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| I started this portrait again this morning. |
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| I apologize for the color quality. The oranges - quin. sienna - are not coming through well at all. |
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| This technique, essentially dry-brushing, is very time-consuming, but there is nothing like it to get clean colors, and depth in a very delicate subject. I am far from finished, probably several days or weeks of work, but I really like how it is coming along. The dry-brushing allows you to better maintain the clarity of the sensitive colors. I am glazing with pure colors - started with a thin wash of yellow ocher over everything, and am now using permanent rose, alizarin crimson, quin. sienna, quin. burnt orange and cobalt blue. I read about this technique several years ago. If you would like to see some work by a master of dry-brushing, I highly recommend you google Ottorino de Lucchi - brilliant! |
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| And besides painting, His Imperial Highness is doing well in his training. I must say, the same goes for training horses as for creating a painting. There are short cuts, but they just do not come to fruition in the end. With horses, "tricks" and short-cuts will take you to a point in the process where the horse is ill, lame, or just completely unwilling to work with you any more. It's sad. I am pleased to see Bruno willingly come in off the field in the morning when he sees me come out, dressed for riding. |
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| Here's Scruffy, almost totally blind, but game to be out there - playing, walking, and being a barn helper. |
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| And then there's Maggie - what a character! That's her best friend, Flossy, behind her. Thank you dropping in to the Farm! Your comments are always welcome. |
