Shimmer colours of Olive Trees

Olive Tree Trio
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by Mairon Hedger

30x24cm (approx 12"x10")

Oil on gessoed panel
palette knife painting

This is one I painted a while ago.

Olive Trees
This is an amalgam of trees from different photos but I quite like the way it came together. I wanted to show how olive trees are blue, turquoise and green all at the same time, particularly if there is a slight breeze blowing.
It is slightly larger that the other four paintings (which can be seen HERE) and this allowed me to concentrate on the form of the trunks. I love the rough, tactile, gnarled bark of the olive trees, a product of the hard pruning they receive.

Niçoise speciality
Here around Nice the olives produced by the trees are very small, but they are delicious and are a Niçoise speciality. We have three olive trees in the garden but I have never preserved the olives as it takes ages to get them to the edible stage. Raw they are extremely bitter and have to be soaked in brine to be edible.

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Olive Trio, Day 13, 30 days hath September challenge

Olive Tree Trio

30x24cm (approx 12"x10")

Oil on gessoed panel
palette knife painting

Day 13, 30 days hath September challenge

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After completing the last four tree paintings, I realised I hadn't included any olive trees. So for day 13 I selected a prepared panel I had gessoed earlier.
Olive Trees
This is an amalgam of trees from different photos but I quite like the way it came together. I wanted to show how olive trees are blue, turquoise and green all at the same time, particularly if there is a slight breeze blowing.
It is slightly larger that the other four paintings (which can be seen HERE) and this allowed me to concentrate on the form of the trunks. I love the rough, tactile, gnarled bark of the olive trees, a product of the hard pruning they receive.
Niçoise speciality
Here around Nice the olives produced by the trees are very small, but they are delicious and are a Niçoise speciality. We have three olive trees in the garden but I have never preserved the olives as it takes ages to get them to the edible stage. Raw they are extremely bitter and have to be soaked in brine.

Autumn Vineyards in Provence Montage

Autumn Vineyard Provence Montage

by Marion Hedger

A montage of autumn vineyards in Provence. Painted after a visit to the vineyard in October.

See the individual paintings HERE
Available paintings are for sale in my Etsy Store

Tarn Gorges palette knife painting

Tarn Gorges

Oil on Canvas panel

35x27 cm (14"x11")
Painted on an MDF panel,
mounted on an additional white painted panel to give a border.
Final size to fit inside a standard frame.

I painted this, my first all knife painting from a very old photograph I found in the back of the drawer.

Here is a brief description of my progress:

I first drew in the large masses using a watercolour pencil and then blocked in the lights using warm colours and the darks using cool colours. I used a light yellow for the lightest part to make sure that this area would look nice and sunny. I then gradually added colour wet into wet, in an extra 3 to 4 layers. The first to make the colour look 'real', the second to break up the masses into 3 or 4 areas depending on the light, the third to refine the colour in the masses and the fourth layer for the refinement. I used only pure colour, mainly mixing it on the painting as I went along. I also worked to keep the shadows not too dark but just dark enough.

Touch of Provence Sunshine Daily painting Montage

A Touch of Provence Sunshine Montage

by Marion Hedger

Another montage of small paintings, this time of the sunflower fields which are scattered throughout the lavender fields. I am looking forward to my annual trip in June to the lavender fields near Valensole.

See the individual paintings HERE
Available paintings are for sale in my Etsy Store

Poppy Field Provence palette knife painting

Poppy Field Provence

Palette knife painting

15x20cm (approx 6"x8") Oil on board
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It will soon be time to go and see the lavender fields blooming. Along the way there are many hay meadows that are awash with colour. The poppies, in particular always call out to be painted. 

This is painted on a pink ground which is allowed to show through to add sparkle to the painting. Using the palette knife and thick impasto paint, allows the colours to remain true. Here is a close-up of some of the knife work

These little paintings take on a life of their own, and tell me which way to go LOL. 

You may like my other poppy meadow paintings HERE and HERE