Experimentation

I've been wanting to experiment with techniques for dapple greys for a while now. To me, dapple grey is a covetous sort of color; those artists who do it brilliantly are few and far between, and to truly be in awe of an artist, she (or he) must paint a good dapple grey. Naturally, then, they've always intimidated me - no matter how easy Danelle says they are to paint! ;)

I've been chatting about my work with Tracy Eilers lately (ah, slow hours at work!) and she was giving me some pointers about her newer dapple grey techniques. I decided to play around with what she told me, and have a SM G3 Warmblood in progress. She's all acrylics, and I'm aiming to make her a dark grey just starting to dapple out. It's a tedious process and somewhat frustrating, but it's been fun - very different from my usual oil paint methods! For now she's mostly a practice for an upcoming commission I hope to do in the same color, but if she herself turns out nicely, I'll probably pop her on eBay and see how she's received.

Welcome!

Hello, and thank you for visiting my blog on my newly updated website!

My intent with this blog is mainly to share what's going on in my studio, in the vein of progress pictures and reports. I find this will be much easier than doing hefty HTML updates to a progress page on my website each time I want to share something. But I'm also interested in just posting general thoughts about the hobby and the nature of what we do, and sharing my techniques as well. In addition, I will post when my website is updated. I don't intend for this to be a replacement for my mailing list, but rather to complement it.

I have a new digital camera on its way to me; my trusty old one purchased in 2004 started fading over the summer and is now completely unusable (it turns on, but I think the lens is dead, as the pictures taken are just black). No matter, as I wanted to upgrade to higher-tech anyway. When the camera comes later this week, expect photos of several horses in progress on this blog.

In the meantime, I wish all my readers a happy Thanksgiving :)