival </a>March 26-29. The festival is a celebration of local and regional arts featuring music, dance, theater and visual art. Hollyhocks Art Gallery has been chosen as one of the featured venues, and is hosting a reception on Friday, March 27 from 5-7 pm. For those of you in the area, please stop by.</div>
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Julie Messerschmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17637394299021562443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7880435310846606330.post-20425404196521437982015-01-13T15:42:00.000-05:002015-01-13T15:46:34.683-05:00Red Apple Box<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Red Apple Box, Oil on Linen, 18x32</div>
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I hope 2015 is getting off to a great start for everyone! </div>
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I found this old red box in an antique store in the fall, and fell in love with the color and texture of the old wood showing through where the paint has worn off, and knew it would make a great still life "shelf". I had so much fun painting all the different reds. My paintings tend to be primarily in the gray tones, so to play around with so much color was a blast.<br />
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Julie Messerschmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17637394299021562443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7880435310846606330.post-17973200823803688302014-11-16T15:34:00.000-05:002014-11-16T15:34:04.327-05:00Bread<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bread, Oil on Linen, 24x30</div>
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What is more inviting than a table full of bread? I just love all of their various textures, shapes and colors. The copper pot and the old terra cotta olive jar added even more interesting textures to the mix. This was a fun painting to do, and the bonus was that my studio smelled like a bakery for two weeks!</div>
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I just returned from Pinehurst, NC where my work was featured in the annual holiday open house at Hollyhocks Art Gallery. We had a great turnout and another bonus, I sold two paintings!</div>
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Julie Messerschmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17637394299021562443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7880435310846606330.post-12715119534753731992014-10-14T14:14:00.001-04:002014-10-14T14:14:57.363-04:00Antipasto<br />
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This is one of my new paintings. I have been particularly inspired by food themes lately. This one kept making me hungry, though.</div>
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I am happy to announce that as of October 4, my work is now available through Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road in Pinehurst, NC. My thanks to owner, Jane Casnelli, who spotted my work at the Moore County Art Center show in August and invited me to be part of her gallery. Pinehurst is a lovely historic village in the Sandhills of North Carolina about and hour south of Raleigh and just over three hours north of Charleston. It is noted for its world class golf courses and for its elegant horse farms and equestrian activities. Some new themes might be forthcoming....</div>
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Julie Messerschmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17637394299021562443noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7880435310846606330.post-56162087290503364742014-09-23T16:19:00.000-04:002014-09-23T16:19:32.034-04:00Announcing My New Website!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Now that I am once again able to focus on painting after a lengthy hiatus, it was time not only to update my website, but for a whole new design as well which I am excited to share with you. Please check it out at <a href="http://juliemesserschmidt.com/">juliemesserschmidt.com</a> and let me know what you think! </div>
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"White Cloth and Garlic" is one of my favorite recently completed pieces, so I chose it as the home page image.</div>
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Just two weeks until the end of the baseball season. As a die hard Red Sox fan, it has been a long summer, too long. This time last year they were playing their way to a World Series Championship. This year they will have the honor of becoming the first major league team to go from worst (2012) to first to worst in three seasons! The Sox really are on the rocks this year, so what is a fan to do but drown their sorrows with a favorite tipple? I know my friend and fellow Red Sox fan enjoys the occasional martini, so this one's for you, Ruth. Happy Birthday! As for the Sox, there's always next year......Julie Messerschmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17637394299021562443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7880435310846606330.post-33975130734278596152014-08-29T17:55:00.000-04:002014-08-29T17:55:24.867-04:00Study In The Style of David Leffel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I did this 8x10 study today having been inspired by watching a new video by David Leffel posted on <a href="http://brightlightfineart.com/">Brightlightfineart.com</a>. I set up a similar arrangement to the one in the demo, then played the video while painting my own set up. It was kind of like having him watch over my shoulder guiding and inspiring me but without the nervousness really having him there would induce. I listened as I painted and glanced over at the video from time to time. I approached the painting process in the way he described and am pretty pleased with the way this turned out. Even though ultimately my own painting style has a different feel and look, I love David's work, and the paint quality he achieves. I think this was a helpful learning process, and if nothing more, I spent a fun afternoon logging some brush mileage. Julie Messerschmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17637394299021562443noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7880435310846606330.post-35241872298981245952014-08-28T16:32:00.000-04:002014-08-28T16:32:53.638-04:00On View in Pinehurst, NC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These paintings will be included in the show "An Evening in France" at Hollyhocks Gallery, 905 Linden Road, in Pinehurst, NC September 5, 2014 and continuing throughout the month. <br />
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Gallery owner, Jane Casnelli, graciously invited me to exhibit them at her gallery having seen them at the Moore County Fine Arts Festival in Southern Pines, where they were exhibited during the month of August.<br />
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I'm happy that cooler weather is here (even in Florida), and celebrated by painting these colorful gourds.</div>
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I would like to extend a very <b>big thank you</b> to Neil Carroll of London, England, for his wonderful <a href="http://neilcarroll.com/blog/36504/julie-messerschmidt" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">blog post</span></a> featuring my painting, "Contemplating Blue and Orange". Neil is a fellow member of the DPW artist community, who though he claims to be "new" to oil painting, is a very talented. His lovely still life paintings caught my attention right away when I first encountered them on the DPW site, and I am happy to share one of my favorites with you.here. His chiaroscuro paintings are little gems.</div>
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Once again, apologies for the gap between posts. I am going to make an effort to resume posting on a more regular basis now that things have settled down for me.</div>
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I haven't had much time to paint small paintings in the past few weeks, but did manage to do this one. The granny glasses belong to one of my students, who has kindly been loaning me items for still life props. I liked the idea of the Granny Smith apple and the glasses together, but the glasses were definitely a challenge to paint - symmetrical circles with thin rims!</div>
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I would like to share with you a wonderful new development in my art career. This past week my work was accepted for representation by <a href="http://www.andersonfineartgallery.com/">Anderson Fine Art Gallery</a> in St. Simon's Island, GA. The gallery represents a variety of nationally known artists, and I am thrilled and honored to be among them.</div>
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My apologies for the month long blog hiatus. Sadly, my stepmother passed away suddenly and unexpectedly August 30. In the ensuing month, I have been busy caring for my father who is 95 and, of course heartbroken at the loss of his dear wife. Now that things have settled down a bit, I can return to the blog, though it may not be with the same twice weekly regularity for a while yet.</div>
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I have not had time to do any small paintings this past month, this is one I did earlier in the summer of a friend's small pewter pitcher. I really enjoy painting metal, and in this simple set up I just tried to focus on bringing out the range of colors in the pewter.</div>
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Not having a great idea for a painting a few days ago, I did this onion study. I think it is always beneficial to concentrate on just one object for a study. In this case, I wanted to capture the different layers of the onion, to show their thinness and shine.</div>
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My husband and I love wine from Burgundy in France, and he is always asking me to do a "wine painting". He celebrated a birthday a couple of weeks ago, we had this bottle for dinner, so here is his wine painting! <br />
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The painting challenge for me was what to do about the lettering on the label. As it is the focal point of the painting, I wanted it to be legible enough to recognize as the wine we had, but yet not so perfect that the lettering took over. This is not easy to do, and I'm not sure my efforts were totally successful. Maybe that's why I don't do more paintings featuring wine bottles. Guess I'll have to practice by doing some more.<br />
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This is the first time I have painted figs. I have been wanting to for a while, but they are hard to find in stores where I live. They are challenging in that the skin is mostly dark, but yet filled with rich crimsons, blues and greens. I wanted to bring out those colors while still remaining in a very low key. They also start to wither pretty quickly, too, so an alla prima one day approach is essential. I did work on it a second day, but really had to rely on my memory rather than the subject in front of me. I'm satisfied with the result, but definitely would like to practice with figs some more.</div>
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Here is another study for the larger painting I am planning, this one in a slightly different color scheme than the jar with the apple I posted last week. I am working on combining the subject, primarily the jars and jug with the fruit into a good design and then experimenting with different background colors to best enhance the subject. Doing these little color studies helps both with the design and gives me an idea of how I will handle painting the objects themselves. This painting was painted over a previous work, and I left a bit of the old painting showing through in places. It is a little bit looser than I usually paint, but I liked the look, so decided to leave it.<br />
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I just finished this 12x16 last week and decided to post it, and talk a little bit about my thought process for the composition, rather than post a painting for auction. For this piece, I wanted to have fun with the textures in the old jars which have a variety of colors, as well as both rough and smooth areas where the glazes have worn off over the years. I wanted to create the feeling that they are in the shadows of an old Tuscan kitchen by indicating a strong sense of shadow and light. To direct the light toward the jars and the onions that surround them, I placed the old copper bowl in front as a dark foil It has the added value of picking up the oranges and yellows of the onions in its highlights. I decided on onions as an accompaniment to the jars because their organic shapes compliment the man made jars and bowl, while keeping to the same family of colors.</div>
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As a still life painter, I am always looking for interesting things to paint. This week one of my students invited me to her home to look at some of the antiques and various things she has. I came away with some great items and new inspiration. I immediately began planning a large piece with some of the new objects, which included various old jugs and jars. This piece was done as a study, and may form a portion of the larger work. Thanks, Carolyn!</div>
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Oysters and white wine, a perfect combination for a summer afternoon. The shells were fun to paint, as was the wine bottle, which was really done with just a few brush strokes.</div>
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Another in the box series I did a few weeks ago. I like how one of the apricots is in the light and the other is lurking in the shadow.</div>
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