The Finish
I finished the painting today. Since most of the animal was finished previously the only thing left to complete was to finish the snow. I darkened the background with a dark blue and a violet. I am very happy with the results.
wolf workshop
Next Stage
I continue to work on this gorgeous wolf, but all art (to me) is a balancing act to make sure that all the parts of the painting work together to form a cohesive whole. I also want to mention that I changed his eye color to amber from blue. There seemed to be too much blue in …
The Hunter
Today I worked on the fur of the wolf. After establishing a colorful, dark base , I began to add the hair on the wolf . I used a pale off white, grey, black(for darker hair), dark brown and white for the brightest lights. I also put some white on his nose to simulate snow. I …
Horse Video
My good friend Sherry Long made this video at our horse workshop last year. She edited it and added music. I so appreciate her doing that. Now you can see a workshop demo. 🙂 I hope in the future we can have a speed video of an entire painting. That would be very cool! Horse Video …
Wolf Painting-next Stage
I started this painting on a piece of blue velour that I had not used before. As it turned out, it was not a good grade of paper. As I started to put pastel down, problems began…the paper was scratchy and the pastel didn’t lay down well. On top of that, the browns I used looked …