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Sunday, June 15, 2014

The Knight Is Done - He's Off to the Lists


"A Hard Day's Knight" ???
9.5 x 8 in.
24 x 20.5 cm.

I am reasonably satisfied with this. I accomplished what I intended. Painting large pieces of metal was part of the challenge.  Not getting tempted to paint every detail was another - that was hard with the horse. And painting wet-in-wet washes over a largely completed part of the image was the most important technique I tried. The focus of this painting was to be the armor, especially the face-plate on the horse, and I believe I was able to keep the focus there. So ... experiment done. Now onto some calves, flowers .... ????

Thank you for dropping by! Your comments are always welcome.

10 comments:

  1. "A hard Day's Knight" is finished beautifully, Kathryn!! I love the dark background! and Scruffy has such a gentle face...definitely a future painting! As far as Maggie's possessiveness ... since we adopted these dogs, we don't know their "history"... My dog was VERY possessive of me when I first got her and she finally realized that I wasn't going to send her back to the shelter and now she's docile and SO sweet! ( At first, she nipped my two friends when they got too close to me!!!)

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  2. I think this is really wonderful! The perspective in particular - the way the rider is appearing from the gloom... Awesome!! :0)

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  3. Oh my gosh!! How did you do that? We were thinking it would be soo hard!! But you mastered it!
    We love it!
    love
    tweedles

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  4. A knight very spectacular! Arianna

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  5. Fabulous, Kathryn! The focus on the face plate of the horse is really great!

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  6. Fabulous how you kept the knight in the background making the horse the true star . All those little nails on the armor ....such a great work Kathryn ! And the title is humorous and spot on ! xx

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  7. Comme sorti des ténèbres du passé. J'adore ! L'armure du cheval est un must!

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  8. What a great subject! I really like how you have painted him charging toward the viewer and horse and rider dissolving into the background! So dynamic!

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  9. So very well done! Great perspective and focal point.

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