Two Paints on canvas. Well now that’s confusing, but that’s what the pattern on these horses are called. I took photos of horses when I was out plein air painting at a horse farm a year ago and came across a great photo of these two recently. They weren’t Paints in the photo but I was in love with the idea of making abstract patterns so they became Paints. It was a lot of fun to invent the dark and light areas so you could still see it’s two horses but it’s not immediately obvious. This is framed in a dark walnut frame to contain all that white background. I used a lot of gesso on the canvas to give it some texture before I started painting, you can’t see this on the screen though.
Below is a photo of the work in progress. I’m just starting a painting session because you can see I don’t even have my paint squeezed out yet on the glass palette. No mess yet. 🙂
Below is a close up of the head. Little bit of violet in the shadows, some orange to give it life. I think it’s always good to throw in some color to give a painting more life. Not enough to make it look like a colorist painting or a German Expressionist, but just enough to make the painting come alive. That’s the goal anyway. Thank you for visiting my blog.
Ah, the siren call of the Paints! Love them, Joan
Thank you for your comment! I’m so glad you like them, especially since you know horses so well!