Daily Painting

Daily painting: Onion, garlic and confit pot

Onion, garlic and confit pot

20cm x 12cm (approx 8"x4½"), oil on board

Painting status: SOLD

Painted Friday, 5 August 2011 · Still life paintings

The conversation

Thoughts on this painting

9 comments

Bernie Aronson

Hi Julian: Once again a beautiful still-life.
The colors, textures and arrangement are great.
I would love to see more of that confit pot.
I know that the onion and garlic are the stars
of this set-up but wouldn't a vertical format
showing more or all of the confit pot work out
as well? I love doing still-life with fruits
or veggies. Yours are truly inspiring and I look forward to every postcard painting, especially the still-life pieces. Thankyou!

nancy southard

dear Julian,
your emails/paintings make me happy.
i purchased the new book from amazon and enjoyed reading some pages before ordering it.
your paintings are so fine. nancy southard

Alain

I like in this one how Julian you lead us all over and through the surface:first of all,these humorous "rabbit ears" of the garlic,in awakening,which are running in parallel to the pot towards the top and even, out of the painting;then,the curved stem of the onion,leading us towards the right side and into the deep background(the surface now is suddenly broken),so mysterious...And on the top of it, the curly and wriggly roots(nearly nervous) of the onion,like some locusts or stick insects,which desperately seem to try to walk-around.For me,this still life is a "still alive" painting.

phyllis Brodsky

Yes Julian, i do love this one very much also,,,,,,,it is outstanding in color and composition,,,,,,,, you are inspiriing me to paint

Painter’s notes

Ruth grew the onion, I bought the garlic

Julian Merrow-Smith ·