Well, this watercolor just didn’t work out right. The face had too much detail to it, and the client wanted something more obscure and fantasy like, even though still having that ‘essence’ of the girl and horse that it is of.
So, with much discussion, and then some silent thought on my part for a few hours, it hit me! The girl and the horse are too close to the viewer.
Most of my paintings have the subject matter in the middle ground, not the foreground! WOW…I thought! So I pushed the rider and horse back into the landscape more. This is the sketch that has been approved, and I have already gotten it transferred to the watercolor paper and have applied a little bit of paint. The sketch is below here:
Then just recently, like this past weekend, I had a Facebook fan page, fan, commission me to do a Graphite painting of him and his Paso Fino Mare.
Love this image of them! The photo he sent me, is of their full bodies. After a little bit of discussion, we decided to crop in close to them, for a more intimate feel.
He also asked that I change the hat he had on, in the photo, to a cowboy hat. FUN!
Here is an image of today’s work on this Graphite Painting:
And, here is a completed commission, done in Watercolor. This one will be shipping out of the studio soon.
It’s been a very busy few weeks here in the studio.
Not only with commission work, but with getting ready for exhibit entries, and hitting deadlines for interviews, and guest artist stuff on other Blogs. And painting new work for the 2012 exhibits.
Happy Holidays!
~Debbie
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