Latest Sale Noosa Sunset Acrylic Painting

 This painting was sold at my U3A display at Noosa, the owners home was named " Noosa Sunset" so it was most appropriate. The time has passed quickly in the few weeks since our return from Turkey. After catching up on two years of travel news  Number 2 son is settled back living in Brisbane ,on the tread mill of working 12 hour days after  fun and frivolity travelling the globe. Im sure it wont be long before he is off trekking  again.
My other excuse for no new paintings is surfing the net planning and booking another trip in the new year to Central Europe. The work is just about complete and I can now think about getting involved with new paintings.

Can you smell my French Yogurt Lemon cake,? It should be ready for afternoon tea. This is the second time Ive made it so hope it is just as good this time.
Its time to try out the cake....yum

Daily Painting ,Palette Knife Acrylic Paintings Kenilworth Sunshine Coast Queensland by Chris Hobel

Kenilworth Country

Palette Knife Painting by Chris Hobel 8x8" on box canvas.

Im looking forward to attending an oil painting workshop this weekend with Colley Whisson, a popular Australian Impressionist Painter from just north of Brisbane Queensland.
I notice his classes in the US are full and Ive said to myself for a long time..Im gunna do a colley  workshop soon... Luckily for me its only about an hours drive. I painted this a while back but I have been very slack with blogging over recent times due to our summer heat and all the depressing news, floods, cyclones and fire.. I dont like to use the Air con as the contrast when I leave the studio is too much to take.

Today has been much cooler and Ive painted two 8x8" oil paintings  so that tells me something. The big shape of the shadow took my attention .This area is part of the flood plain of the mary river and Im sure it has been flooded recently.

Tamarama Beach, Sydney, Australia acrylic painting daily painting by Chris Hobel Noosa Artist

Tamarama Beach Sydney Australia Acrylic Painting by Chris Hobel

24x36"

I completed this painting over the last few days as a  birthday present for my son who likes to surf at this  beautiful beach . A bit rushed and done in Jo Sonja acrylic as its needs to be on a plane in a few days. The urban back drop was challenging as I rarely paint city scenes. I loved the colours of the sky

Rainbow Valley Australia, acrylic painting abstracted landscape by Daily painter Chris Hobel another step towards the finish line

Rainbow Valley, Northern Territory Australia

Acrylic Painting with texture by Chris Hobel 

24x36"

I managed to get an interesting long walk  in this mornning on the beach with my trusty umbrella in tow, it was well used  I might say.
As the weather is quite warm the beach  was busy on this public holiday and  a little  rain makes it more fun.  Not so fun now as is bucketing down.
Good painting weather  so I got a few hours work in this afternoon
. I often like my paintings very early on and should have someone there to say ... thats good, leave it.
I feel a painting needs a certain amount of time to be worthy of selling. How crazy is that. I must get over it. These are pretty rough photos as  I had to stand above on a chair for the last one as it was wet on the base.

This is the  almost finished one, I think I like the darker mood on the top picture. I always find the foreground the most difficult in a landscape. What do you think?

Acrylic Painting "Oranges On Blue" 12x12" by Chris Hobel Daily Painting

Just Finished this morning...
Oranges on Blue 12x12"Acrylic on 4cm deep canvas
This is the first of a series Im doing for one of the retailers who stocks my work. I just love painting with orange, particularly the Blue Orange combo. Im showing you how I started

and finished