JCAA Critique night with Heiner Hertling

Heiner critiquing a member's painting.

Heiner's beautiful painting of deer. Love the backlighting <3

What a lovely couple, Heiner Hertling and his wife. I was delighted to be able to attend this critique.

eternal trees

More 4 x 6 paintings for sale.

These look awesome when displayed in an array. I have 12 available. The painting itself is postcard size. You can purchase an original work of art for the price of a nice dinner out! These are $20 each!

more work on diptych

in progress

This is the diptych I have been working on forever! I'm getting pretty close to being done- Last night I worked the leaves some more- I added a couple detail views. I'm really liking the maple leaves. The tree needs more detail, and the sky color needs to be brought up some more... I can't wait to work more on it!

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 

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Up: 44301 

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My painting "Farmscape" is showing at O'Tooles 

juliaspaintings.blogspot.com

Venue information

O'Tooles Public House

448 Bridge Street NW

Grand Rapids

pics from fairy festival

I was very proud to have my field and flower paintings as the backdrop for the fairy festival at Art 634! It was an adorable event where all the little fairies in town gathered for tea, crafts, and activities. I even saw some little fairies that looked an awful lot like my art students! The Ann Arbor Fairy Doors were a main attraction. This is an annual event, so if you missed it this year, all fairies, elves, gnomes, and wee folk are invited back next year!

Art 634 Exhibit

This Sunday from 2-4 PM I'll be at art 634 for a meet and greet. My flower paintings are up all month, including the date of the spectacular Fairy Festival. On Saturday the 24th is the 3rd Annual Fairy Festival from 11-5 PM. There will be lots of things going on for kids, and all kinds of cute Fairy artwork. Don't miss it! 634 Mechanic Street, Jackson.

RED Cross Pop Up Gallery

Here are some photos from the Red Cross Pop Up Gallery:
Cara's sculpture is in the middle of this wall:

Mary Lou's paper painting:
Mary's paintings:
Cara's sculpture:
My snow paintings on this wall:

Java N Jazz Event Pictures

It was a great night of music, art, and coffee! Awesome singer from Albion! Great jazz from Hillsdale!

The Coffee House was full, so we sat back by the elevator!

Caramel Latte!

Black Forest Cafe!

4 cups of Java!

It's Tuesday, so of course I painted with Mary! I did 4 funky fun paintings for the Java N Jazz event this Friday. They are cups of coffee in bright colors with Jazz quotes... Loved doing them!

Halloween Feast! Yum!

Look who's coming to Halloween Dinner...

Head shot of "sisters"

I was just looking through old pictures and thought I would post this one so you could see it. This was at the opening of the Heirloom Love show in Lansing. I'm not sure who took this photo, but it's a neat view of Cara's sculpture "Sisters".

booth pictures

Here are a couple of pictures of my booth at A2 Summer Art Fair. Thanks to Jamie, Mary, Cara, and Jena for all the work setting up! and to Jamie, Mary and Ned for tearing down! I could never do this by myself!

I had a great time. I met so many interesting people, there were over 500,000 people at the art fair- from all over the world! I really appreciated my friends that came to see me at my booth, that meant a lot to me. There was a lot of interest in my work, and great comments... I was especially pleased to have so many painters stop in for a look. I enjoyed chatting with everyone. It was inspiring! You all made my first solo Art Fair a success!

A2 Art Fair

It has been a great experience to be in the Ann Arbor Art Fair! Everyone has been so helpful to me, from setting up, bringing me food and water, giving me advice, making sure I have everything I need. So many people have stopped in to see me, I am overwhelmed! I have had great feedback, and have loved meeting so many people. Tomorrow is the last day! It ends at 6, so I hope to meet a lot more people. I really love the location of my booth. I'm across from the Cupcake Station, which I am totally in love with! You have to have the banana pudding there! And I am near the ice cream store! and, for the last 2 nights there have been wonderful banjo and guitar players near my booth. I am soooo lucky! Maybe I'll see you tomorrow...

sign the guest book

Yesterday my in-laws and some of their friends went to see our art show "Heirloom Love" and the guest book wasn't out.  If you go to the show, please ask at the desk to sign the guestbook!  I'll really want to know you were there.  Thanks so much to all who have gone to see our work.  We appreciate the time you took, and we love your comments!

the red truck, and quilts

Mary finished her painting tonight!  I love it!  It looks so real!  

...and I'm working on these quilt inspired paintings.  they're developing, this is the first layer.  Cara and I are using this pattern to unify our show in May.  It will be a part of each portrait and sculpture somehow.  

I didn't mean to leave you for so long

I haven't looked at this blog in so long I hardly remember how to do this!  I haven't blogged since school has been back in swing- I've been a little busy...  Also, our computer at home isn't working very well so I have to use my daughter's computer, we need to get up to speed!

Anyway, I'm still painting.  In Dec. I didn't do much because I was crocheting presents instead-I made a lot of hats!   but now I'm back at it on Tuesdays.  Mary and Julie are going to try to come as much as they can on "paint day", and Sandia will come as she can- she has a lot of other commitments.  Last week my 3 cutie pie interns came over to work on art with me!  I sure am going to miss them, they were with me all of January- they were fantastic!  They did a cool hieroglyphics lesson that the kids really loved!

By the way, my slides were accepted for the Art Guild standards review, so I was glad about that!  I don't know yet if I can participate in the show next summer- we might be on vacation then, we haven't booked tickets yet, but it looks like they are going to be during that time.  We'll see...

Did you see the comment I received on the last blog entry?  that was fun!  Jeff Krino's wife emailed his website- it's www.krinosnewjunk.com check it out!  I have to figure out how to write back...  I'm always in too much of a hurry for technology stuff lately...  I wish I could do this at work, during lunch break, but I can't- it's blocked.

Art workshop at Joan's

I have a wonderful neighbor named Joan who is an artist. She creates colorful monotypes- very beautiful.

My daughter, my painting buddies, and I recently spent the day at Joan's workshop. It was super fun. She had a lot of sunflowers in bloom and she invited her art friends to come down and capture them in the media of our choice. There were about 15 of us that spent the day creating. It was interesting to see how different each of us chose to work; different compositions, different media, different set ups... everyone was unique! I still haven't finished my painting- but I will! You can see what I have done so far on the top right- those of you that know how I paint know that it won't look anything like this in the end. I drew all over it with a sharpie, so we'll see what happens with that! It seemed like a good idea at the time :-)

Joan also demonstrated oil pastels. She has such a bubbly enthusiasm for her artwork, it's just fun to be around her. I also really liked how she put up artist quotes on stakes all over her yard, and each stake had a cheerful little stuffed flower at the top- it was cute! Thanks Joan for a great day!

back from camping

Just home from camping. We were gone for 3 nights. It was beautiful on Lake Michigan. I need to paint a sunset, I never have...
I got home and received in the mail the application for the Guild review of Standards. So, that's my next thing I need to do. I have to send in slides of my work and a booth slide for review to see if I can get in next year. Hopefully, I will get my booth slides from the photographer soon! I want to send this in right away!

Thankful for Friends

OK, so, I'm still thinking about the Ann Arbor Show... One of the things I'm most thankful for are my friends and family who made such an effort to drive over and find me at the show. I know some people came who have never been to the art show before! I'm sure I'll forget someone when I try to list everyone, but I want to try to remember.

On the first day, first thing, while I was still in a daze, my good painting buddies Sandia and Mary came! That started my day out right!

I remember Michelle and her husband showing up- and said it was hard to find me, I wonder how many other people had trouble too. I had given post cards to a lot of people with the initial location that the Guild gave us, then right before the show they changed our location... I'm so glad they found me- what a great surprise! I heard Judy was there when I was away from the booth:-(, sorry Judy.

Our good friends Doug and Vandria came, I even got to sneak away and have dinner with them thanks to Lauren. So many of our longtime favorite friends came-Steve and Becky and Laura! and I got to spend some time looking around with them, yeah! -Dawn, Vern, and Brittney! It was such a fun surprise to see you! -Joan, Chelsea, Carol, Cathy! You were all so sweet to make the trip over. I wish I would have been there when you showed up, I would have enjoyed it so much. Patti and her sister Terri came out for a fun sister day! Happy birthday Terri! Jen, You're the best! You are such an encouragement and a blessing to me! I hope you had an awesome day with your girlfriends.

My dad and Becky even came! That was a huge surprise! We were taking a break and eating dinner when they happened to walk by!

Of course my favorite visitor and helper extrodinaire was Jamie!! and my favorite girls Cara and Jena. Thanks everyone for your support! and my family for your patience and help while I was concentrating on this for so long- you know I love you.