It was such a privilege getting to speak to Julia Jacquette today and have her walk us through some of her paintings and the thought processes behind them. The longer I looked at the paintings, the more impressed I was. For some of her paintings, Julia used advertisements as inspiration. I was very impressed by how she managed to pick out these beautiful intricate aspects of advertisements and paint them in a way that is so realistic that I had to do a double take when I learned that they were not photographs.

I was particularly drawn to Julia’s “gold paintings.” I like how she is able to use whites, browns, yellows, greens, and purples to make a painting look gold.

My favorite painting by far is the one of Charlize Theron’s J’adore Dior gold dress detail. I cannot gush enough about how beautiful and accurate this painting is, so I will let the comparison between the painting and photo speak for itself.

 

I also really like this painting with a similar color palette- the painting of a whiskey glass.

Even though this painting is not gold, it is in the warmer temperature hues, so close enough. The bottom left face reminded me a lot of Mandy Moore. I wonder if she is who Julia painted there? Do the other faces remind you of any celebrities that you know?