Monday Night Class

This class is awesome!  These are their underpaintings so far.  Pretty incredible- and they told me they were beginners...

Class at Jackson School of the Arts

I started teaching a painting class for adults at the Jackson School of the Arts last Monday. I'm really looking forward to next week! We are going to work on a couple of different approaches to beginning a painting. Should be fun :)

http://www.jacksonarts.org/
http://painting.about.com/od/paintingforbeginners/a/first_painting.htm

Art Prize starts this week!

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Hi Art Friends!

ArtPrize: September 22 - October 10

Don't Miss it! It starts this week!

I'm an official artprize artist! Please vote for me!

look me up at 

http://www.artprize.org/

Julia Garnett's 

Text voting ID: 

Up: 44301 

or use this code to vote online

My painting "Farmscape" is showing at O'Tooles 

juliaspaintings.blogspot.com

Venue information

O'Tooles Public House

448 Bridge Street NW

Grand Rapids

Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair '10

We're back from A2 Fair!  It was busy and exhausting.  The weather was hot and rainy.  We even had tornado warnings!  Fortunately none of my work was damaged...  all in all it was an enjoyable experience.  I met some great people, saw some wonderful old friends, had some of my art students stop by to see me, and I had some time with my family!  I'm thankful.

Thanks, as always, to my wonderful family for making this work!  Jamie, Cara, and Mary who are with me in this.  and my Jena even drove 7 hours to be here!

The next big adventure is Art Prize in September.  I can't wait!

Ann Arbor Art Fair '10

I'm getting ready for the A2 fair. I'm getting my paintings stacked up and ready to load in the car. I set up on Tues. and the Fair begins wed.  July 21-24. Booth #259 on Libery across from the library.

Art 634 Exhibit- Grand River

Here are a collection of pictures from the Grand River Exhibit I'm in this month.  Be sure to see it at Art 634! 

http://www.art634.com/art634events.html

Art Prize

The matching window for Artists and Venues is now closed, and I have connected with O'Tooles!  I'm proud to be exhibiting at an Irish Pub. I love the idea of displaying a painting of farmland with wheat in the foreground at a restaurant- the field to table journey is an intricate one.  There are so many steps and so many people involved along the way.  Food is not only important to survival, but it is integral to the social structure of every culture.  I'm lucky to live where I am surrounded by beautiful farmland.  Just yesterday they were baling hay in my backyard!  Farmers work endless hours in the summer.  The other night we got home about 11 pm and a tractor was cutting the hay on the dark, we could see the headlights glowing up and down the rows...

new style?

I took a painting today to Art 634 for the Grand River Exhibit. It's a complete departure in style for me. It's a very abstract mixed media painting. I used painted papers and paper towel, watercolor, sharpie, acrylic, gel medium, and dried acrylic that I cut into shapes. It was super fun to do! I forgot to take a picture of it, and I forgot to sign it- oops! I will do those things after the exhibit I guess...

More paintings to Tibbits

Got back the roller skates and sent in the barn cat painting to Tibbits Opera House in Coldwater.

Skate got 1st Place People's Choice, yeah!!!!!

Art Prize

I signed up for Art Prize, but I need a venue! I need to hurry! http://www.artprize.org/artists
If you have any suggestions...