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

Australian Birds, more visitors Noosa Heads Black Cockatoo

On my coffee and painting break I heard the raucous sound of this noisy large beautiful bird generally difficult to spot as its so well camouflaged.
Its a Black Cockatoo with yellow touches on head and tail. I dont know the exaxct name, but is not a glossy.
That huge beak cracks open the hardest of banksia fruits and is a pleasure to watch

Noosa Spring garden visitors by Noosa Artist Chris Hobel

Down the Garden Path

Inspiration is easy to come by at this time of year with many  Australian native plants in full bloom, I never tire of the  my garden view. Currently working on a few palette knife paintings, french and italian inspired not quite there yet . They need to dry a bit to continue

Birds are in abundance in my garden,

A Kookaburra, eyes peeled for a feed

always welcome