"Just Because" Original Oil Palette Knife Painting by Hallie Kohn Art

I love this softer color palette with the bright pops of orange. For this painting I used a very limited palette of five colors and white: cadmium yellow medium and light, sap green, alizarin crimson, and cerulean. It makes for such nice color harmony.

Continue to enjoy painting the flower bouquets using my palette knives. They require a LOT of paint on these larger canvases (although this particular one isn't too large) to get that thickness and those great knife marks. Enjoy!

12x16 oil on 7/8" gallery wrapped canvas

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Red Tulips flower arrangement. oil on box canvas by Marion Hedger, 6x8

Red Tulips flower arrangement

Palette knife painting by Marion Hedger

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

Rose Flower Arrangement No.4 Mini Treasure painting by Marion Hedger

Mini treasure flower arrangement 4

Palette knife painting

Impasto oil

10x10cm (4x4inch) on box canvas
Can be hung without a frame
This is painting No.21 in the 30 day challenge

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This is the fourth and final miniature treasure of this series. Here is the collage of all four.

 This was a fun little series to paint, but it is now time to move onto something else.

A close-up of No. 4

Rose still life arrangement No. 3 Mini treasure painting by Marion Hedger

Mini treasure flower arrangement 3 

Palette knife painting by Marion Hedger

Impasto oil

10x10cm (4x4inch) on box canvas
Can be hung without a frame
This is painting No.20 in the 30 day challenge

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This is the third painting in the series (I have one more which I will post tomorrow)

INSPIRATION FOR THIS PAINTING
Like yesterday's, and the day before, this painting was also inspired by the flower in painting No. 17 Summer Light
Rose still life flower arrangment No.2
Rose still life flower  arrangement
Summer Light still life after Henri le Sidaner


Collage of the series so far

CLOSE-UP OF No. 3

Rose still life arrangement No. 2 Mini treasure Palette knife oil painting by Marion Hedger

Rose still life arrangement No. 2 by Marion Hedger

Mini treasure Palette knife painting

Impasto oil

10x10cm (4x4inch) on box canvas
Can be hung without a frame
This is painting No.19 in the 30 day challenge

Available for purchase

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This painting is painted with thick impasto paint on a yellow ground. It's funny how an idea can spark off several paintings, especially when I have been procrastinating for so long about using these small canvasses. That's one of the good things about participating in a challenge like this, it makes you think outside of the box.

INSPIRATION FOR THIS PAINTING
Like yesterday's painting, this on was also inspired by the flower in painting No. 17.
Rose still life flower arrangement
Summer Light still life after Henri le Sidaner

CLOSE-UP OF THE KNIFE WORK

Rose still life flower arrangement Mini treasure Palette knife painting by Marion Hedger

Rose still life flower arrangement by Marion Hedger

Mini treasure Palette knife painting

Impasto oil

10x10cm (4x4inch) on box canvas
This is painting No.18 in the 30 day challenge

This painting is now SOLD

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This painting was inspired by the crop of the flowers in yesterday's painting.

I have had these 4"x4" canvases sitting around for a long time and never knew what to paint. When I saw the crop yesterday, it spoke to me and voila!

Stay tuned for another mini treasure tomorrow.

Here is a close-up