daily painting titled Still Life with Onion, Shallot and Head of Garlic
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Still Life with Onion, Shallot and Head of Garlic

16cm x 13cm (6¼"x5"), oil on gessoed card Painting status: SOLD
Daily painting for Monday 26 January, 2009
Posted in Still life paintings
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10 Comments

Karen | January 26, 2009 7:26 PM
Beautiful painting. Wow, that's a big head of garlic! Or a small onion? I enjoy your work so much, and always look forward to seeing the changing of the seasons there in Provence. The arrival of your email is one the highlights of my afternoon. Keep up the great work!
bartow | January 26, 2009 7:53 PM
Well, these pictures of alliums are all well & good, but I'm still hoping that Julian will do a portrait of a truffle before the season is over...
jane | January 26, 2009 9:11 PM
Hi J.....like they are in conversation! great...love many, somehow them chatting amused me!!too many glasses of wine!!love Janex
Bernie | January 26, 2009 11:26 PM
This wonderful stillife brings tears of joy!
grace snyder | January 27, 2009 1:31 AM
the colors are wonderful but it is the composition that is so grand the more i look at it.....perfect in every way. thankyou.
jol | January 27, 2009 1:56 AM
Julian, you know I'm fascinated by the reflections of light on all of your paintings. Can you tell your admirers HOW you put on the white(s) on the brighter, shinier spots? Do you ever use your fingers in your paintings? Or is it all brush work? Whatever it is, it's marvelous, but I'm just intrigued by the way a painter works....
Alastair | January 27, 2009 2:01 PM
I love the stem end of the onion, its almost musical!
Valerie | January 27, 2009 6:12 PM
Absolutely wonderful colour, composition and light. Amazing.
Roger Phillips | January 28, 2009 6:53 PM
Hi Julian, I am a friend of Ann and Clive. I love your work. I am a mushroom expert and general plantsman. The comment on truffles is a great point it would be wonderful to see some paintings of them. Roger Phillips
ruth | February 6, 2009 12:10 PM
Hello Roger, I am thinking of you guiltily today as we yet again missed the infamous truffle market in Carpentras this morning. Julian is a long term fan of your book Wild Food and we have enjoyed many of your recipes. There are a couple of paintings of truffles, I think, if you go to the full archive. As you can imagine they are not that easy to paint. Anyway there is one with eggs, I know, and another of a truffle orchard which is also a print. When you come and visit we will take you to the truffle market!