Hi everyone!

Please note – newly added:  Arty Gifts and Gallery see top of the Category list >>>

Also, I have refreshed many of the free lessons also listed in Categories for anyone wishing to enjoy and explore the creative world of art! 

I am available through the Comments box and welcome your feedback.  Happy arting!

     Julie Duell … Australian Artist  B.1941

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 To find the FREE ART LESSONS  …  GO TO MENU CATEGORIES & CLICK ON  YOUR CHOICE  OF SUBJECT.  You need to then click on the heading to fully open each page.

PREFER VIDEO DEMONSTRATIONS?   Open ALL YOUTUBE TUTORIALS in Menu Categories.

You may also like to check out Julie’s free companion site to this,  for teachers, parents and children.  HELPFUL FOR HOME SCHOOLING. https://www.kidsfuncorner.wordpress.com

Copyright:  All work created by Julie Duell is subject to copyright protection, copyright having been assigned in 2019 to the artist’s daughter, Melissa Roberts. Whilst this site may be viewed without charge, permission to reproduce contents should be sought via julieduell.artist@gmail.com

Disclaimer:  Please note that the information provided in this site is shared with the best intent from my own personal experience and not to be taken as undisputed fact.  It is up to us all to discover our own reality but I hope to help open up that journey for you.   Julie Duell

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  INDEX TO OTHER SITES BY JULIE DUELL:

http://www.kidsfuncorner.wordpress.com   A free creative site for children, parents and teachers.

http://www.johnduellnaturalisthome.wordpress.com Stories of an Aussie larrikin – adventurous & humorous.  A free eBook!

http://www.cooktownharrisancestry.wordpress.com – the life and times of Julie’s great-grandparents in Cooktown, Queensland in the 1800s.

https://www.australianpioneers.wordpress.com  “Grandpa’s Box!”  A good read about some of our Aussie pioneers in 1800s set in Hill End, Clarence River, Woolgoolga, Cooktown and Palmer River, Nth. Qld.  Fiction based on fact. 

 http://www.julieduellcreations.wordpress.com for an overview of Julie’s many avenues of creative pursuits.

Also: several of Julie’s richly illustrated children’s books are now available on Kindle – you may like to check them out. They will come up under her name.

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I’m just popping in this short story by way of encouragement for those of you who wish to venture into the field of illustration. Mostly I draw or paint but on this occasion, made the models of the owls out of fibre. Other books I have illustrated are on Kindle children’s books and on http://www.kidsfuncorner.wordpress.com

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 82,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see it.

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Aligned closely with visual pictures are the realms of short stories, treasured memories and poetry.   These can be married to art through background imagery or stronger illustration.  In the interest of sharing, here are a few of mine which might inspire you to try this if you haven’t already:

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MY FIRST ENCHANTING EXPERIENCE

When I was just 3 years old back in 1944 I went for a walk with my parents beside a small creek in Sassafras Gully near Springwood in the Blue Mountains where we lived.  My mother sent me on ahead to search for fairies.  After skipping along for a while I came across the most beautiful sparkling white fairy standing under a fern frond!  I have just painted my memory of how she looked to me…

She was of course, a fairy doll my mother had planted there for me to find but I didn’t know that then.  Some time later I recall being devastated when my fairy’s lovely porcelain head broke.  Mum took it away and brought back my fairy with a Mountain Devil seedpod head instead!

I was so horrified, I remember saying to her “Mummy! I will never forgive you!”   Oh dear – well I WAS only 3 and have apologised many times since!

______________________________Julie Duell c.2015

 

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

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The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 74,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.

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  Beginnings: Julie Duell (nee Henderson) is a 6th generation Australian going back to the First Fleet of English convicts to arrive in Sydney cove in 1788.  She also has a lineage from English free settlers plus a drop of American Shoshone Indian heritage for good measure!  Julie was born in Hurstville, Sydney, NSW on 9th July, 1941 and continued to reside in Sydney environs thereafter.  She was named after the month of her birth, July.

Julie’s parents were both musical, artistic and encouraging of creativity – so within the environment of a solitary childhood in the bush, she flourished. Over many prolific artistic years, Julie has painted under the names Julie Ferguson and J. Ferguson-Duell before simply signing her works Julie Duell. As a child, she studied art at St.George Technical College, Kogarah along with taking private lessons in singing.

Adult years saw Julie resume her art studies, once again at St.George Technical College and then numerous short courses on the Central Coast, where – along with raising a family – she has been a prolific practising artist and art teacher since moving there in 1967 from Gymea/Cronulla regions. Inspiration:  Nature, children, a fascination for human form, body language, illustration and portraiture.  Also a deep passion for Australiana through the fairy realm.

Mediums of expression:  Painting & drawing in charcoal, oils, pastels, inks, watercolour and acrylics – with many works executed in mixed media. Julie’s book creations feature fairies in the form of Sprites, representing the spirit of the unique Australian bushland and are rich with full colour illustrations, rhymes and an adventure story.  Julie has also manifested the Sprites in clay and resin models, animated stories, art jewellery pendants and plays for children. Among a number of awards over the years, Julie’s first book “Bush Sprites of Australia” (a hand-made limited edition made over 1600 hours) attracted special recognition in the form of an award from the Riso Educational Foundation of Japan in 1985, along with 3rd prize in an International Postcard Competition that year. Riso delegates travelled to Australia for this special presentation.  Julie later self-published a further version of “Bush Sprites of Australia”, along with  “Forest Sprites of Australia” and  “Joy & the Bush Sprites”, all of which are available direct from Julie.    Keen to share her love of the bush with children, Julie then wrote 2 environmental plays, making all the costumes and props in her home studio.  Aided by partner Tony, Julie presented “Friends of the Bush” in 5  Central Coast schools with Kindergarten to Year 3 children in 2006/7.     In  2006  Julie wrote and illustrated “Somethin’ Fishy” – a tribute to her late husband, John Duell, an avid Naturalist.  The book was launched at MacMasters Beach where she and John lived for 20 years together and all proceeds were donated to Waterfall Springs Wildlife Sanctuary at Kulnura to help save endangered wallabies. In 2008 Julie won 1st prize in the non indigenous section of the Reconciliation Week Aboriginal Artists Art Exhibition & Competition with her painting “Dreamscape 1”. In 2010, she won 1st prize in the Rotary of Umina Portrait Prize for her portrait of partner, Tony La Spina (ex High School & TAFE art/ceramics teacher from Coffs Harbour.)   In 2014  Julie won 1st – Open Section Award in the Margaret Smith Memorial Art Prize at the Gosford Regional Show for her painting “Flamenco”: Teaching:    Over 40+ years, Julie has taught art on the Central Coast.  Firstly at adult evening college for Dept. of Education, numerous private classes at her MacMasters Beach Seagal Studio and workshops for local Art Societies.   She instigated the Central Coast Art Society’s Children’s classes in the 1980s and designed the CCAS logo. Around 2005 Julie combined with her partner, Tony La Spina in art teaching pursuits for Kincumber Community College and Art Society workshops. Now retired, but busier than ever, Julie enjoys taking occasional workshops and teaching online through her websites.

Websites:  Since 2002 Julie has enjoyed much world-wide interaction through her websites: http://www.artintegrity.wordpress.com which offers a large range of free art lessons and a personal gallery of artwork. http://www.kidsfuncorner.wordpress.com  is a creative site she has designed for children, parents and teachers.  This site often enjoyed first rating in the Art category listings on “Kids Websites”.  Along with art tuition Julie has created a number of interactive games and animated educational stories on this site, including ones featuring her many Sprite characters.  The stories are graded for non readers/first readers/more advanced.

Singing has been a constant for Julie, especially since 1997 when she has enjoyed vocal solos and group singing/acting.  Here are a couple of short video clips …

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I am delighted to present below the results of a children’s animation project conducted with Grade 3/4, Vernon Elementary School, Vernon, B.C. Canada 2013.   Stemming from the initiative of teacher Candice Young, 23 children created action drawings to send to me to animate.   

I wish to thank Candice for this interaction, which was so enjoyable by all.  I also wish to thank you, the children, who put so much care and imagination into your drawings.  I hope you will be inspired in the future to learn more about the wonderful creative world of illustration, cartooning & animation.

I am showing each animation in slow and faster speeds, so that you can see each change in movement and how they become smoother as they are sped up.   All of these animations are set on a “loop” which means they repeat the action over and over. Names and ages of the children are shown before each picture:

Aisha, 8

Alyssa 8 

Emma M 8

Candice 8

Lucjan 8

Stephanie 9

Andre 8

Coda 8

Colby 8

Drew 8

Jordan 8

Josh 8

Kairi 8

Kennedy 8

Kieran 8

Vandam 11 

Paris 8

Lucjan 8

Marek 8

Rory 9

Emma H  8

Steven 8

Trista 8

Wonderful work everyone!  Congratulations! Here is my animation for you!  Julie

The following YouTubes are distributed throughout the categories where they support other information – however in case you prefer to learn solely from visual demonstrations in action, I have grouped them here together for you. Happy viewing!  Julie

This one is for kids, but grownups can have fun with it too!

This is one for the children – to help them learn basic colour mixing:

WELCOME to our brand new ARTY GIFTS & GALLERY

All art & craft shown below is the unique work of Australian Artist, Julie Duell  ( 2019 Copyright assigned to Melissa Roberts, the Artist’s daughter)

Each artwork offered for sale is shown in $Australian (plus P&H quoted for your area) sent from the Central Coast of NSW, Australia.  

If you would like further information or to place an order, please make contact through this form:

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Listed first are Julie’s unique original hand needle-felted paintings – some framed under glass & others left open – free to touch the 3D beautiful soft colourful mixed fibres. These fibre paintings are relatively small, light & affordable, making ideal special gifts.

Following the fibre art, the display below will include more small paintings in mixed media and other gift ideas.

100 “Solitary Sail” 33x24cm free standing white wood frame with glass, mixed fibres, shell, 1kg  $48

101 “Wild & Woolly” 32x24cm free standing or wall hanger white wood frame with glass, mixed fibres, 800gm … $46

102 “The Race” 32x24cm, free standing or wall hanger white wood frame, signed JD, no glass, mixed fibres, 600gm… $48

103 “The Old Boatshed” 32x24cm white wood frame, free standing or wall hanger, no glass, 600gm … $45

104 “River Bend” 32x24cm white wood frame, no glass, wall hanger, mixed fibres, 600gm $50

105 “Green tree frog” 24x24cm, White wood frame, wall hanger, no glass, mixed fibres, 700gm … $54

107 “Blue wren” 25x19cm beige wooden frame with white slip, no glass, free standing or wall hanger, mixed fibres & beads 400gm.  $48

109 “Sugar glider” 24x19cm, mixed fibre & bark, free standing or wall hanger, black wood frame with white slip & glass, 400g $30

110 “Fluoro fish” 25x20cm, acrylic on stretched canvas, wall hanging, 300gm $35

111 “Gecko games” 32x27cm, white wood frame with matt & glass, wall hanging, signed, mixed media on yupo paper, 810gm $55

112 “Turtle magic” 32x27cm white wood frame amp; matt, glass, mixed media on yupo paper, signed, 810gm  $55

114 “Platypus play” 30x27cm, Mixed media on yupo paper, white wood frame (tiny scratch), white matt & glass, wall hanging. 800gm $52

115 “Gecko” 32x25cm, painted wood frame with white matt & glass, wall hanging, mixed media on yupo paper, 900gm $45

116 “Kelp” 32x27cm, wall hanging, wood frame (very small rub mark) with white matt & glass, 700gm $30

118 “Hi Mr.Percival!” 30x30x4 wall hanging, Acrylic on stretched canvas 400gm $35

120 “Red Centre II” 20x20x2cm, wall hanging, Acrylic on stretched canvas, 200gm $45

121 “Red Centre III” 20x20x4cm, wall hanging, Acrylic on stretched canvas 200gm $48

122 “Down by the lake” 20xx20x4cm, wall hanging, Acrylic on stretched canvas , 420gm $55

123 “Seagulls”: 39x29cm, Acrylic on wooden palette, 300gm,can be displayed on small easel or plate stand $65 (Bonus orig. poem by artist on back)

124. “Tropical Paradise” 39x29cm, Mixed media on wooden palette for display on plate stand   $77

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GALLERY   

The following paintings by Julie Duell will be appearing in Lloyds online auction soon, during 2021.

Kimberley Country

Nearly home, Nundle NSW

Bush Majesty

Rainy day in Dublin

Feeding the gulls

Kimberley country II

Fraser Island rainforest walk

Sisterhood II – oil on board 120×80