musings on painting and parenting, love and life
“Bucephalus” 2.5″x 3.5″ oil on watercolor paper ACEO
This is one of my newer aceo’s. I’ve actually been painting more than one a day lately, I’ve just been lazy about posting! So, you can have a look at all of the other ones on my ebay listings.
Have a great night,
Ciao
Well, I just finished writing this whole post a few minutes ago, and somehow deleted it! Now I have to start again…DAMN! Sometimes I hate computers!
Anyways, I want to thank the wonderful girls who left me some great feedback. I took your advice and now I have a painting that I’m pretty happy with!
I lengthened the mane and tail, and made them fly out, adding to the sense of movement. I definitely feel like this makes it far less static. I spaced out the back legs slightly, defined them, and added a longer shadow. This, along with the longer tail, balances the painting out and makes the horse more grounded. I took away most of the dust behind the horse, and added some color to the dust in front. I defined some of the background shadows, and values, and evened out the color in the mountains.
All in all, I feel pretty happy with it now. Of course, there’s still things I don’t really like, but don’t know how to change, or if they need it. Artists are their own worst critics! But, if anyone sees something that still might need help, let me know. I, unlike most, love constructive criticism!
So here it is, the sketch I promised…I’m not getting near as much painting done as I had hoped. I’m going to have to get more disciplined, I guess. There’s just so much other fun stuff to do and sights to see in Hawaii. I’m taking lots of pictures for future paintings, and visiting as many art galleries as time will allow.
This has all thrown the kids for a total loop. My once almost weaned daughter is now up every two hours a night to nurse. If I don’t nurse her, she won’t sleep sound, so that every time I so much as sigh, she wakes up screaming, demanding “Sa Sa”, (the Nuxalk word for nurse). So I’m back to total, ridiculous exhaustion. I even checked out the SuperNanny site last night to see if she had any words of wisdom that I hadn’t already exhausted. Not so. Nothing works. So I give in.
My usually sweet-natured son has become a whining, demanding troll. He complains all day, and makes his sister mad or hurts her on purpose. We’re in Paradise, but the kids just know that their world has been turned upside down.
Well, if I could get them back on schedule somehow, things might start to settle a bit.
For now, I’m keeping my fingers crossed, and just hoping for time to paint.
I got the underpainting done today, and it’s a big one-18″ x 24″. It’s going to be fun. I’ll keep you posted.
Ciao for now.
