Italian Village Palette Knife Painting Step 1 by Chris Hobel

I roughed in the design with an acrylic wash  before starting the palette knife in oil. The inspiration is from a photo I took somewhere in Tuscany Italy

Step 2  will be in the next blog

French Cafe Scene Avignon Palette Knife Painting by Noosa Artist Chris Hobel

12x12" oil on wrapped canvas

Ive added more highlights and used some Red Gold plus White for this.A Lover of colour, Ive pushed the brights. My new camera  is 14 mega pixels but I preferred the colour from my old camera, this one seems to burn out the lights and I have to  do extra processing to try to portray the real thing.

Not a single brush stroke except for the signature

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French Cafe Scene Avignon Palette Knife Oil painting Step 3 by Noosa Artist Chris Hobel

Notice Ive added more tree detail, 

and highlights along with the foregound, 

more colour

.Its getting quite thick now so 

I will leave it for a while and work on another painting.

See the previous two posts for earlier steps

French Cafe Scene Avignon Palette Knife Oil Painting Step 2 by Noosa Artist Chris Hobel

Window details ,

I find these a challenge with the palette knife but with more practice, Im sure Ill find a short cut. See the previous post for step 1.

The lights will be coming soon!

French Cafe Scene Avignon Palette Knife Oil Painting Step 1 Noosa artist Chris Hobel

French Cafe Scene by Chris Hobel

Palette Knife Oil Painting

Step 1

I painted a terracotta underpainting in acrylic, 12x12inch box  canvas.

A bit of a challenge with so may bits of colour and using just the palette knife. I love not washing brushes and with my painful knee, Im doing as little work as possible.( agood excuse I guess) Each  step is a separate post.
Colours I tend to use are French Ultramarine, Cad Red, Crimson, in this one Thalo Blue for shutters, Yellow Oxide, Cad Yellow,White, Veridian, Burnt Umber

next step  will be on the next blog

until then 

au revoir