Saturday, October 17, 2009

"Hoofin' it" Western watercolor



I have been doing a lot of small watercolor paintings of this young man. He always has a wonderful outfit at the horse shows. This coat was no exception! I think the painting pretty much speaks for its self here. The coat has a split up the back for ease in riding, and as he walked along leading his horse, it was flipping in the breeze he created with his swiftness.
You can also find this painting in my book, "Painting a child a day, the first six months, Volume 1". There are a lot of children and horses in this book. My favorite subject matter. The link to the book is at the top right of this Blog.

~Debbie

2 comments:

Loni Edwards said...

I love that coat! You captured the movement so well in this! Great details too, you even captured the dust from his boots!

Debbie Flood said...

Thank you Loni.
I love that coat too! & the wind was blowing the dust around that day. He's such a fun subject to paint.
Debbie