Merry Christmas from Chris Hobel Daily Painting

Merry Christmas to all 

Peace and Love 
I found this cute image at a favourite quilting blog
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Large Tuscan Village Oil Painting by Daily painter Chris Hobel Noosa Heads Australia

This is the final version, 24x36" a large traditional landscape of a pretty Tuscan village. As you can see from the animation, it has add a few additions and removals. I often prefer the early stages of my painting to the finsihed versions. I need to follow my own advice KISS, keep it simple stupid.  I have painted this scene a few times . I was pretty happy with it in the end
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Decided to try a different sky colour from the usual but ended up with a few solutions. The dark green foreground didnt seem right so I bravely added red to give it some more strong colour as in the orange sky. I quite liked it as a painting but it didnt quite look like the bright green sugar cane fields, more like poppy field...not a convincing look in the sub tropics..... I would love to see what you think... which one do you like the best

Tuscan Village Oil Painting by Chris Hobel Daily Painting

This baby is finished! 

Tuscan Village Oil Painting 24x36"canvas

on deep sided  frame painted around the sides

and is for sale 

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The final step, painting the sides Tuscan Painting by Chris Hobel

I finally decided to end it all after much fusing around with this painting. ie painting the sides the final step. Such a large traditional landscape 24x36" 61x91cms  for me is new.  I should have painted it quickly with house painting brushes to stop that dreaded thing distraction and detail. I did enjoy it and learnt a lot from it I hope. When it dries I  can photograph it and will show it to you