Beer garden season
Biergarten at Viktualienmarkt, 40 x 50 cm, oil on canvas, ©2012 Julie Galante. [SOLD] Munich is a wonderful city in the summer. There are beer gardens everywhere. Long wooden tables shaded by chestnut trees make a perfect setting for enjoying some beer with friends on a long summer afternoon. You can bring a picnic, too. [...]
Munich painting: a sunny day at Cafe Nymphenburg Sekt, Viktualienmarkt
Cafe Nymphenburg Sekt at the Viktualienmarkt, 50 x 60 cm, oil on canvas, ©2012 Julie Galante. The daily paintings in my studio these days are all about sushi, but the larger works on my easel are mostly new Munich scenes. In this one I tried to capture a bit of the jumble of colors and [...]
Daily painting: inspired by sushi
Sushi Rolls on a Red Plate, 20 x 20 cm, oil on canvas, ©2012 Julie Galante. Original painting available on Etsy. Despite all the yummy spring fruits and veggies that are showing up at the farmers markets in Germany these days, I have been struggling to find something that interested me as a still life [...]
Daily Painting: Zurich with another funny sky
Zurich Riverfront: Yellow Sky, 18 x 24 cm, oil on canvas board, ©2012 Julie Galante. [SOLD] We recently went on vacation (Italy – yay!), and before we left I found myself with a motley assortment of colors still wet on my palette. Hating to let good oil paint go to waste, I challenged myself to [...]