Work in progress - ponies

Work in progress - Gledi

Punching it up!

More work on Gledi

Still working on building up the dark and light values.

Works in progress

I've been slowly glazing all the subtle little planes of these ponies faces. The yellow lines are a chalk grid I keep applying in an effort to align the paintings as accurately as possible to my reference photos.

Works in progress

Ponies

Here's the start of Willow. I can't seem to get my photo of Gledi to upload.

Bummer! Bummer! Bummer!

I was so excited to get started on my paintings of the ponies. Today, however, I received my order for canvases and unfortunately they were defective. It really rankles me that Dick Blick would ship these! Admittedly they were on sale, but they are made by Winsor-Newton which I assumed would produce a quality product. One canvas is bowed and the other has a scalloped edge and a big dimple poked into it's canvas.

New project

Today I did a second photo shoot for my next commission. I LOVE my job! How cool is it to be in an arena while two Icelandic ponies frolic about? They nimbly avoided running me over.

Their owner loves my work, bought my Venus and Califa paintings, loved Detroit and asked me to paint each of her horses. These will be rather large - 24x36" - and will be quite dramatic hanging together.

On a side note: she says that this breed roams freely in Iceland. They are friendly and will let strangers approach and ride them!

New Commission

It's wonderful when a lead actually materializes from an art show! I will be painting some icelandic ponies for a woman who has collected my work in the past. Here is my mock-up for how they will fit into her office.