Ride a Painted Pony
6x6 oil on gesso board
Impressionist Children's painting
$75.00
This is from a photo my wonderful sister, Chrystal Murray sent to me a couple of years ago. Now I'm not one for sweetness and light and little bows and such... but this pretty rocking pony caught my eye and I knew I was going to someday paint her.
She had been standing in line with some tan, banged upped rocking horses, but I opted to leave them out. Instead, she is rocking in a nice pasture of grass where any child can have fun on her all day!
I tried to show the texture of her hair and the plastic-ness of the rest of her. I did not want to just blend everything together. I wanted to still keep my brush strokes in there, and get the look that I was after. I was not trying to be realistic at all, remember, but rather impressionistic. You get the sense of the plastic and the hair texture and the wood handle.You can see a good bit of my on the canvas paint mixing in this piece.
I actually painted this yesterday and goofed off today... the brain needed a break. When you have two different types of headaches going at the same time, you know it is time for a break! But I'm all good now.
Ever onward my goofy friends.
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