She received her B.S. in Medical Illustration from the Ohio State University in 1984. Her formative years were spent painting and drawing under the direction of her mother, the painter Barbara Doane Larick. In 1989 she studied at the Georgetown Studio School in Washington, D.C., and in 1991 Julie spent a year at Washington University in St. Louis, MO as a post-graduate studying painting with William Hawk. She has earned a living for many years as a Medical Illustrator concurrently maintaining a painting studio and showing her art. She is also available to complete commissioned portraits.