daily painting titled Self portrait
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Self portrait

14cm x 20cm, oil on board Painting status: SOLD
Daily painting for Friday 19 June, 2015
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21 Comments

Chris harvison | June 19, 2015 9:21 PM
Love your work Julian, fabulous self portrait. I'm hoping to come along nest year to your workshop from OZ
Charley Parker | June 19, 2015 9:23 PM
Channeling Rembrandt? Wonderful.
Alain | June 19, 2015 9:32 PM
Stunning!Disconcerting!Puzzling!...So many words to qualify this stunning portrait. But just a single locution comes to my mind immediately:"tour de force"! Oddly,this pure piece of bravura reminds me of the famous Franz Hals Fragonard and Lucian Freud who painted with the same boldness. Forehead and nose here are pure marvels:when the varied directions of brushstrokes as unique fingerprints genetically give birth to life...from an ordinary piece of fabric for painting.
Susan | June 19, 2015 9:39 PM
Must be your birthday! Thank you for the set up including paint choices. Wonderful... and so is the portrait.
Eriksen JC | June 19, 2015 10:04 PM
Well it's lots better with curls. It reminds me of Ruth's description in Cherry Orchard. Looking for a new one of ?Louie.
Kathleen Dawson | June 19, 2015 10:04 PM
Shapes of Robert Henri who said "Paint the flying spirit of the bird instead of its feathers!"
Cary Cochrane | June 19, 2015 10:15 PM
Rembrant.
francis | June 19, 2015 10:58 PM
Just love it - so painterly! is that Ruth in the corner of the mirror......
Fanny Campbell | June 19, 2015 11:33 PM
Your self-portraits are always the most memorable for me. And always marvelous. I am grateful for them.thanks you.
Annette | June 19, 2015 11:43 PM
Love Alain's term "bravura." We've seen this look before, I think in reference to Louis' behavior. It makes me smile.
heidi lindy | June 20, 2015 12:18 AM
Curiously, your self portraits portray you as a very serious guy.....but I recall you as being very much in touch with your inner silly self.
ramesh b shah | June 20, 2015 4:35 AM
impressed ! seems that we are face-to-face !
Karin Moorhouse | June 20, 2015 7:37 AM
Who is that handsome chap! Fabulous painting Julian
Anna Howard | June 20, 2015 10:25 AM
Dear Julian,after years of laying on paint and generally honing your craft,content and substance are one! A mellow,yet spirited self portrait shows a man with a kindly face, still curious but with a touch of scepticism(which has nothing to do with cynicism),a husband, a father, a painter. I know this is presumptuous of me but you are looking rather fauve and Provencal as well,could it be by symbiosis! Or is it that the curls are back!
lennart s | June 20, 2015 2:59 PM
you became better and better!
Laurie | June 20, 2015 5:22 PM
I am amazed at how abstract and loose your painting is and yet you always catch the lights and darks and the subject with such emotion. Your paintings are a bright spot in my day every time. Thanks for sharing.
Steve Merrow-Smith | June 20, 2015 9:19 PM
WOW!
Eriksen JC | June 20, 2015 9:33 PM
Well it's lots better with curls. It reminds me of Ruth's description in Cherry Orchard. Looking for a new one of ?Louie.
Elinor Stone | June 21, 2015 12:42 AM
So helpful that you showed the set-up. This encourages me, a painter-in-training, to try it. Many thanks, Elinor Stone
david parker | June 21, 2015 10:01 PM
A master of the brush and colour mixing!
Maureen | June 21, 2015 10:39 PM
Still looking hot, Julian.