Julietchapman 

14 creative works found

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  Breakaway
  by Julie Chapman

  A red-shirted Montana cowgirl catches her calf as her sleek chestnut mount rears to a stop, helping her set the rope. An abstract background isolates the action of the breakaway roping team, highlighting the dust kicked up by the horse’s sliding stop. A hot summer sun picks out the shiny highlights on the horse’s coat.

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  Out of the Shadows
  by Julie Chapman

  This gorgeous young cougar male was posing for us at dawn, and his steady gaze and slinky body were fabulous artistic inspiration. I placed him in an abstract setting of black, purple, and orange to pick up on the gorgeous warm tones and cool shadows on his body.

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  Brass
  by Julie Chapman

  Magpies are so colorful and so full of chutzpah that painting this bold bird was a joy – trying to describe the metallic blue and green plumage, the natty black and white effects, the long tail, and putting the magpie into an abstract green and yellow background was enormous fun. This piece was juried into the 2003 Birds in Art international exhibition, which is quite difficult to get into (only 30 to 40 U.S. painters get in each year).

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  Painted Night
  by Julie Chapman

  A gorgeous paint/pinto wild stallion follows his band through a snowy, moonlit night somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. This was the first moonlight painting (nocturne) I’ve done and was juried into the Oil Painters of America annual national exhibition in 2006. The original oil is 24×36 and is available at Legacy Gallery in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

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  Morning Siesta
  by Julie Chapman

  Two colorful chestnut adult horses, one a pinto, stand watch over a chestnut overo pinto foal during the drowsy time of mid-morning on a sunny summer’s day. I used lavendar, yellow-green, and grass green to suggest the warmth and light of the day.

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  Dreadnought
  by Julie Chapman

  I watched this cow moose feeding in an Alaskan pond at dawn; she would submerge her head, then when coming up she held her ears down to let the water drain out. At some point she decided she either had had enough of us watching her, or wanted the foliage where we were, because she came at us through the water with a little too much intensity. That’s what I’ve painted here.

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  The Matriarch
  by Julie Chapman

  I saw this beautiful bison girl just after dawn in Yellowstone National Park one autumn, and painted her in a very abstract background – just emphasizing the warm golden hues of her hide and of that time of year. The original was acquired by the Missoula Hilton hotel, and is now the first thing that guests see when they enter the lobby.

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  You Go Girl
  by Julie Chapman

  A Montana cowgirl on a beautiful chestnut horse rounds a red, white, and blue barrel in the fast-paced rodeo event of barrel racing. The abstract background, swirling with grays and tans, suggests the arena dust kicked up on this sunny summer day in a small western town in the Rocky Mountains.

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  Nabbed
  by Julie Chapman

  Rodeo pickup riders have the crazy job of catching the broncs after the bronc rider has been bucked off, all while thundering around the dusty arena at a gallop. The color and action are intense – here, a red-shirted cowboy on a good-looking palomino mount leans over to grab the lead-rope on a liver saddle bronc.

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  Centrifugal Force
  by Julie Chapman

  A white-shirted Montana cowgirl and her chestnut horse lean hard into the turn around the red-white-and-blue barrel in the fast-paced rodeo event of barrel racing.

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  All American
  by Julie Chapman

  This young woman proudly carried the American flag during her drill team’s pre-rodeo performance; her red vest, black pants, and white shirt created wonderful harmony with the spots on her POA (Pony of the Americas) mount, and led me to a colorful abstract background in creating the painting.

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  Classic
  by Julie Chapman

  I saw this happy black-and-white farm dog in the back of a vintage red pickup truck at a small-town summertime parade here in Montana – and everything about the scene was classic. It was great fun to compose and paint the image.

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  Summer Color
  by Julie Chapman

  A gorgeous chestnut overo foal on a bright midsummer day in the Rocky Mountains was the inspiration for this colorful piece with its abstract background full of the hues of summer.

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  Chestnut Dreams
  by Julie Chapman

  A young chestnut stands in a reflective pose against an abstract background of lavendar and cream. The beautiful shadows and neck muscles especially inspired this piece.