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| Work In Progress: Sky, treeline, sand washes begun. |
Please excuse the whacky perspective appearance; I wasn't centered properly when I photographed it and having taken it with a flash tonight, pink hues are showing. They aren't in the original.This is a photo of the work in progress on the commissioned painting that has been filling my evenings and nights. The earth, sky and treeline are started and at the treeline, a small fence will be put there to define the perimeter of the arena. More work will be done to show depth in the trees.
I have been around, owned, raised and trained many horses in my lifetime, in fact we used to take groups of people into the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado to fish, hunt and camp. I feel pretty good about how the mare turned out in this; but I never met the rider, nor do I know exactly what she looks like at the facial angle I was to paint her.
The reference photo I have to use does not clearly show the rider's face; but the client told me "her face is in shadow anyhow, so it doesn't really matter". Little did he know how much it mattered to me.
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