Cruising

Another boat painting started. I love vessels. :)


Cruising: Step 2

Off to do some shopping before continuing. It's my BIRTHDAY, .... YEAH!

(Don't ask my age.)

End of the day update.

Bear Drinking, need a better name for this one.

Pam

The Last Day

Well, it looks like I'm going to be painting on my deadline day. No problem. My old dog is limping less, I had a good sleep and I'm ready to work. :)

Just the horse to finish. I added the fence in front of the barn and changed the colour of the sky.

The before:

And the afternoons progress: Colouring the horse and changing the shape of the face.

And the finished version:

On to the next painting. :)

Pam

AAARRRRGH!.

I was tired and discouraged last night, I usually get that way at this point in every painting. Just before the last push I always wonder if I am on the right track.

I went to bed and was kept awake half the night by a house party going on close by. Somewhere around 3 a.m. it ended and I was able to sleep. AAAAARRRRGH!

Anyway, after a few hours of uninterrupted rest, I awoke ready to tackle the painting head on. I put down the brushes and started to finger paint. The result is a correct colour on the right and left.

Now for all the details. I need to pump up the body colour of the horse again to make it pop out of the painting, add all the body and face details and introduce some detail to the barn.

I have until tomorrow to finish and then varnish. YIKES! Better get moving.

Evening Post:

More aggravation! My 14 year old dog hates thunderstorms. A noisy one this afternoon gave him the idea of hiding upstairs. This is something he hasn't done for years because his legs have a difficult time navigating stairs. I heard him head for the stairs and before I could get out of my chair I heard bump, bump, bump. Not a great sound but he walked back into the living room with a slight limp. Now, a few hours later he is really limping and I have a heating pad on his leg. I was able to get him outside before night but I don't know what the morning will bring. :(

On to the painting:

The background has changed and I'll start on the horse after I correct the golden sky colour. I don't like the way it has darkened when it dried.

Pam

Step 10: The Horse Gift

I really needed to step away from the painting for a while.

I thought I was going completely wrong and then I checked this step with the original panel and it isn't far off. :)

So, I'll let that dry. It's quite thick as I like texture. The clouds are coming along and I have to fix the shape of the head.

More to come, but for now, here is step 10.

And here was step 1 with the original colours I had matched from the beginning of the panel.

Once I change the colour of the left grass is should be close enough to finish in the details.

Pam

Step 9: The Horse Gift

I have decided to call my painting just, "The Draft Horse". It's self explanatory and I have to right a history about the breed to go on muralmosaic.com.

Step 9: I changed the right hand side a bit but the barn is too light now and the grass still needs work. Tomorrow I will concentrate on the left side so I have a good comparison for the finishing of the right side.

I had to recolour the cheek of the horse and will add all the detail of the face later to make sure it stands out. I have 3 days left to finish the horse and then mail it out.

The next painting to work on will be "Puma on the move."

Pam

Step 8: The Horse Gift

Today I am correcting the colour of the farmyard and will change the sky to clouds. I have to make the grass more purple, then add the fence lines.

Step 8:

Pam

3 more mural steps.

Here is step 5 of "The Horse Gift" mural, panel #163.

I just made sure the proportions were correct before continuing.

Next is step 6 where I start to change the colour on the right, trying to get the same values or darkness as the purple was. The paint keeps changing colour as it dries so it may take a few tries.

You can see I added a fence that he always looked over. To get an idea of his size, I am 5'6" and I am about the height of the fence post. This is a typical picture I usually got when I went across the road to visit him. :)

Step 7 adds the barn in the top, right-hand corner and corrects the colours on the manure piles behind him. (They don't smell, they have been composting for a couple of years. It is what I put on the vegetables in my own garden. :)

You can see I lightened the colour on the right again but I'm not satisfied with the hue. I need to work on it.

More tomorrow.

Pam