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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Tropical Paradise Palette Knife Painting By Daily Painter Noosa Artist Chris Hobel

New Years Resolution to blog more frequently starts right now. Im still into colour  texture and palette knife painting. I finished this one before Christmas , love the colours, a reflection if my  subtropical garden. Its for sale  as well as priints on Fine Art America. I painted it from the computer monitor, colours are much better

I blocked in the background colours with a brush to eliminate white spots showing through, prior to using the palette knife. The composition had to be modified as it looked too cluttered once the thick paint was added.
The fronds seem to be dancing or chatting in the breeze

Tropical Paradise Palette Knife Painting  Acrylic on Hardboard

 For Sale $100

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Sunrise Beach Queensland Australia Photo Mosaic by Noosa Artist Chris Hobel

This cool Mosaic is made with Big Huge Labs Mosaic maker. I followed the instructions on a good blog    called little red school house which has great photos I follow. You need to have a flikr account  and be patient. As I said on my previous post, I have plenty of time to do this with my feet up. All these photos were taken by myself in my local area.  The centre one is  Sunrise  at Sunrise taken a few months back.Very inspiring, now you know Why I love where I live. Ive just spotted one of my paintings up there, here is a link to an earlier post showing it, see if you can guess which one/ones?
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French Village Oil Painting Step 4 by Chris Hobel

 

Daily Painting  by Chris Hobel

Are we there yet, not quite, still  few more steps until Im happy to call it quits

Green greys are added to the distant trees and more details added to windows, there is so much to see... do we see too much.?

Have fun using Masking Fluid on Paintings

I used masking fluid to preserve the light outlines on this painting. It was an experiment .I ended up using it to teach a workshop with the method  along with transparent washes, ink outlines  and water based glue
I called it Bollywood

Contemporary Painting techniques published article

Fine Art and decorative painting magazine Vol 17 #7 
has published my latest article showing you how you can use masking fluid to create contemporary paintings. This is a useful magazine for all painters.
My classes start again tomorrow. Visit  my classes to enrol, learn about using masking fliud on canvas and many more techniques
When visiting the Sunshine Coast or the Noosa area, you are welcome to attend casual classes,
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