This is a horse study I did tonight, while watching the Gnomon Workshop DVD: Creature Design with Terryl Whitlatch, Volume 3. In this DVD Terryl goes over the techniques she uses for drawing horses... Obviously. Haha.
The reason I jumped ahead and started this DVD instead of finishing up Volume 2 is because I need to paint the Appaloosa painting for Selma, Jamie's grandmother. I met her during my trip to Utah a couple of weeks ago. The lady is a sweet woman who is sadly living in a home for the elderly. She is suffering from Alzheimer's and can hardly remember anything. I remember being in her room and looking around. Her room mate, another elderly woman, had a shelf with a bunch of photographs of her family; Selma had none. Not even a single framed picture. This broke my heart and when the topic of my art came up she asked if I could paint her a horse. I promised her that I would.
So here's a study to get the ball rolling. I can already envision the finished painting. I see an Appaloosa running free in front of a house as Selma and Walter, her late husband, watch. I also plan on painting in Selma's beloved Miniature Schnauzer dogs running along with the horse.
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