Daily Painting Sunday, 31 July 2011

High lavender

20cm x 13cm, (approx 8"x5") oil on panel

Painting status: SOLD

Painted Sunday, 31 July 2011 · Landscape paintings

The conversation

Thoughts on this painting

9 comments

Katherine 31 July 2011 at 16:24

Nope - 1st and 2nd July were definitely OK - if a bit windy. Looks like you just brought the not so summery weather back from the UK! :)

I like the different perspective you've got with this one. I didn't realise until I started reading about lavender that it loves poor soil and doesn't mind growing up high so long as it gets full sun

I guess everywhere is now gearing up for the Lavender Festivals?

Bob Hardie 31 July 2011 at 16:34

Living in a region that has none of these mass blooming of herbs such as lavender, it is such a great pleasure to see them though an artist's eyes. However, I am familiar with the scent of lavender, and can smell it now.

Dean Taylor Drewyer 31 July 2011 at 17:00

Julian - I really admire the simplicity and (at the same time) the absolute rightness of those rocks in the middle ground. Nice work as always.

shirley fachilla 31 July 2011 at 17:21

This is filled with the warmth and sunshine of July. I do so love your lavender paintings.

Don Coker 31 July 2011 at 20:13

Love the soft treatment of the clouds, Julian!

Denise Maxwell 31 July 2011 at 20:15

Oh my god, it's so beautiful! That is what I was saying when I was out yesterday on our 1st and final real July day also. This is exactly what I figured I wouldn't be able to capture and here you have done it with such breathtaking beauty.

liz graham-yooll 31 July 2011 at 21:53

Nice one! I'm so relieved that you've had horrible July weather ... I've just moved to SW France (from Tuscany)and have been so depressed by the climate. Maybe it's not always like this??

Mike Masterton 1 August 2011 at 05:58

Makes me want to be there.

Alain 1 August 2011 at 12:11

The composition,shot from below, inescapably leads my eyes to the humble small cloud,almost transparent,near the big one...Looking like an angel who is insistently gazing at the artist in action.Thanks to this painting,this magical and transient cloud will stay forever.