read somewhere that no artist can call himself one until hes painted a horse...................................
so here goes these are my horses.........both are referenced from an art forum http://www.wetcanvas.com/ which is where ive learned 90% of my art skills, and i cant recomend it enough for anyone wishing to learn anything art-related!
anyway the first piece is a foal with its mother, paid attention to the proportional differences in foals wrt adult horses. foals normally have longer legs and an unsteady gait.
this underpaintings in verdaccio(a grissaille leaning towards cooler greys leaning towards green)
verdaccio was used owing to my chosen colour scheme for this painting. the scene is backlit making it a bit tricky to get the light correctly.

I worked more carefully than normal. I also noted an increase in confidence with the brush strokes.
A big smile on his face, adis...gonna give rembrandt a complex soon enough!!!!


next ones of wild horses being rounded up by stud farmers(vague silhouettes in a distance)
creating quite a dust storm in the process

wanted a rosy hue in the grissaille

not intended as a complement but as this would enhance the richness of the following colour layers



the snaps tone down the rosy hue and are darker (more contrasty) than the original.
A note on my chosen method: transparent colour layers (or glazes) enable colour to mix optically. thus resulting in a brighter jewel like effect. these hues cannot be oobtained by directly mixing paints or any other method.
for example if we required an orange say, we would apply a layer of transparent yellow, wait for it to dry completely and then apply a layer of trasnsparent orange. the resultant orange would be optically mixed. this orange is much brighter than the same orange were it to be mixed using red and yellow on a pallette. the hue is the same but the optical orange is way way brighter than the opaque one. This orange cannot be achieved by ANY other method. The application of these transparent layers(called glazes and scumbles) are an artform unto themselves, perfection of which can only be learned by a lot of practice and experience. im still not great at it but have achieved pretty decent results in some places.