daily painting titled Three onions
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Three onions

18.6cm x 14cm (7"x5½"), oil on gessoed card Painting status: SOLD
Daily painting for Sunday 10 October, 2010
Posted in Still life paintings
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19 Comments

Merilee | October 10, 2010 2:44 PM
MASTERPIECE!!! HA!!! I was just thinking of painting onions yesterday!
grace snyder | October 10, 2010 2:52 PM
i am wondering if you manipulated the stems or they came that way and you just arranged them so beautifully? hmmmm.....thanks whichever. gfs
Stephen | October 10, 2010 3:05 PM
Another jaw dropping masterpiece Julian, color and edges are spot on.
shirley fachilla | October 10, 2010 3:52 PM
These onions are so present. They are like Cezanne's apples; They have such weight and mass. They also happen to be gorgeously beautiful with the orange glow of your tint peeking through. I think with these last two still lifes you've taken your painting to a new level. Can't wait to see what's next.
Don Coker | October 10, 2010 4:02 PM
Great stuff, Julian! They bring tears to my eyes... No really.
Alain | October 10, 2010 4:59 PM
As beautiful as handmade Christmas baubles!I love the "wings"in the wind of these onions and the onion on the right side looks like "The winged Victory of Samothrace"!Bewitching!
Donald Verger | October 10, 2010 5:21 PM
Such gentle gorgeous light - your paintings are magical and deeply affecting! Best, don
Ann | October 10, 2010 5:37 PM
Exquisite!
Joie | October 10, 2010 7:00 PM
SPEECHLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leslee | October 10, 2010 7:21 PM
This stopped me dead in my tracks. Luminous! I don't think I can think of a mere onion again the same way! Bravo.
Barbara M | October 10, 2010 8:48 PM
Hi Julian Nothing is exactly the same though we may think so. Each of these onions has a different hat and skin. Each has balanced themselves differently on the flat surface where you placed them, thus defining their shape. If they had bodies, they could be clowns.
Barbara M | October 10, 2010 8:49 PM
should be, "balanced itself"
Kathy | October 10, 2010 9:58 PM
I can almost feel the papery skin..so perfect.
Kathy | October 10, 2010 9:58 PM
I can almost feel the papery skin..so perfect.
donna | October 10, 2010 10:46 PM
the dancing onions.
Frith | October 11, 2010 3:24 AM
I play a guessing game sometimes - "What will Julian paint today?" - and I was so far off today, that the onions made me laugh. They are gorgeous. Luminous. I can feel their silky papery skins under my fingers, feel their heft. Beautifully done. Gracias!
liz graham-yooll | October 11, 2010 8:50 AM
Gorgeous!
Dale Culliford | October 11, 2010 10:34 AM
Not only just wonderfully tactile,I can also imagine the sound of those skins peeling off.Fantastic!
oilymuck | October 11, 2010 11:32 AM
No wonder you've received eighteen (now nineteen) comments.