If you would like to use any of my paintings for your business or personal promotional advertising (Event posters, flyers, cards, websites etc) please contact me. Painted backgrounds are brilliant for ‘Impact Advertising.’ All paintings have been professionally photographed, are completely original, and an excellent quality image can be supplied on disc or by email. A small commission fee is required.
Examples of postcard and A3 actual reproductions from my paintings..
Postcard for Hogarth Singers summer concert. Click for full size view.
A3 Poster for Hogarth Singers summer concert. Click for full size view.
A big thank you to my brother Jimm for Flash animating this painting! You can see the original static painting below and how he has made the various features come to life. The original painting ‘Last light on Reva Reservoir‘ is for sale and Jimms skills are for hire! You can find out more about Jimm here.
Acrylic painting: Last light on Reva Reservoir. Acrylic on canvas (40×50 cms) by Julia Odell.
Acrylic Painting : Last Light on Reva Reservoir. Click on image for a larger view.
Reva Reservoir is found on the Otley Road, very close to Bingley (West Yorkshire), and was completed in 1874. It is considered to be a Yorkshire attraction and groups are often there sailing at weekends. It’s a strange reservoir because it appears to have been thrust upon the landscape – as though a giant had simply placed a massive bowl down and allowed it to fill with water! The land just falls away at the side. In this painting I hoped to capture the last light (or gloaming).
This painting is available for sale so please contact me for more information or to arrange a private viewing. Painted with artists quality ‘professional’ Daler Rowney Cryla paints.
Oil on canvas view of Almscliffe Cragg from Stainburn Chruch by Julia Odell. (80×55 cm). Built in several layers using Daler Rowney oil paints.
Oil painting Almscliffe Cragg from Stainburn Chruch. Click on image for a larger view
En route to my studio in April 2010 I was pleasantly surprised to come across this view of Almscliffe Cragg from the Otley side (Only just outside Otley to the north east). Probably one of the lesser seen views – but well worth a look. Find St Marys church at Stainburn and walk through to the back. There is a gate leading to a public footpath across the hills. If you stop at the gate you are rewarded with this view. I’m sure the villagers of Stainburn keep it a closely guarded secret!
I photographed this in my studio while the paint was still wet under low light and fluorescent tubes – So not great quality … and the surface is still shiny! I will add it to my main gallery once the paint is dry and it has been professionally photographed.
This is not a commission so it is for sale! Please contact me for more information and to arrange a private viewing.
Regards
Julia
Update: I’m secretly pleased that this painting has won 2 Flickr awards in under 48hrs! Please see my Flickr Photostream for more.
I’m currently working on an oil painting of Reva Reservoir near Otley, West Yorkshire. I thought I’d keep a blog for the progress of this painting so you can see how I build my paintings in stages. Others may do it differently but this is how I do it!
After taking many photographs of the scene I made a few pencil sketches and ultimately came up with a rough acrylic sketch (Which i’ll use as the basis for the actual painting). I used Daler Rowney Cryla acrylics for this sketch..
Initial acrylic sketch of Reva Reservoir near Otley
Then I stretched the canvas, added a yellow ochre background and let that dry. Once dry I painted a very simple outline of the basic image. The outline is only a guide and i paint over it and alter the areas if needed…
Reva Reservoir - Phase 1 - Ochre background and lining out
Next I quickly underpainted the basic areas of the painting using the darkest colours (I’ll be working from dark to light)…
Reva Reservoir - Phase 2 - Underpainting
and that’s it to date. I’ll update this post the next few days once the underpainting has dried and i can do more work..
22nd Aug: Preparing to move studios. Relocating to Otley. All hands on deck!!
6th Aug: Currently working on a large scale semi abstract canvas and framing 7 paintings for the Ilkley Art Show. 12th-14th Aug. Winter Gardens, Ilkley.
2nd Aug: Harrogate Open.
Two paintings selected for the Harrogate Open Exhibition at Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate. 31st July - 12th Sept.
You can find out more about Jimm 
I will add it to my main gallery once the paint is dry and it has been professionally photographed.
