Day 30: Christmas market on Marienplatz

Christmas market on Marienplatz, 15 x 15 cm, oil on canvas, ©2011 Julie Galante. [SOLD]

The last day! I have had so much fun during this Art Every Day Month. I’ve loved getting to know other AEDMers through their blogs, and I’m pretty pleased with the paintings I’ve produced. Thank you all so much for stopping by and especially for all your lovely lovely comments!

For me it’s now on to the next adventure – getting everything ready for my Open Studio on Sunday. Still lots to do: cleaning, hanging paintings, making sure they’re all signed and dusted, deciding what I’m going to serve… This is the second Open Studio I’ve hosted this year, so at least I know what to expect. I think I’m half as nervous as I was the first time.

November is Art Every Day Month. I’ll be posting a new small painting here each and every day. After they have had time to dry, most of the original paintings will also appear in my Etsy shop. Paintings from the beginning of the month are already there! Christmas cards, too.

Tags: Art Every Day Month, Christmas, Christmas market, cityscape, daily painting, Germany, Munich, painting

Day 29: sunny Odeonsplatz

A sunny winter morning in Munich’s Odeonsplatz, 30 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, €325, ©2011 Julie Galante. Available for sale on Etsy.

More Munich for you today. This painting is kind of a companion piece to day 15′s Snowy Day in Odeonsplatz. It also depicts a winter day, but without snow (I know it’s winter by how low the sun is in the southern sky, leaving much of the square in shadow).

November is Art Every Day Month. I’ll be posting a new small painting here each and every day. After they have had time to dry (a couple weeks), most of the original paintings will also appear in my Etsy shop. Paintings from the beginning of the month are already there! Christmas cards, too.

Tags: Art Every Day Month, cityscape, Germany, Munich, oils, painting

Day 28: Munich Wittelsbacherbrücke

Munich Wittelsbacherbrücke, 18 x 24 cm, oil on canvas, ©2011 Julie Galante. [SOLD]

This is a bridge in central Munich called Wittelsbacherbrücke (don’t you just love German?). The church looming in the background is St. Maximilian.

I’m on a Munich streak here, which is quite serendipitous since little Munich paintings tend to be quite popular at events like my upcoming Open Studio. Less than a week to go!

November is Art Every Day Month. I’ll be posting a new small painting here each and every day. After they have had time to dry (a couple weeks), most of the original paintings will also appear in my Etsy shop. Paintings from the beginning of the month are already there! Christmas cards, too.

Tags: Art Every Day Month, cityscape, daily painting, Germany, Munich, oils, painting

Day 27: Miniature Munich

Alter Peter in Miniature, 15 x 15 cm, oil on canvas, ©2011 Julie Galante. [SOLD]

I don’t usually do cityscapes on these tiny (6 x 6 inch) canvases. I don’t have the world’s steadiest hand, so putting in such small details isn’t easy (that’s why this painting is pretty loose). I think the result is kind of cute, central Munich in miniature.

More Open Studio prep going on around here today (it’s only a week away!). Nails are going in for a second display wall for little daily paintings, since I have so many on hand thanks to Art Every Day Month. I just hope that will all this shuffling around we don’t forget that a lot of them are still wet.

November is Art Every Day Month. I’ll be posting a new small painting here each and every day. After they have had time to dry (a couple weeks), most of the original paintings will also appear in my Etsy shop. Paintings from the beginning of the month are already there! Christmas cards, too.

Tags: Art Every Day Month, cityscape, daily painting, Germany, Munich, oils, painting

Day 26: chili peppers

Chili Peppers, 15 x 15 cm, oil on canvas, ©2011 Julie Galante. [SOLD]

I felt like doing something a little different today, and that ended up being this palette knife painting of chili peppers. For the most part I used the colors straight out of the tubes. I was going for simple shapes and bright colors. All that thick, shiny, wet paint proved hard to photograph, but hopefully I’ll get a better shot of it later.

November is Art Every Day Month. I’ll be posting a new small painting here each and every day. After they have had time to dry (a couple weeks), most of the original paintings will also appear in my Etsy shop. Paintings from the beginning of the month are already there! Christmas cards, too.

Tags: Art Every Day Month, daily painting, painting, still life, vegetables

Day 25: more Munich

Alter Peter Study, 18 x 24 cm, oil on canvas, €120, ©2011 Julie Galante. Original painting available on Etsy.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. In honor of Black Friday, I’ve added a new batch of paintings to my Etsy store, including my pomegranate painting and the last of the leaf paintings. Way more comfortable than sleeping outside Best Buy in the rain! Which reminds me, over at Studio Mailbox, TJ has several other ideas for your gift shopping today, including handmade items from around the internet.

This weekend I am going to be crazy busy getting ready for my Open Studio. Lots of nails will be going in the walls as I decide where to hang everything. Also, I need to figure out what we’ll be serving. Probably Christmas cookies of some sort, in addition to other stuff. I’d love to serve glühwein (hot mulled wine), but I don’t think that’d be feasible unless I rented some equipment, and I’m probably too lazy to do that. Could be an idea for next year, though.

November is Art Every Day Month. I’ll be posting a new small painting here each and every day. After they have had time to dry (a couple weeks), most of the original paintings will also appear in my Etsy shop. Paintings from the beginning of the month are already there! Christmas cards, too.

Tags: Art Every Day Month, cityscape, daily painting, Germany, Munich, oils, painting

Day 24: Thanksgiving dumpling squash

Dumpling squash, 13 x 18 cm, oil on canvas, €70, ©2011 Julie Galante. Original painting available for sale on Etsy.

If there were any wall space whatsoever in my kitchen, I might like to hang this painting in there. It reminds me how tasty these squash are. Can’t wait to roast up the models for lunch!

This Thanksgiving, I am especially thankful for all of you who take the time to look at my art, comment on posts, and in general offer support to me as an artist. I couldn’t do it without you!

November is Art Every Day Month. I’ll be posting a new small painting here each and every day. After they have had time to dry (a couple weeks), most of the original paintings will also appear in my Etsy shop. Paintings from the beginning of the month are already there! Christmas cards, too.

Tags: Art Every Day Month, daily painting, oils, painting, still life, vegetables

Day 23: Evening at the Christmas Market

Evening at the Christmas Market, 15 x 15 cm, oil on canvas, €65, ©2011 Julie Galante. [SOLD]

The Munich Christmas markets start this weekend! Yay!

I am busy getting ready for my December 4th Open Studio. Invitations went out yesterday, and it has been so fun hearing back from people who are excited to come. If you’ll be in Munich that date and would like an invitation, please contact me (you can find my email address on the About Page).

November is Art Every Day Month. I’ll be posting a new small painting here each and every day. After they have had time to dry (a couple weeks), most of the original paintings will also appear in my Etsy shop. Paintings from the beginning of the month are already there! Christmas cards, too.

Tags: Art Every Day Month, Christmas, Christmas market, cityscape, daily painting, Germany, Munich, oils, painting

Day 22: Dementor Bridge

Gebsattelstraße, 18 x 24 cm, oil on canvas, ©2011 Julie Galante. [SOLD]

This is a bridge in my Munich neighborhood which has a creepy-looking statue of the Münchner Kindl (the city’s cloak-wearing mascot) on it; some friends have dubbed it Dementor Bridge, due to the Kindl’s similarity to certain characters in the Harry Potter books. I think it’s a name that’s going to stick, at least in my head.

This painting is the third of my AEDM ones to sell before being dry enough to list in my Etsy shop. Have to love those enthusiastic collectors!

November is Art Every Day Month. I’ll be posting a new small painting here each and every day. After they have had time to dry (a couple weeks), most of the original paintings will also appear in my Etsy shop. Paintings from the beginning of the month are already there! Christmas cards, too.

Tags: Art Every Day Month, cityscape, daily painting, Germany, Munich, oils, painting

Day 21: Brussels sprout snake

Brussels sprout stalk, 24 x 18 cm, oil on canvas, €120, ©2011 Julie Galante.

I never really thought about how brussels sprouts grew until a stand at our local farmers market started selling stalks of them. This painting is just the very top of the stalk. The whole thing is a few feet long and has little sprouts growing the whole way down.

At first I wasn’t entirely happy with this painting, but after a bit it started growing on me. Turned on its side, it looks kind of like a skeletal snake-monster.

November is Art Every Day Month. I’ll be posting a new small painting here each and every day. After they have had time to dry (a couple weeks), the original paintings will also appear in my Etsy shop. Paintings from the beginning of the month are already there! Christmas cards, too.

Tags: Art Every Day Month, oils, painting, still life, vegetables