Seascape Oil Painting Workshop with John Wilson by Chris Hobel

Seascape  Oil Painting painted at the Kenilworth John Wilson Workshop

This is the final painting  we did, fun to do the reflections. Three paintings in 3 and a half days was a good effort.

Workshop Oil Painting by Chris Hobel

Australan Gums in the snow. Oil on Canvas

This is another painting I completed at the John Wilson workshop a few weeks ago.

John Wilson Workshop

This is John and some of his spectacular work of the Australian Landscape, he has the ability to place limited strokes in just the right place and tone, he truly captures the light of the landscape, a real inspiration

Ive must apologize for not adding to my blog recently, computer problems and catching up with painting, writing a few articles and swimming at gorgeous Noosa Main Beach. I promised to add more pictures from the workshop

This is the first piece we did, quite a small painting of Southern NSW. You can see Johns  version in the left corner of the above photo

Chris attends Kenilworth Painting Workshop

John Wilson painting class

 Im having a day off from my 4 day workshop with John Wilson, a very relaxed teacher.Take a look at this tidy palette
John likes to use Windsor and Newton Artists Oils, the colours he loves include Rose Madder Genuine and Cerulean Blue, you cannot replace them with anything else as there is nothing like it.Just those two small tubes sets you back around 110$AU, not a typing error. We use only pure gum turpentine as the thinning medium
The painting is from a photo around Hartley NSW in the Blue Mountains region.The image is of Johns easl and the first stage set up of the painting.  More in my next blog

Traditional Painting in Oils First Prize Winner, Noosa Beach by artist Chris Hobel

Noosa Main Beach Oil on canvas
I was thrilled to receive a phone call on Friday informing me that I had won First prize in the Traditional section of the Noosa Show.
As an artist it is a great feeling to receive recognition for your efforts. I love to paint in many styles but traditional  seems what Im best at .
The  John Wilson  Master workshop Im attending in a few weeks will give me more skills in oils so the win give me a real boost as I have been feeling a bit of the artist doldrums lately and have had difficulty focusing on the direction I want to take with my painting
This is the beach I swam at today and is very beautiful. I painted it from a photo I took  early in the morning