Autumn Light - palette knife oil painting

Autumn Light 

40x50 cm (16" x 20") on boxed canvas

Oil palette knife painting by Marion Hedger

I am always captivated by the way light filters through woodland. The yellows and golds on these birches are so rich and vibrant, what a lovely time of year.

I blocked in the major masses in pure colour and gradually laid in the autumn colours using a palette knife. My palette was mainly cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, diox. violet, carmine and ultramarine blue. Because the paint is quite thick, I used Liquin as a drying medium. It has just come off my easel, hence the slight glare on the bottom.

Bluebell Wood in Dappled Light Oil Painting

Bluebell Wood in dappled light, Rufford Park

Oil painting by Marion Hedger

30x40x3.5cm boxed canvas with sides painted black

Can be framed or hung as is.

Every summer in May the old woods of England are awash with blue. These tiny bluebells give such a beautiful colour to the woodland floor - sometimes blue, sometimes purple, sometimes pink, depending upon how the light shines on them.
It is truly a wonderful sight. The dappled light of the woods in early summer really lifts the heart.