The Painting Journey of the Texas Red Horse Trailer

Stage Five:

Worked on the fence post with the orange under painting, used blue to create texture and start to suggest the back lite shadow on the post. Still futzing with the white flowers – not happy yet.  Worked on the brown small bush on the left of the post (love to paint dead sticks and weeds; addressed the stone fence in the mid-ground with a little more detail. 

Not sure you can see a touch of red from the trailer in the hayloft, just to the left of fence post; another touch of red just to the left of the barn under the lean-to in the grass. Red was also pulled down into the shadowed grass area in the lower right of the painting.

The image seems small however; this is a 15 x 22, half sheet watercolor paper.

Applied washes over the orange on the post, to knock the color down of the under painting. Added the wood strip to the front of the roof, added the distant fence posts, applied another wash to the red trailer, played more with the white flowers.

As you watch the grass grow, this painting will be finished.

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

 Mary Dove

Bye for now. See you Saturday evening.