The Painting Journey of the Texas Red Horse Trailer

The process continues. Some days, short period of time are available to paint. Usually, if a few minutes to paint pop-up, advanatage is taken of this precious time which keeps moving a painting forward. Again, areas are being reworded until they feels comfortable. A great deal of “think time” is being used for problem solving when not painting.

Stage Four:

Started to block in the color for the fence post; continue to work on the flowers. The flowers are expressionistic yet very tedious to paint. Focus is always on Value (lights and darks) and expressing the feel of sunlight coming through theses very delicate flowers.

Started to darken the foreground grasses, in shadow, with a little more detail; worked on adding more white flowers. The thought was to accomplish a soft dark centered white flower in partial foreground shadow. 

Thought I was finished with the sky –  I wasn’t; re-applied frisket to the post, top of the barn roof and glazed a few more times to darken the sky. Removed the frisket and started developing the value of the back lit fence post. Saw lots of color in this old post with character.

A little hard to see, work is being done on the inside of the barn. Areas are being darkened and pushed back by adding another layer of darker watercolor the interior of the barn.

Thanks for joining me on another day’s journey through my maze.

Mary Dove

Bye for now. See you Thursday evening.