Painting in Progress

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Hello and Welcome once again. The painting is progressing well and now we start with the Oil Paints.

My friends for whom this commission is being painted dropped in to have a look at their painting. It was  great to have them over and now they can't wait to see the completed painting :) 

So my oil paints to paint the back ground are all mixed up on the glass pallette. (It's so easy to clean these glass pallettes. I have three of them so at least  one is always clean and handy)

 

 

 So I begin with the same color mixes as I used while doing the acrylics. Now the oil painting will be done faster because most of the work has been done in the underpainting.  


Its a good idea to  spend a fair amount of time mixing my colors and have them all ready before I begin to paint because then I don't have to stop in between to mix more in case I fall short. 

The background starts..I apply the color using three different brushes and and a fourth one just to do the soft blending.

 

 Once the background is done we start with the brown horse . Blocking in the darkest patches first and slowly working my way up to the lighter parts.

The face and the eye take more time.

The brown horse is complete!

Now for the Black one.

Black Horses take more time and are more difficult to paint because when the whole horse is black its difficult to decide which are the dark patches I must begin with !

And therefore we shall proceed very slowly  ... Here I work simultaneously with dark and light areas. 

There! Its done. 

 
  

Now the color for the 
Chestnut Horse
 is mixed up.



 


 
But the light is fading in the sky and its so not a good time to paint. Let's do the third horse in the natural light tomorrow.

                  After that it  will be mostly highlighting the splash and adding some finishing touches . 

See you tomorrow!

untill then...

Think about this..

 LISTEN and SILENT are spelled with the same letters :)

Love