June 14, 2017

Thoroughbred….Bridle

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I left off around here from my last post.  I need to step back and take the drawing/watercolor in as I proceed.  Helps to see what needs to be done next.

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The horse’s head, first I need to make sure the straps and buckles make sense before I apply the watercolor.

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Then I put a light yellow wash down on all those straps.

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Since I was in the vicinity…..I adjusted some of the snout pigment using all my browns and purple.  I’m always surprised at how versatile purple is!  It’s probably   my favorite underlying color. 

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This ring was bugging me, so I got out my circle stencil and adjusted the lines a bit.  But the problem coming up next…. is it’s a perspective circle….meaning it’s not straight on.  

Hopefully, I can just trick the eye here!  Haha.

June 6, 2017

Thoroughbred….Eye

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I’ve enhanced my jockey a little from where I left off in the last post.  I’ll need to go back in and push the shadows and folds darker soon.

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I seem to be all over the place with this horse, not working in sections like I had in my previous horse.

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The horse’s eye was creeping me out, it looked like a ghost’s eye…so I skipped ahead to give it some life.

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The straps and harnesses on this horse are all dark…but I liked the lighter strap lines from the previous horse.  I will pull in my creative license and try to change the dark brown straps to tan.  Bummer…that I changed my mind here, cuz I already laid down some rust color for that strap on the upper left side.

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These two are starting to take shape now.  I’m trying to lay down color overall, before I get too carried away with the details!

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