Julie T. Chapman - ArtBlog

A new piece, just finished a week or two ago. Still running hot and cold on paintings - one week I’m happy, the next I’m ready to slit my wrists.

I’ve been messing with texture lately, and this is one of the first things to turn out. Once the composition has been outlined with vine charcoal (note that I do not project anything to transfer my idea to the canvas!) and sprayed with fixative, I start troweling on acrylic modeling compound and texturing it with brush, knife, etc. Once this dries, it’s time to tone the canvas with all my favorite gorgeous transparent colors, let that dry, THEN we get to slather on the thick stuff.

It’s all pretty yummy, I gotta say…at least when it works.

Painting: “Buck Stops Here”, 18 x 18 - and thank you to my friend Ellen for suggesting the title!

Three new paintings have just arrived at my galleries! “Suspended Animation” and “Heeler”, the two rodeo pieces, are now available at Legacy Contemporary in Scottsdale.

“Larger Than Life”, my ‘bighorn abstract’, is now hanging at Ernest Fuller Fine Art in Denver.