Julia Lundman

A good friend recently sent me the following passage via e mail: In 1903, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke responded by letter to a young man se...

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

From the Haggis Museum in Stockton, California... This watercolor sketch of his mother is so beautiful i could just scream. Look at the way ...

Happy New Year! A little bird tells me 2007 will be a very good year. :) I recently saw a very rare showing of JC Leyendecker originals at t...

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And s...

Disneyland at Christmas time will get anyone in the spirit. The design of the Small World building is really great. I think it looks best at...

"For Clytie", 14"x18", oil Another broken arm painting. I like some of the looseness of the brushstrokes and yet it sti...

The cast has come off! Now it's physical therapy twice a week. Because of the injury, I don't have full range of motion in my wr...

"Barbara", charcoal on paper When I look at this drawing I did last week, I feel a mixture of satisfaction and disappointment. ...

"Dahlias Forever", oil, 9"x12" I saw some orange dahlias a few weeks ago and bought them so I could set up a still life...

Here is the drawing by 1950's pin up artist Gil Elvgren I was referring to in the previous post. Unfortunately these are the only phot...

a floral still life, again.

"Walter", charcoal Painting is always a balance between what you see and what you express. This is at the very essence of all k...

Here are a few drawings from my Saturday morning workshop up in Marin. "Moongirl", charcoal "Moongirl's profile...

Here are three of the one hour studies i did on the trails. My dad carried my 30 pound backpack that had my paint box and supplies. He w...

I got the frames last week. I framed the two paintings for the Salon International show at the Greenhouse Gallery in ...

"Poppies"

This is a watercolor I did several years ago when I used to paint at the Palette and Chisel in Chicago. This painting was stolen! Oh well...

"Theresa", oil My former boss, Monica Kendall at Calabash in Chicago bought this at a two person show I had at the Palette a...

"Pumpkins", just a quick little study.  

"Peonies 2", I couldn't resist painting a close up view of these interesting flowers.

"Crabapples and Peonies"

"Peonies" 

"Quinces and limes", a recent still life done in my studio. I love still life painting...i hope to do much more.