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julialundman · 2 days

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World Bee Day 🐝 (part of a triptych, oil and gold leaf on panel, 2019)

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julialundman · 18 days

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“Magpie Inkcap”, acrylagouache and 14 k gold, is coming to Modern Eden gallery in San Francisco May 11th for the group show, “Field Trip”. This is a mushroom found in Northern Europe and North America. It can sometimes be poisonous and other times not, a gamble.

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julialundman · 23 days

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“Flaco, the NYC Eagle-Owl”, 13”x13” watercolor and colored pencil on cream paper. My tribute to Flaco, who escaped his zoo enclosure and made his way over to Central Park. This painting will be on the online gallery website @everydayoriginal tomorrow, April 30th, available to purchase. Thanks for your consideration! 🩷🦉🩷

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julialundman · 2 months

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Some mushroom studies

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julialundman · 2 months

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Some fall leaves studies of leaves I saw in Philadelphia last October. I wanted to test out these Natural Pigments Rublev historic watercolors. I don’t have the full set yet, but the colors I have so far worked out really well for these little studies.

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julialundman · 3 months

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Today is #superbOwl day! Post your #owls !

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julialundman · 3 months

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Happy Lunar New Year 🧧🐉

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julialundman · 3 months

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Chinese New Year is actually a 12 year long personal project for me, where I create a new illustration of the zodiac animal each year, and see how my illustration style has progressed. These go from oldest to newest. So 6 down, 6 more to go!

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julialundman · 4 months

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My latest painting, “The Fledgling” will be on Every Day Original’s website on January 30th. I put a double matte on it so it will be easy to frame. I hope he finds a unicorn loving home! (I web glazed this art)

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julialundman · 4 months

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Slow Horses

Fave viewing over the past few years has been SLOW HORSES on AppleTV+. A spy show with all the intrigues of a John le Carré novel, but if George Smiley was written as a sarcastic smart arse and every other spy was a downbeat comedian.

River Cartwright chased by one of ’The Dogs’.

The show focusses on spies who’ve disgraced themselves, but for various reasons can’t be set free into the wild. We are led into this espionage backwater by an earnest young spy who has become persona non grata with Mi5. His efforts to get back into the slick world of Regent’s Park puts him at the heart of the action in the series. Though he’s from Mi5 royalty (as his grandfather used to head the organisation) he’s banished to a shabby facility called Slough House.

Lamb uses his signature flatulent power-move on Taverner.

This kingdom of losers is ruled by Jackson Lamb, hilariously played by Gary Oldman. Famed for being a chameleon, Oldman is clearly having enormous fun here, playing this jaded old cold warrior, who doesn’t care any more. Lamb has let himself go physically, but is still mentally sharp enough to anticipate when he’s being setup. Which is often, and most likely by his Mi5 boss Diana Taverner (played with deadpan ice queen flair by Kristin Scott Thomas). Her disdain for the screwups of Slough House doesn’t stop her from using their services. These ‘Slow Horses’ are ostensibly kept on by ‘the service’ for menial jobs - filing and desk work - but they are sometimes caught up in intrigues too. Simply because Mi5 often needs fall guys.

Shirley & Marcus pinned down by The Tiger Team.

Mi5 is portrayed as a world of grasping political climbers. The higher up the political totem pole, the more damehoods & knighthoods there are. But ruthless sociopaths abound too. More than willing to sacrifice their underlings if it advances their own interests, or covers up a blunder. The traditional baddies of spy stories are here, but rather than the Russians or international terrorists, domestic political dirty dealing is responsible for most of the body count.

Min & Louisa surprise an intruder at Slough House.

For all their flaws, the Slow Horses have more decency than the ‘winners’. They are prickly & snarky characters, that are nevertheless likeable. A fave of mine is Roddy Ho, Slough House’s IT expert. His hilariously pompous dialog is brilliantly played to the smugly annoying hilt by Christopher Chung. Pint-sized firecracker Shirley Dander (Aimee-Ffion Edwards) and wily old school operative Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves) are a couple of other faves, but honestly, all the characters have their moments.

Roddy analyses the kidnap photo of Standish.

The show-runner is standup comedian & writer Will Smith, who manages to deliver laughs aplenty but also real drama. Main characters can die, and probably when you’d just learned to love them. We enjoyed watching this show so much that, after finishing the 3rd season, we RE-watched the entire thing, and were entertained even more the 2nd time.

Jackson Lamb has an ice cream.

Having just exhausted all the viewing options available, Julia & I just began the book series that the show is based on, by Mick Herron. Though many details differ, the books are remarkably similar to the TV series, tonally. Added background details to the characters & plots make them enjoyable even after seeing the show. Hopefully they will feed us enough Lamb until season 4 drops at the end of 2024.

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julialundman · 5 months

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A few more #treecember drawings - working on these in the evenings ❄️🌲🤍🎨👩‍🎨🎧

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julialundman · 6 months

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Some recent landscape-ish art 🍁🎄❄️

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julialundman · 6 months

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julialundman · 6 months

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I will have two paintings in the group show “Guardians of the Feral Land”, Opening December 1 at the Kuehl Fine Art Gallery. “Bat Riders” and “Water Wight”. Link to the show is here (will be updated when the show opens!) The show is curated by Valarie Savarie, who is also having a solo show.

https://www.armitchellmuseum.com/events/kuel-fine-art-presents-valerie-savarie

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julialundman · 6 months

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