Julie R. Neidlinger: Art and Store

Brushes and Bottle.

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Sooner or later, when desperate for material, every artist draws something from their studio.

Kind of a self-portrait, in a way.

Materials: Charcoal, watercolor and gesso on cold-press watercolor paper
Size: approx. 15" X 20"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $25

Labels: abstract, mixed media, still life

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Weight.

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Using scraps from a friend's prints (which she had torn up and was about to dispose of when I asked if I could have them) and various materials, this collage painting came to be.

I bet you'd like me to tell you the story behind it.

Tough bet.

Materials: Charcoal, acrylic, gesso, acrylic mediums, collage
Size: approx. 22" X 30"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat, possibly rolled in a protective tube
Price: $60

Labels: abstract, figurative, illustrations, mixed media

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Waterfall.

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Periodically, I use the excuse that I have paint drying on my palette that I need to use up as a way of letting myself just slap paint on the paper and see what happens.

This ended up looking like a waterfall.

I know I should have a much more artsy way of describing how it came to be, but no. That's pretty much it. I like it. That's good enough for me.

Materials: Acrylic painting
Size: 6" X 7"
Price: SOLD

Labels: abstract, nature, paintings

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Horse Statue

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This painting is based on a photo I took in front of the Art Museum in Hamburg, Germany.

It is one of my favorite paintings, a strange few hours where I somehow saw the statue in brushstrokes and colliding colors.

Materials: Acrylic paint on canvas paper
Size: 9" X 14"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: SOLD

Labels: abstract, animals, horses, paintings, sold

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Red Clouds.

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Clouds are ambiguous by nature. You see what you want to in them. Maybe like tea leaves in the sky.

This is an abstract and primary-colored take on clouds, with some nice scrubbed and dry brushwork techniques used to creat layers.

Materials: Acrylic paint on heavy rag paper
Size: 5" X 7"
Other: Shipped without mat or frame
Price: $35

Labels: abstract, paintings

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The City Where I Love You.

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In a college class, I read the poetry of Li-Young Lee. His book entitled The City In Which I Love You captured my attention for a while. The title itself worked its way around my mind.

I know this feeling of a place where normal life seems to stop for a bit and the strangeness of a different place made me certain that this was the city I loved someone. Leaving the city meant I left that behind, whether I wanted to or not. It's this thing I relegated to a place; the person, the feeling, the moment, the memory -- left there. That way I could associate the memory with geography and find it easy to locate and easy to leave, like a city.

There are people I loved in cities, in places, whether they knew it or not. Maybe it wasn't love. But it was something.

Materials: Acrylic paint on BFK Rives paper
Size: 4.5" x 11"
Other: Painting is sold and shipped unframed, no mat.
Price: SOLD

Labels: abstract, landscapes, paintings, sold

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Eyes are Dry

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You can read more about this painting here, including the inspiration behind it as well as a step-by-step photograph pictorial of how it was created.

Materials: Collage, ink, acrylic, gesso, charcoal, paper
Size: 14" x 22"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $90

Labels: abstract, collage, figurative, mixed media

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Walking on Wings

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This small painting is both recognizable and not. It's clear that there is a human figure in the image, but the rest of the details change depending upon who is looking at it and how they interpret it.

Materials: Acrylic on paper
Size: 5" x 7"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: SOLD

Labels: abstract, figurative, paintings, sold

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Inner Machine

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Maybe I read and watch too much Science Fiction, but the concept of the "inner machine" is one that rolls about in my mind.

This is the visual depiction of the idea. The "brain" of this painting is made up of the acrylic peelings from my old palettes, full of swirls and dobs, very much a high-raised three dimensional effect, adhered by pouring clear acrylic medium onto the painting. What this means is that you can't simply lay a piece of glass over this painting; you'll need a mat or other method to raise it from the surface. It also means it looks very unusual up close.

That's the inner machine I'm talking about.

Materials: Acrylic paint, water crayon, ink on paper
Size: 22" X 15"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $90

Labels: abstract, collage, figurative, mixed media

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Angel Wing

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What can I say?

I'm obsessed with wings. I draw them all the time, sticking them on people and animals and inanimate objects.

Materials: Pastel on paper
Size: 11" X 15"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $30

Labels: abstract, drawings, figurative

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Kristi

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My friend Kristi often found herself the unfortunate guinea pig for me during college. Her face can be found in a number of my drawings and in my sketchbook. If I needed a model, there she was.

This painting is an abstraction on her face many times over.

Materials: Ink, acrylics, collage, charcoal and gesso
Size: About 30" X 44"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $100

Labels: abstract, collage, figurative, mixed media

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Color Safari

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This rather odd painting was an example of using color that I created during a class I taught on the matter to elementary students.

Materials: Charcoal, tempera paint
Size: 11" X 15"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: Sold

Labels: abstract, figurative, mixed media, sold, whimsical

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Colorful Horse

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This painting came about, oddly enough, as a way for me to use up the remaining paint on my palette.

I'm not one to skimp when I squeeze paint out on my palette, but I am one to despise waste.

I started mixing at random and, of course, the first thing I started to paint was a horse. Naturally.

My brother laughed at the painting when he saw me working on it. He said it was ugly, that it didn't look like a real horse and the colors were weird.

That made me like it all the more. This painting has lots of thick, brush-evident layers. It's one of my favorite paintings.

Materials: Acrylic paint on BFK Rives paper
Size: 22" X 15"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $150

Labels: abstract, animals, horses, paintings

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Colorful Greyhound

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I've done many greyhound paintings, depicting them in their various well-known positions.

As always, I like to use a lot of color.

Materials: Acrylic paint on BFK Rives paper
Size: 22" X 30"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: SOLD

Labels: abstract, animals, greyhounds, paintings, sold

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Verdigris Greyhound

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I've done many greyhound paintings, depicting them in their various well-known positions.

As always, I like to use a lot of color.

This painting is particularly difficult to capture in a photograph because of the use of metallic paint in it to create the look of weathered (verdigris) copper. It's a bit lighter than it appears here. I also used a blunt stick to create "engraved" lines into the thickly painted surface of the image, giving the painting a lot of wonderful visual and actual texture.

Materials: Wheat flour, acrylic paint, and gesso on paper
Size: 15" X 22"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: SOLD

Labels: abstract, animals, greyhounds, paintings, sold

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Deck View

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My "outdoor" studio, which is the second floor deck just off my office and regular studio, is what allows me to use oil paints and other typically noxious smelling materials in my art. Since I am not able to work outside during the cold winter, you will find me only working in water-based media until the weather warms up again.

Since I spend so much time out on the deck, it was inevitable that I would try to capture the scenery from my favorite deck view. This painting is what I see, late-summer, when I look to the south. The cottonwood tree frames my view on the right, its rustling leaves keeping me company as I work on my projects. The slough and every-yellowing fields are beautiful, indeed. I think of it all as visual music to work by, the foundation for whatever I'm working on from my vantage point on the deck.

My goal with this painting was to not get lost in the detail, of which there was much, and instead capture the blocked-in colors I get a sense of out of the corner of my eye as I'm working. The cerulean sky, the rich green grass, the ochre fields of grain, the blues of the sloughs and gray ribbons of road all play a part in the final scene. These are, coincidently, colors I find myself constantly restocking in my own paint collection, colors I'm naturally drawn to including in paintings that have nothing to do with landscapes or similar subject matter.

It's funny what an outdoor studio can do in influencing an entire palette, and way of working.

Materials: Acrylic paint on paper
Size: 22" x 30"
Other: Painting is sold and shipped unframed, no mat.
Price: SOLD

Labels: abstract, landscapes, nature, north dakota, paintings, sold

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Three Bottles 1

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This simple study of three bottles, done by first drawing them out on white paper with white wax (i.e. I couldn't see what I was drawing and so I was forced to observed and guess) turned out to be a fun painting.

I love the free feeling of it, the looseness of the final image.

Materials: Watercolor and wax on paper
Size: 6" x 8"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: SOLD

Labels: abstract, mixed media, sold, still life

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Hummingbird

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Hummingbirds seemed the perfect subject matter for making sure that I didn't get to caught up in detail, their wings whizzing along so quickly that the birds are like floating blurs.

The red flowers might as well be blurs, too.

Materials: Acrylic paint on paper
Size: 20" X 11"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: SOLD

Labels: abstract, animals, floral, paintings, sold

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Blue Bottle Flower 2

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I had purchased a bottle of water imported from England. The glass bottle was a brilliant blue, unlike bottles you see now. It reminded me of the colored glass bottles of many years ago. You'll often see this blue bottle cropping up in many of my paintings and photographs. It's a favorite subject of mine.

It's strange, the way I latch onto things, how the most ordinary thing becomes a central figure in my work.

Materials: Acrylic on paper
Size: 12" X 30"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: SOLD

Labels: abstract, floral, paintings, still life

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Roots

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On a week-long horseback trip to the mountains in Wyoming, I took many photographs of the nature surrounding the trail. One of these photos was of a large root clump, the tree having long fallen down with only an upturned section of roots remaining.

I wanted to capture the tangled sense of wildness through the use of a variety of materials, hoping that not only the final visual result would depcit the roots, but also that the foundations and the means of building up the painting would help in that goal, also.

The colors are rich, warm purples and oranges, with criss-crossing textures that become their own minature mountain valleys upon closer inspection. Though abstract in nature, the result is very warm and not confusing.

Materials: Charcoal, rice paper, acrylic paint and mediums, and gesso on BFK Rives paper
Size: 22" X 30"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $100

Labels: abstract, collage, mixed media, nature

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Forest

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On a week-long horseback trip to the mountains in Wyoming, I took many photographs of the nature surrounding the trail. Many of these photos included the surrounding pine forest with both alive and dead trees.

I wanted to capture the prickly sense I got from the pine trees. The live ones obviously were prickly through their pine needles. But the dead trees, still standing with bare branches jutting out from the trunk, were visually prickly, almost like a view of a pine needle up close.

The colors are rich, warm purples and oranges, with criss-crossing textures that become their own minature mountain valleys upon closer inspection. Though abstract in nature, the result is very warm and not confusing

Materials: Charcoal, acrylic paint, watercolor paint, gesso and acrylic mediums on BFK paper
Size: 22" X 30"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $100

Labels: abstract, mixed media, nature

Brushes and Bottle.

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Weight.

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Waterfall.

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Horse Statue

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Red Clouds.

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The City Where I Love You.

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Eyes are Dry

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Walking on Wings

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Inner Machine

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Angel Wing

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Kristi

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Color Safari

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Colorful Horse

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Colorful Greyhound

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Verdigris Greyhound

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Deck View

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Three Bottles 1

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Hummingbird

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Blue Bottle Flower 2

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Roots

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Forest

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