Windswept Tree and Wildflowers, Landscape Painting, Daily Painting, Small Oil Painting, 6x8" Oil on Panel

Somedays, everything just feels right!

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It doesn't happen often, but this was one of those days.

Hope you have "one of those days" too.

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Carol Schiff
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The Golden Hour, Daily Painting, Small Oil Painting, 6x8" Oil on Panel

The Golden Hour.....the most beautiful time of the day!

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A small live oak, basking in the glow of evening.

Carol Schiff
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Landscape Painting, Small Oil Painting, Daily Painting, Clinging to the World, 8x8x1.5" Original Oil, SOLD

This was a painting, I enjoyed creating!  I don't know why, but some days every brushstroke is a struggle, and a few times, everything just falls into place.

For me, this was a" fall into place day".

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Good days and bad days.  In the studio and out.  That is the way of life.  So, I try to enjoy the          "good" and not let the" bad" become overwhelming.

Here's hoping today is a "Good" day for you!

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Carol Schiff

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Fall Landscape Painting, Daily Painting, Small Oil Painting, Autumn Trees, 6x8" Oil on Canvas

I posted this last autumn. How did autumn get here so fast?  Time seems to go faster and faster each year.

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We have just returned from time in the mountains, rushing home to monitor hurricane season in Florida.  When we return to the mountains, this will be a typical scene.

It is so easy to overdue autumn colors.  Your eye tells you the intense colors are what you are seeing, but when you put it on canvas, it is not believable.  Time to tone it down a touch.  Nature is maybe not quite that bright.

Carol Schiff

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Fall Landscape Painting, Daily Painting, Small Oil Painting, Autumn Trees, 6x8" Oil on Canvas

I posted this last autumn. How did autumn get here so fast?  Time seems to go faster and faster each year.

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We have just returned from time in the mountains, rushing home to monitor hurricane season in Florida.  When we return to the mountains, this will be a typical scene.

It is so easy to overdue autumn colors.  Your eye tells you the intense colors are what you are seeing, but when you put it on canvas, it is not believable.  Time to tone it down a touch.  Nature is maybe not quite that bright.

Carol Schiff

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Provence Pines oil painting by Marion Hedger

Provence Pines

by Marion Hedger

Oil on box canvas

30x30cm

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Sky Reach by Marion Hedger

Sky Reach

30x60cm

Oil on gallery wrap canvas

This painting is sold but see available paintings on my website. HINT - I also do commissions 😊

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Over the Wall by Marion Hedger, Recently Sold

The Picnic Spot

by Marion Hedger

Oil on canvas

SOLD - On it's way to Florida

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Fall Landscape Painting, Daily Painting, Small Oil Painting, Autumn Trees, 6x8" Oil on Canvas

How did this happen!  How could it possibly be almost autumn?  Time seems to go faster and faster each year.

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We have just returned from time in the mountains, rushing home to monitor hurricane season in Florida.  When we return to the mountains, this will be a typical scene.

It is so easy to overdue autumn colors.  Your eye tells you the intense colors are what you are seeing, but when you put it on canvas, it is not believable.  Time to tone it down a touch.  Nature is maybe not quite that bright.

Carol Schiff

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Renoir's Olives by Marion Hedger

Renoir's Olives

by Marion Hedger

3x40cm on gallery wrapped canvas

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These ancient olives grow in Domaine des Collettes Renoir's garden that remained in the family until 1960 and is now owned by the municipality as part of the heritage sites.

Here are a couple of close ups:

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Bluebell Woods by Marion Hedger

Bluebell Wood

24cm x 30cm 

Oil on board

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Sky Reach and Staying Loose by Marion Hedger

Sky Reach

by Marion Hedger

30x60cm

Oil on box canvas

SOLD

Brad Teare's latest post hit a note with me. My paintings can often be very 'tight' and it is  a constant struggle to stay looser. Often, I find myself overthinking the scene and so the painting gets tighter and tighter. Often if I scrape off the paint the resulting image provides a good loose underpainting that helps the process along. I do have to fight with my logical mind telling me that I am wasting all that paint, which with a palette knife is quite thick, but often the result is worth it... read more on my blog

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The Tree House by Marion Hedger

The Tree House

by Marion Hedger

18x24cm 

Oil on 3mm MDF canvas panel

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This is another of the challenge paintings from September just finished. In fact it only needed a couple of small strokes to finish it off. These 'cabanons' are dotted all over the provence countryside. Many of them are in ruins and nature quickly takes over.

I am trying to stage my photos more professionally so I set this up and used my studio lamp which gives a blue light. It worked quite well, I think. I shall try this with some of my other paintings and see if I can reproduce it - but without the paint splattered easel LOL. Adds authenticity though doesn't it?

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Small Tree Painting, "My Morning Companion" 6x8" SOLD

When I spend time in the Smoky Mountains, I start many of my days on the porch, with a cup of coffee.  It's a special time of day as the sun streams in over the mountains and starts to burn off the protective layer of "smoke" from the night before.

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It's just me, my coffee, and this old dogwood tree that sits in our yard.  A very nice way to start the day.

Soon the sun will rise over the mountain tops and light will stream in behind the tree.  My little special moment of the morning is gone and it is time to start my day.

Do you have a special moment each morning?

Carol Schiff

Tree painting, Daily Painting, Small Oil Painting, 6x8" Oil Landscape

We are rather tree challenged here in Florida.  We have beautiful palm trees, but when it comes to the huge leafy trees of my childhood, in the north, not so much.

Enter the live oak.  It's big, not really that leafy, but long, long beautiful branches, often draped with Spanish moss.

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 This one is just a baby, but I couldn't resist painting it as it seemed to glow in the sunshine.

detail

 I painted with a combination of palette knife and brush which gave it a yummy texture.

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I want to do more tree studies.  They are all so unique and so beautiful.

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Shadowland, Provence Trees Painting by Marion Hedger

Shadowland WIP

by Marion Hedger

Provence Trees palette knife painting

24x30cm oil on MDF canvas panel

From the same area as yesterday's painting. 

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Light Catcher Day 23 of the challenge, by Marion Hedger

Light Catcher WIP 

by Marion Hedger

Provence Landscape

18x24cm oil painting on MDF canvas panel

Day 23 of the 30 day challenge

The light filtering through the trees and catching the leaves appealed to me.
Some work still needed on the path.

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Tree painting, Daily Painting, Small Oil Painting, 6x8" Oil Landscape

We are rather tree challenged here in Florida.  We have beautiful palm trees, but when it comes to the huge leafy trees of my childhood, in the north, not so much.

Enter the live oak.  It's big, not really that leafy, but long, long beautiful branches, often draped with Spanish moss.

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110.

 This one is just a baby, but I couldn't resist painting it as it seemed to glow in the sunshine.

detail

 I painted with a combination of palette knife and brush which gave it a yummy texture.

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I want to do more tree studies.  They are all so unique and so beautiful.

Thanks for viewing my art today.



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Daily Painting, Landscape Painting, "In the Bamboo" 8x6" Oil Painting

As a child living in rural Ohio, my grandmother would visit from Florida, bringing along an exotic collection of seashells and postcards. There was always one or two postcards from McKee Gardens in Vero Beach. She  awakened a deep desire in me.....to live in this strange and beautiful tropical land.

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Recently I made my first trip to McGee Gardens, a magical place filled with  tropical flora and  giant water lily pads.

I was fascinated with the bamboo stands, so abstract in their shapes.

It's always nice when a childhood dream comes true............Thank you Grandma.

Strolling through the Bluebells, by Marion Hedger

Strolling through the Bluebells by Marion Hedger

Bluebell Woods. Rufford Park

24x30cm oil on canvas panel

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