Daily Painting

Head of garlic

14cm x 15cm, oil on board

Painting status: SOLD

Painted Wednesday, 14 December 2011 · Still life paintings

The conversation

Thoughts on this painting

16 comments

Mary Anne Clark

I would know that garlic anywhere! It sounds like Louis' needs are making adjustments in your diet (in a good way)!
Thanks for the beautiful paintings, Julian.

Cl-Marie

What a wonderfully rugged garlic head!! I'll bet it would odiferize (word?) a batch of chili magnificently! I love the way you put it down!! Cl-Marie

Madeleine S Sullivan

I am new to your wonderful and awsome daily paintings (my daughter, Micaela Sullivan-Fowler introduced me to it). Who is Louis?

julian

Not one of my best but hey, cheap cuts of beef cooked in red wine for six hours, what's not to like?

Julian

Louis is our precocious 14 months old son. He is the result of a long gestation period of about six years, we adopted him from Mali in west africa in April

Bernard Aronson

Julian: This is what I'm talking about!!
The energy in this painting is awesome.
Did Louis have anything to do with it?
Marche on mes ami, marche on!

AH

Cette fière tête d'ail l'a échappé belle, pour notre plus grand plaisir!
Superbe !
Louis doit-il manger sans sel ?

Julian

Sans sel adjouté (comme tous les enfants de son age, d'ailleurs!)

without added salt (like all children his age)

Alain

When miraculous brushstrokes turn into real scale leaves.When fiction is stranger than fact...Stunning!

Painter’s notes

Ironically the other thing I did today was to cook a Daube Provençale, it's enough already that we can't put salt in things Louis is going to share but this time I forgot the garlic

Julian Merrow-Smith ·