Daily Painting

Perfume

13cm x 20cm, oil on board

Painting status: SOLD

Painted Tuesday, 15 March 2016 · Still life paintings

The conversation

Thoughts on this painting

17 comments

Elaine Culbert

Oh WOW!!!!!

That is absolutely perfect in its simplicity! Fantastic idea!

If I tried that, my friends would be asking "where's the rest of the painting"!!

I love it!!!

Fonty

Très réussi, bravo pour la lumière et la simplicité en plus c'est mon parfum ! Dommage pas ,de temps pour m'inscrire à l'auction mais si pas preneur et raisonnable j'achète

E Patterson

Alison I'd love to see this in person! If you're in Napa it would be fun!! I've been bidding from Maui on vacation . I used to wear only this fragrance. Let me know if you are open to a viewing.

Jeff

Captured the essence not just of this perfume bottle but of perfume itself, the idea of it, it's glamorous mystique, in straightforward but graceful strokes. Every single mark on this small painting does its job, in its perfect place, at its correct temperature and hue. There is an almost imperceptible halo of reflected light on the wall behind the subject that a less confident painter might feel the need to play up. Years of painting goes into knowing that covering up the horizontal slash of purple in the lower right would completely change the feel of the artwork. It anchors the picture and balances the mass that forms the brand name & logo on the bottle. This is a painting I could look at every day for the rest of my life and always see something new. A long-winded way to say "just beautiful Julian"

Barbara M

Hello Julian
I love the change to a perfume bottle AND Jeff's comment and analysis of the painting.