Arabian Bay no10

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I painted this with a small and smaller brush. I started with a dark sienna and ultramarine mix and mineral spirits then pulled up my lights. The small brush I used was frayed. I did use a smaller brush for the features. The medium I used for this was Liquin fine detail. This gave me a wet into wet. I am always experimenting with processes.

6 x 6 Oil on gessoed clayboard

White Horse in Winter

The horse was added because I thought it needed something there. I contemplated putting a cow there. Now that I look at it, there needs to be a fence somewhere. Maybe one of those snow fences.

Grazing Horses

I have tried this composition several times. I want to make paint it in a larger format but so far I have not been able to pull it together. The two horses each came from different reference material and the background was edited to work with the composition. In this version I reversed the white horse.

8x6 Oil on Raymar panel.

Dappled Paso Fino

The photo below is the reference shot for this painting. I had to edit around the white fence. The back legs were not ideal, so they were changed. Ideally I would have liked to work straight from the photo. The angle of the horse's head is what inspired me to paint this. I had to edit the hind quarter of the painting to look more like a Paso Fino using the other reference shots to figure out the anatomy. Defining the difference between one breed of horse and another is a challenge almost as challenging as capturing the difference in human faces. Another challenge is painting dappled horses. I used to paint little pins for Christmas presents. One of the pins was of a dappled circus horse which I kept for myself. I left the pin on my blouse when it went through the wash it was ruined. 

6x6 Oil on Raymar panel.

Arabian no.6

I entered the latest daily paintworks challenge:

 Paint this image using only burnt sienna, ultramarine blue and titanium white. That's it. No other colors. With that combo you can have it look pretty darn close to a full color painting by achieving a wide array of values and temperatures.

With the paint I had left over I painted this horse.

6x6 oil on canvas affixed to masonite board. $50 Buy this painting

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