Working on a new painting. One of my favorite parts of horses is their majestic necks. So.... it was time to do one! Following in my animal series, here we go again! I had this big, square canvas which just seemed to be begging for a horse.
Here we are in our early stages. I forgot to take a photo of just the background, but had loosely laid out the horse shape and simply painted around it in a scratchy, drippy style. It doesn't exactly fit the horse, but I wanted to do it this way to give it some tension and movement. More about the background later.
Time for the horse. I laid him down in Paynes Grey and a nice cobalt blue I recently picked up.
This is the time consuming part, making sure I've got the proportions right. One of my pet peeves is paintings with incorrect proportions.
Proportions - check!
Then I pulled the loose background in to the horse to make up for any inconsistencies in my lay-down. You can see it best in the way I treated the mane falling down in front of his face (surely he is a HE!). I simply straightened out the proportions and left the white for the mane.
Like!
More later!
Here we are in our early stages. I forgot to take a photo of just the background, but had loosely laid out the horse shape and simply painted around it in a scratchy, drippy style. It doesn't exactly fit the horse, but I wanted to do it this way to give it some tension and movement. More about the background later.
Time for the horse. I laid him down in Paynes Grey and a nice cobalt blue I recently picked up.
This is the time consuming part, making sure I've got the proportions right. One of my pet peeves is paintings with incorrect proportions.
Proportions - check!
Then I pulled the loose background in to the horse to make up for any inconsistencies in my lay-down. You can see it best in the way I treated the mane falling down in front of his face (surely he is a HE!). I simply straightened out the proportions and left the white for the mane.
Like!
More later!
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