Guter Fortschritt
I was able to put between five and six hours on the painting today. I feel better about my progress, but will probably have to paint Saturday, Sunday and Monday to finish it.
Cowboy #2 now has pants!
A closer look at his lovely pants.
Cleaned up the barrel around his pants.
Started in on his shirt, a nice, slightly faded red. Wrinkles take thought abd planning.
Pushing the darks and adding some highlights.
And then I remembered that I was going to make it a bib shirt and had to cover some of those glorious wrinkles, but that's okay. I threw the base color in the grey dun Fjord.
Tweaks on the shirt and A HORSE! That was the whole purpose of the painting to begin with, right? Getting to paint pretty ponies.
A brief break to show off the work area. Counter clockwise from bottom left: pallette I made in college complete with paint, paper towel and brushes, disposable pallette, pallette knives for mixing, heavy-duty paper towel, a corner of my day planner, keys, and water jug, paints and brush container, water cup, and a TON of film containers and baby food jars (ran out of film containers) holding previously mixed paint. I am so happy for these otherwise I would have had to remix the green for the grass 10 times now, no joke.
Shirt is done, gave the grey dun Fjord a tummy tuck as well as pretty much finising him out and starting on the white dun.
Attempted to beat the white dun into submission. Her hind legs weren't wanting to so it for me and I don't know if I am happy with the color for shading her. I don't know, maybe it will grow on me. I wanted to show the slight warmness some of the white duns (buckskin dun) have compared to anl grey, but I am not sure if it is successful.
The whole thing again. Note I tidied up around the white dun and cowboy #2, which made the white dun slightly more tolerable.
Tomorrow is the last day for the private school horsemanship classes until Fall. I don't know what I am going to do with my Fridays! Well... probably fill them with lessons, but maybe not?
Cowboy #2 now has pants!
A closer look at his lovely pants.
Cleaned up the barrel around his pants.
Started in on his shirt, a nice, slightly faded red. Wrinkles take thought abd planning.
Pushing the darks and adding some highlights.
And then I remembered that I was going to make it a bib shirt and had to cover some of those glorious wrinkles, but that's okay. I threw the base color in the grey dun Fjord.
Tweaks on the shirt and A HORSE! That was the whole purpose of the painting to begin with, right? Getting to paint pretty ponies.
A brief break to show off the work area. Counter clockwise from bottom left: pallette I made in college complete with paint, paper towel and brushes, disposable pallette, pallette knives for mixing, heavy-duty paper towel, a corner of my day planner, keys, and water jug, paints and brush container, water cup, and a TON of film containers and baby food jars (ran out of film containers) holding previously mixed paint. I am so happy for these otherwise I would have had to remix the green for the grass 10 times now, no joke.
Shirt is done, gave the grey dun Fjord a tummy tuck as well as pretty much finising him out and starting on the white dun.
Attempted to beat the white dun into submission. Her hind legs weren't wanting to so it for me and I don't know if I am happy with the color for shading her. I don't know, maybe it will grow on me. I wanted to show the slight warmness some of the white duns (buckskin dun) have compared to anl grey, but I am not sure if it is successful.
The whole thing again. Note I tidied up around the white dun and cowboy #2, which made the white dun slightly more tolerable.
Tomorrow is the last day for the private school horsemanship classes until Fall. I don't know what I am going to do with my Fridays! Well... probably fill them with lessons, but maybe not?