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		<title>Yesterday&#8217;s plein air study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was my plein air study from yesterday&#8217;s class with David Dunlop at Waveny Park in New Canaan.  It was a hot day so I tried to find a place to paint that was shaded.  I think I pretty well captured the feel of the humidity at mid-day.  I am also attaching a picture of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://juliehopkins.com/blog/archives/436</link>
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		<title>Plein air paintings from Gloucester and Rockport last week</title>
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&#8220;Annisquan River Harbor&#8221;  11 x 14



Here are a few more little oil paintings I did on location in Gloucester last week.  We had great weather the whole time and I am finding that I am inclined to use mostly light layers of transparent oil colors in plein air work since they seem to best evoke [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://juliehopkins.com/blog/archives/395</link>
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		<title>Adventures in landscape oil painting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted for a while.  I was away most of June in Italy, and then spent July either catching up with everything I didn&#8217;t do in June, at the beach, or trying to stay cool in the summer heat WITH NO AIR CONDITIONING IN MY HOUSE!  Not an easy feat, believe me.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://juliehopkins.com/blog/archives/366</link>
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		<title>Indian River Soliloquy-revisited</title>
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&#8220;Indian River Soliloquy&#8221;  11 x 14


I originally painted this scene in black pastel only, for the Salmagundi Club&#8217;s Black &#38; White show this past winter.  The drawing was strong, so I decided to add some color.  The new version, &#8220;Indian River Soliloquy,&#8221; will be in the upcoming &#8216;Water Works&#8217; show at the Gregory James [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://juliehopkins.com/blog/archives/343</link>
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		<title>Blog update -finally!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve updated this blog, but I have a Spring 2010 resolution to do so on a regular basis!

Lots happening these days &#8211; I continue to paint regularly with the High Street Painters in Brattleboro, VT and my portrait/figure work in oil is coming along.  I recently took a one-day landscape [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://juliehopkins.com/blog/archives/330</link>
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		<title>Julie&#8217;s October &#8216;Virtual&#8217; Pastel Painting Sale!!!</title>
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I decided to &#8216;clean house&#8217; this month and am having a virtual studio sale on eBay &#8211; first time I&#8217;ve ever tried this but so far it&#8217;s been great!  Here&#8217;s the link to my items &#8211; all are unframed for less expensive shipping, all are originals and most are matted to a standard frame size:
Julie&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://juliehopkins.com/blog/archives/280</link>
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		<title>Spring at Cross River Reservoir</title>
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11&#8243; x 14&#8243;
Pastel on pumiced Gatorboard
The texture of this painting surface was very rough and grooved, and after trying to fight it I just decided to go along with it.  I first built up layers of color using a Styrofoam peanut to blend hard pastel in different areas, and then lightly grazed soft pastels over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://juliehopkins.com/blog/archives/258</link>
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		<title>Underpaintings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was fooling around with watercolor underpaintings today &#8211; the painting on the right was first, with watercolor washes put in and then dark and warm areas highlighted with pastel pencils.  I decided it was too linear and harsh-looking so I put the whole thing in the sink and washed it off, letting the color [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://juliehopkins.com/blog/archives/251</link>
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		<title>Indian River Reflections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[16&#8243; x 20&#8243;
Pastel on pumiced Gatorboard
As promised, here&#8217;s the final version of the work in progress shown a few posts below.

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		<link>http://juliehopkins.com/blog/archives/223</link>
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		<title>Work in Progress</title>
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This is a 16&#8243; x 20&#8243; version of the same Swamp River scene (see below), with just the acrylic underwash done.  I really pushed the bright colors in this one, but will tone it all down with the pastel layers once I resurface the board.  Since getting laid off from my day job in February [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://juliehopkins.com/blog/archives/207</link>
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