Plein Air Painting on the Sunshine Coast, Wappa Dam

Back in the winter, I decided to take up painting outdoors. I managed to do a few but due the physical nature of it I was not able to sustain it. I thought I would share some of my results with you, it is painted with a palette knife on beard in oils .Message me on Facebook for more details Chris Hobel Art Noosa

Chris Hobel Plein Air Paintimg Wappa Dam

Poppy Oil Palette Knife Painting demo better later than not at all Poppies in a sunny field

 This the painting I did for the demo .. a few months ago. I seem to have lost the mojo to blog , maybe its because Ive been planning travels to Turkey. Hope to do some sketching for future paintings while amonst all those gorgeous carpets and ceramics and colourful people. Painting in front of strangers was a little daunting, In class its different, I feel Im amongst friends who are supportive of whatever I do.

Palette Knife Painting in Oils by Chris Hobel

For sale 

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Field of Light Palette Knife daily painting by Noosa Artist Chris Hobel

Field of Light Palette Knife 
Daily Painting 
by Noosa Artist Chris Hobel

8x10" oil painting

  Original is available for sale

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Lavender Fields of Provence Oil Painting by Noosa Artist Christ Hobel

Lavender Fields of Provence  

Palette Knife Oil Painting  on  deep sided stretched canvas 
ready to hang 8x10"

 by Noosa Artist Chris Hobel

Im working on several French themed paintings,
........ cant seem to get those beautiful shutters out of my head.

Following a number of francofile blogs only encourages me

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Animation step by step painting Early Morning Ross River Townsville painting by Chris Hobel Daily Painter

Early Morning  Ross River  Townsville Oil  Preliminary Painting for larger Commission

I made this animation with picasion.com, really fun to do showing some of the steps I used

Queensland Mango Tree at Belli Park Oil Painting by Noosa Artist Chris Hobel

Queensland Mango Tree at Belli Park  Photo In the Early Morning

This is a photo taken in the winter that Ive used for reference in the following  painting. Mango trees have very bright green leaves and are found throughout coastal Queensland  commonly fruiting in Summer, so yummy

The painting is 6x8" oils. 

This is the first stage under painting

Here is the finished painting on  deep sided canvas

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Oil Painting View from Cooroy Mountain by Chris Hobel

Oil Painting View from Cooroy Mountain by Chris Hobel

8x10 inches oil on stretched canvas

I painted this from a photo taken on a recent morning walk up Cooroy Mountain, the home of Cooroy Spring water. Pretty pleased with the result. This painting is currently for sale at Affordable on Elizabeth Kenilworth

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.

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?