Daily Painting

Still life with Bread, cheese and knife

20cm x 15cm, oil on board

Painting status: SOLD

Painted Monday, 15 October 2012 · Still life paintings

The conversation

Thoughts on this painting

14 comments

Susan Hughes

This looks a lot like my lunches when I was traveling with friends in Normandy when I studied abroad in Dijon, France. It brings back good memories. Thanks for sharing your paintings. Susan

Susan Hughes

This looks a lot like my lunches when traveling in Normandy with friends when I was studying in Dijon, France. Thanks for the memories.

Monique Shaw

One of my favourite subject and I beleive you are the best painter of cheese and bread that I know .( It looks like that this work has really turned the head of the previous admirer...)

Rodolfo Piriz

esta tan buena la pintura que abre el apetito, ya mismo me levanto de esta silla y tomo un troza de pan y queso, felicitaciones !!!, como siempre

Maureen

Just woke up & here you are with this scrumptious offering for breakfast. Julian, you are the man!

Alain

Something full of drama in this one,which reminds me of some still-life paintings of Goya or paintings of characters by Jacques Louis David ("The death of Marat" more particularly).Less dramatically, I feel this humble scene invites us by the positioning of the knife to share the supper;as to say:"come in and partake of the Bread and Cheese with us".

Georgia Sheron

julian, great three dimensionality and texture. It is such a treat to get your beautiful art works every day...it's a wonderful visual gift to look forward to each day. cheers to you and your family, georgia

Carole

Love the bread, love the cheese but the shadow for the knife just does not tie in with the direction of the light for the rest of the painting. or if the bottom of the painting is a vertical plane then we need more of an indication of an edge. But my goodness I could almost smell that cheese on my screen.

Painter’s notes

A market day cheese (most of which was consumed at lunch)

Julian Merrow-Smith ·