travellers tales

This past year has been quite a travel adventure to many amazing and varied parts of the world. I cant believe just last week I was snorkeling in the Andaman Sea Thailand, canoeing rivers with wild gibbons and less than six months ago we were in the tundra seeing wild bears and caribou in Alaska.Earlier, just 9 months ago I was cruising the rivers of central Europe.... I have many ticks on the bucket to do list filled, what a hectic year.My philosophy now is do it while you can. After having both my knees causing pain and mobilility problems over the last few years, Ive had several operations which have been a good improvement but I realise time is starting to run out.Hence my painting has been on the back back burner but I have continued to teach between travels and my class has also taken advantage of painting time off to travel as well.
My Classes have started again and its wonderful see all my motivated friends and  painters

Mondays Painting Class at Chris Hobel Art Noosa

Dorothy painting acrylics 

  using watercolour techniques on canvas, spray bottle water to soften edges and lift out techniques to create contast and hightlights, 

not quite finished

If you would like to join our class contact me

Remembering 2010 Classes , Palette Knife Flowers by Geoff, painting Classes Noosa

I had good intentions about posting last year when I took these photos of my classes work. 

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Geoff's Palette Knife Flowers painted last term

Dont forget to book for next terms classes... see details to the right

Noosa painting class, landscape class by Chris Hobel

Here is the finished  acrylic painting 8x10 inches from the previous class using only three primaries, cad red, yellow mid and ultramarine plus white
see previous for photo inspiration.
The  next class will be a UFP ..unfinished paintings before we start on a palette knife or more corrrectly a painting knife class on  August 9. Please contact me for more details as there are a few casual spots left.

Noosa Art classes, landscape painting classes, colour mixing classes,italian and french scenes, oil and acrylic painting

Noosa Painting, italian and french scenes painting
Ive  been having fun painting small  italian and french  scenes over recent times, using the palette knife and using a limited palette

You can see more about these painting on my blog hope you enjoy them. Click on the images for a larger view

Abstract Painting Techniques using Masking Fluid Published article

Published article in Decorative Painting Magazine
I wrote this earlier and forgot to post it, the magazine is still available

I have had many painting projects published, but Im so excited as this is the first one on abstracts using masking fluid. There will be another available in July

There are two simple projects  as shown above . Traditionally Masking fluid is used on watercolour paintings but Ive discovered it can also be used on canvas as long as the paint used to cover it is not too thick.