Waiting for the Bees - SOLD.

Waiting for the bees by Marion Hedger

18x24cm oil on canvas panel.

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Impressionist Garden Art, Climbing Red Roses - Summer Scent

Summer Scent by Marion Hedger

Oil palette knife painting 

24x30cm, MDF canvas panel

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The blue pergola this rose and the pink rose was built by my husband. It took quite some time to persuade him but I am so pleased they are built. They provide the perfect support and backdrop to the roses.

The picnic spot - Day 12, 30 paintings in 30 days

The Picnic Spot

Oil palette knife painting

25x30cm (10"x12") box canvas 28mm deep

The edges are painted black. This painting would look good in a floating frame

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On our day trips out around Provence we normally take a picnic for lunch. Sometimes we can drive for ages to find that 'ideal' spot, sunny but shady, quiet, close to the road but not busy etc. I'm sure you've all done the same. Sometimes, like the spot in the painting we hit it without too much trouble. The sunlight and shadows appealed to me, and this is the painting with a little bit of editing to remove a few trees.

Guardian of the view - tree painting in oil using a palette knife

Guardian of the view

Palette knife painting

18x24cm (approx 7"x10")

Oil on MDF canvas panel

Available on Daily Paintworks

This painting is in response to this week's challenge on Daily Paintworks to paint 'Sky Holes'.
The model for this painting is the same one that appears in 'Sunset over the vineyard'. I love the way it twists and turns and stands guard. It was a sunny day but the clouds were starting to build up.

About this painting
This was painted on my usual pink ground after treating the canvas panel with liquitex thick gesso to give additional texture. I painted the tree very loose suggesting the different shades of the leaves in blocks. Some of the sky holes were painted back in to add breathing spaces, or to put it another way, leaving space for the birds to fly through.
Some close-ups of the knife work.

Provençal Sunshine palette knife painting

Provençal Sunshine palette knife painting

oil on box canvas (gallery wrapped)

25x30cm (10x12inch) x 28mm deep

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One of the first sunflower paintings from my latest batch of photos taken in my recent trip to see the lavender. These fields took me by surprise. What is it about sunflowers that lifts the spirits and make the day seem happier?

Some close-ups

and how it would look framed in a floating frame.

White Hibiscus oil painting and reworked Pink Hibiscus painting

White Hibiscus Palette knife painting

Oil on MDF panel

15x15cm (6x6inch)

Bid now in the Daily Paintworks auction

Another hibiscus painting for the wetcanvas.com monthly challenge. This painting has a good impasto texture. The edges of the board have been painted black, making it ideal for display on a plate stand or framed in a floating frame.

Reworked Pink Hibiscus

Pink Hibiscus palette knife painting

Oil on MDF panel

15x15cm (6x6cm)

Available for purchase 62€ int. shipping included

I made a few changes to this - I altered the stamen on the top flower, slightly changed the twigs and added a touch of green to indicate leaves. See the original post here

Peach Roses, oil Palette knife painting

Peach roses oil painting

Palette knife painting

Oil on box canvas

15x20cm (6x8inch)

Day 26 of the challenge

Beautiful roses for day 26 of the challenge (only 4 more days to go)

I am not sure about this painting, it doesn't quite work for me, although the roses have some lovely impasto passages on this. I wonder if the background is just to fussy. I may go back into it and calm it down giving it a more even colour - or maybe there is just too much in this for a small painting?

Let me know what you think about this one.

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Some close-ups of the impasto

Red Tulips flower arrangement palette knife painting

Red Tulips flower arrangement

Palette knife painting

Oil on box canvas

15x20x1.5cm (6x8x0.6inch)

The sides are painted black,

 so can be hung with or without a frame

Day 23 in the 30 day challenge
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More red and more tulips for day 23 in the challenge. I love this red colour, it is Scarlet Lake by Winsor and Newton. I like to use it straight from the tube for a luscious red colour. When mixed with white it gives a lovely soft peachy/pink colour.

See yesterday's tulip painting here

About this painting
I find that reds can quickly lose their vibrancy when the paint dries. To help the red stay bright, I always underpaint with yellow.

Close-up of the knife work

Tulip Field Palette Miniature treasure Palette knife painting

Tulip Field Palette Miniature treasure

Palette knife painting

Oil on MDF panel

10x15cm (4"x6")

SOLD

Today I was in the mood for red and tulips.

Summer Light still life Palette knife Impressionist painting, Day 17

Summer Light still life after Henri le Sidaner

Palette knife painting

Oil on canvas panel

24x30 cm (10" x 12")

Day 17 in the 30 day challenge

Available in my Etsy Store

Another painting based on a Henri le Sidaner painting. This one had a lot of details with all those items on the table which were hard to capture with a palette knife. I should have reduced the number of items and just concentrated on the light. I changed the grapes from the original, to the bowl in the front. Initially I was just going to paint the cloth without anything there, but it did need something green to balance the greens in the grass.

Close-ups of the knife work

L'ail rose - pink garlic still life palette knife painting, Day 15, 30 day challenge

L'ail rose - pink garlic still life

Palette knife painting
This is painting No.15 in the 30 day challenge

Oil on box canvas

15x20x1.5cm (6"x8") 

For auction on Daily Paintworks

This was painted in response to the Daily Paintworks challenge a couple of weeks ago which was a "Root and Bulb challenge". OK, its a week or two late for the challenge but I have been meaning to paint this since then!

This type of garlic is a speciality of the region, this excert is from "Chocolate and Zuchinni" blog -

"Pink garlic?", you ask, your right eyebrow arched in curiosity. Well yes, it is a unique variety of garlic, grown exclusively in and around the medieval town of Lautrec, in the South of France. It is protected by an IGP (Protected Geographical Indication, a European certification of origin), benefits from a Label Rouge quality certification and, most importantly, it has been awarded the honorific title of Prince des Condiments.

Here are a couple of close-ups

Provence poppies No. 2 impressionist painting - Day 10, 30 paintings challenge

Provence poppies No. 2 impressionist painting

Palette knife painting in oils

15x15cm (6"x6")
Day 10, 30 day challenge

Available for purchase, 52€ (icl. shipping)

 A sister painting to Provence Poppies No. 1 I'm addicted to this scene and have painted it many times. The impasto surface adds character to this painting.

Some close-ups

Impasto Roses, two still life oil paintings

Old Fashioned

Roses still life palette knife painting

24x30cm (approx 10x12")

Oil on canvas panel
Available for purchase, 120€ 
international shipping included

Sweet Memories - Roses still life

palette knife paintings

24x30cm (approx 10x12inches)

Oil on canvas panel 
Available for purchase

120€ international shipping included. 

 

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Lavender corner, Provence landscape knife painting

Lavender Corner, Provence Landscape

palette knife painting

20x15cm (8"x6") 

Oil on boxed canvas

another lively Provencal landscape showing a slightly unkempt lavender field. This is painted on a very textured ground which gives lively loose feel to it.

Provence Poppy Meadow Series Montage

A montage of some of the Poppy Meadows of Provence

I thought it would be nice to see some of this series together. It makes an interesting montage and shows how the same subject can be treated slightly differently to give a different look and feel. These are all small paintings some are 15x20cm and 18x24cm and all are painted with a palette knife. They can be both frustrating and fun to paint at the same time. The freedom with using the palette knife stops the fussiness that sometimes creeps into my landscape paintings, but getting the sense of distance and perspective is a challenge.

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Autumn Explosion, palette knife painting

Autumn Explosion by Marion Hedger

Oil on canvas panel

Heavily textured palette knife painting

18x24 cm (approx 7"x10")

When painting forest scenes, I usually like to show some sort of path to encourage the viewer to 'walk' through the painting, as can be seen HERE in this larger painting. With this painting, I wanted to show the 'denseness' of the foliage and the way that the colour can confuse the senses.

Here is a close up of the impasto knife work

This is a sister painting to Autumn Birches which was painted with the same palette and also shows a path.

 

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Provence Poppy Extravaganza palette knife oil painting

Provence Poppy Extravaganza

Oil palette knife painting

15 x 20cm (6" x 8") on box canvas

55€ Click HERE to purchase

This is the last in the current series of poppy paintings. Although, as I get so much pleasure from painting them and I still have lots of photo references, who knows .... LOL

Painted with a palette knife, on a highly textured ground with a pink underpainting which is allowed to show through the finished painting.
Another view of the poppy meadows can be seen HERE 

Path through the Poppy Meadow, oil painting SOLD

Path through the poppy meadow by Marion Hedger

Oil palette knife painting

15 x 20cm (6" x 8") on box canvas

THIS PAINTING IS NOW SOLD

I really love painting these small Provencal scenes. They always take me back to my trips to the interior Var and Haut Provence region.
Another view of the poppy meadows can be seen HERE

Lavender Farm Provence oil painting

Lavender Farm in Provence by Marion Hedger

Oil on canvas panel

15 x 20 cm (6" x 8") painted with a palette knife

This painting is now SOLD

After painting several autumn scenes with lots of yellows and oranges, I had the urge to use blues and purples again. I returned to my photos and created a few more Provencal lavender paintings. I will post another Provence lavender scene tomorrow. I gessoed the canvas quite thickly to give a heavy textured ground, and then painted it with a pink underpainting which I let show through in the finished painting, adding an overall liveliness.
Here is a close up of some of the impasto paintwork.

Autumn Vineyard Vista palette knife painting

Autumn Vineyard Vista

18 x 24 cm on artist quality canvas panel

Oil, palette knife painting on a textured surface.

SOLD

The third of my autumn vineyard paintings. I shall have to pay a return visit to these Provence vineyards in the summer, when the grapes are growing.

Here is a close-up detail of the knife work


See the other two paintings in this Autumn Vineyard group HERE