Work in Progress: Horse Painting

Painting in progress

I have two diametrically opposite ways of approaching a painting.  One is to make preliminary sketches and plan it out.  The other is to splash a bunch of paint down and then see what comes of it.  This piece belongs to the latter category.

It was a piece of paper that’s been sitting around for years.  I think I’d done something crazy like puddle on a bunch of paint and let it dry covered with plastic wrap.  Although I liked the results, it always seemed too, well…dynamic to make a good background.  So it always ended up getting shoved back into a folder.

This time when I pulled it out, though, the horses appeared.  So I started painting them in…

Not sure how it will turn out but it’s fun to work on.

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