At last - an ink sketch

Yes, having finished my painting project yesterday, and taken care of today's big chore, getting the car MOT tested, I went back to my old faithful ink pens, and my old faithful Sketching Every Day Facebook group. Today's prompt was firefighters, fire stations and fire hydrants. Immediately this brought to me the recent Notre Dame fire, which inspired the following sketch: - 

- And relax . . .

Yes, the plough horse painting is finished. Here it is:-

Well happy.

Plough Horse update

Here's where I am now: -

Very pleased with the way this one is coming. This is 4 days' work, probably with an average of 4 hours work each of those days.

Plough Horses Project

In my last post I mentioned the plough horse painting. I spent maybe 3 more hours on it yesterday. This is where I stopped on Saturday, the day I started sketching it onto the canvas board:-

Considering how long it took me to make the harness racing painting, this was quite an achievement for one day's work.

Here's where the painting is at the moment: -

I did a fair bit more work on the background before starting on the first horse. You can see the sparse foliage to the left has been painted in. I've also darkened some of the areas of bare soil. The most obvious difference though is the work I've done on the horse on the left. I'm delighted with the head, but not yet finished with the lower legs - that blue grey is just the base and will be painted over during the next session which, all things being equal, should be today.

Racehorse pencil sketch

Been a while since I made a graphite sketch. I was taking a break from the plough horse painting and it struck me that I've made several larger acrylic paintings of horses, and one ink sketch during the challenge, but I've never done one in pencil. So I got my cheap small sketchbook, and an ordinary HB pencil and I made this sketch :-

New Project: Plough Horses

Yes, I've embarked upon another acrylic painting. Look, I only really have time to work on these during school holidays, so don't blame me too much for this. I'll soon be back in work and won't have time to do much other than ink sketches.

I enjoyed the last painting so much I decided to go horsey again, another 16x20 canvas board, but this time a pair of mighty plough horses. Here's the basic sketch onto canvas:-

Sketchbook Revival Is Back

If you've never tried out sketchbook revival you can do a lot worse than giving it a go. I did it last year, and enjoyed and found a lot of it very useful, and I'm signed up again for this year. If you want to learn more, then follow the link, and sign up. It's free, people!

Sketchbook Revival