daily painting titled Mushroom
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Mushroom

13cm x 12cm (5"x4½"), oil on gessoed card Painting status: SOLD
This painting is available as a limited edition print
Daily painting for Tuesday 9 February, 2010
Posted in Still life paintings
Tags: print, still life

28 Comments

Leslee | February 9, 2010 9:22 PM
Simply unbelievable!!! I gasped!
Alain | February 9, 2010 9:25 PM
Breathtaking Julian! Strange like an animal living in the abysses! Strange like a...UFO! Cosmic Beauty. Sidereal light. Mind-blowing apparition. Amazing picture.
Micaela | February 9, 2010 10:06 PM
OMG! (that's what American teenagers text on their cell phones)- for Oh My God! Extraordinary.
Janice Cartier | February 9, 2010 11:54 PM
Wow. Just..wow...or more like WOWOWOWOW! Exquisite.
Boglár Juliánna Nagy | February 10, 2010 12:40 AM
Holy cow! That is really good!
Barbara M | February 10, 2010 1:09 AM
It is truly a magic mushroom in the aesthetic sense of the word. What an inspriation, Julian, to paint one mushroom. You have shown me in this painting that I must pay more attention to the ingredients I use in my cooking. I also will put them in the light and examine them more closely to see how you might have looked at this one. Bravo!!!
Don Coker | February 10, 2010 2:16 AM
Wow, that's very strange and beautiful, Julian.
rachael | February 10, 2010 3:17 AM
It's so beautiful! The lighting and shadows are wonderful I agree that something so simple can be more closely appreciated. Thank you!
oilymuck | February 10, 2010 7:12 AM
No words...
rahinaqh | February 10, 2010 8:30 AM
i have often thought mushrooms are a wonderful subject to paint but never had the vision to compose effectively as you have here bringing all the key elements of what makes a mushroom just that. exquisite!
EMANOIL | February 10, 2010 9:03 AM
great!
rebecca | February 10, 2010 1:32 PM
that little blue fleck, top left underside of the cap ....just the right note...you inspire me
Merilee | February 10, 2010 2:36 PM
THAT........is FABULOUS.
Janet | February 10, 2010 3:36 PM
Whoa, not only can I smell that mushroom... I can taste it! How do you do this. Really. Just enough poetic license to know I'm not looking at a photograph. Genius...
jol | February 10, 2010 4:11 PM
A magical mushroom! I get a "high" just from looking and admiring it! The contrasts of shadow and light are positively metaphysical! Thanks, Julian. You have a birthday coming up soon: if I can't get you a cyber-card on the right day, I'll be thinking of you and wishing you a most JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE!!!
Susan Donahue | February 10, 2010 5:03 PM
I, too, gasped. This is so fungal, so strange and alive. An exquisite painting. Thank you.
Peter | February 10, 2010 11:39 PM
It is beyond me how you create these perfect little dramas every day. Even if we can't own them, thanks for sharing them with the world. And: Happy Birthday! (I think it's around this time of the month)
Claire Carnell | February 11, 2010 5:29 AM
This is what painting is all about. Absolutely gorgeous!
fiona | February 11, 2010 9:46 AM
I went to an Indian Restaurant where they served something called "Sexy Mushroom Masala". Now I know what a sexy mushroom looks like...
Janet Wolahan | February 11, 2010 11:03 PM
This extraordinary "Mushroom" and also "Apple Half" are on a whole new level of painting, even for you! I am truly stunned. In both paintings the composition - a kind of "presentation" - is powerful, sensual, sublime. Your wonderful technique allows you to pull it off. Magnificent!!!
Harriet | February 12, 2010 3:13 AM
I gasped too. The mushroom is absolutely perfect. I felt like grabbing it.
Alain | February 12, 2010 8:44 AM
Julian, this masterpiece would have to belong to the Musée d'Orsay!
Mary Sheehan Winn | February 13, 2010 1:00 AM
the first thing that caught my eye was the little touch of smokey blue. Perfect!
Alain | February 16, 2010 1:29 PM
What could be the next one...
g.snyder | February 19, 2010 8:33 PM
ten days!and i am missing the joy and inspiration of yr paintings,julian. i hope all is well with you and family and we will be surprised and full of glee to see a "postcard" or news from you soon. gfs
Alain | February 20, 2010 6:15 PM
I hope you don't stop Julian, you help us to live in a better world; so harmonious, so nice.
jennifer b | February 21, 2010 4:02 AM
So true Alain, our thoughts are with you Julian and Ruth.
Chris Bingle | February 21, 2010 11:26 AM
I think today is your birthday too, Julian - I hit 51 today... My studio is too cold to work in at the moment, and it's very frustrating. I wanted to do a birthday painting, but my family have other ideas! I keep looking back between your mushroom painting and the half apple to keep me going until I can get back to my own efforts. I hope all is well with you and Ruth. Best wishes, and many happy returns! Chris B