Tuscan Village Oil Painting by Chris Hobel

This is step 1, Tuscan Village  Oil Painting

I 've just found this photo of Step 1, it was  painted before the one in the earlier post.
I am still a novice at impressionist style and often I find I want to neaten things  or get distracted by details the more time I spend on a painting.
As I write this I have not yet finished the painting but  I have done a little more and added a few changes to the path way.

I think I should get back to the palette knife as it stops the tendency to be so precious with detail
I started on a gessoed board and drew  the  main outlines to divide the tones  with chalk  blue pencil .
Choose a colour that will blend with colours you will use in your painting .I find charcoal makes the colours muddy.

Limiting your palette also keeps you on the straight and narrow,  colours are naturally harmonious and you cant forget the colours you used that way!

Chroma Archival Colours used are Cad Yellow Mid, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Cad Red, Crimson, Veridian, Fast Drying White.with gum turps in the early stage of the painting

Tuscan Vinyard oil Painting by Chris Hobel

 Taking a nostalgic trip Italy,   This was taken after a few stages and includes my reference  photo I took a few years ago.
To see an earlier step see the following post and I will add them all until Ive completed it

Daily Painting by Chris Hobel, Australia

Original Oil Painting Iconic Italian Village with Roses and Terracotta Pot by Award winning Australian Artist Chris Hobel

After a funtrip away to coastal Coffs Harbour NSW Australia meeting up with a childhood friend,

Ive returned to beautiful winter weather inspired to  paint some smallish 

Tuscan and French village countryside scenes in oil on hardwood boards I found at a local op shop.

The painting measures 10x14 inches and I painted it mostly in an impressionist style but the pot and flower on the wall are more realistic.

I used flat bristle brushes and Archival Oils by Chroma I particularly love the fast drying white and smooth gel medium

This painting is a for sale 

" Tuscan Memory"by Chris Hobel

80$ US includes postage

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Abstract Mixed Media experiment slide show

Ive used Picasa to make this slide show, it has turned out a bit small, but it does work.. yippy. I would make it a bit bigger next time .. thats if I can remember how!

slide show mixed media on paper

See the  Step by step process for painting the  image below
Click on the picture at right to take you to the picasa slide show.

                           Final image is directly to the right of the screen
Then go to the slide show icon on the left top side of the page to take you to the full page view on the picassa slide show page

This is when I decided to stop playing!