 | I thought I should do another drawing for a free aceo. Anyone can enter and all it takes is to do one or all of the things listed below and you’ll get 1 entry for each thing that you do. The drawing is for an original horse or landscape aceo, your choice. You get to choose the breed, color, season for a horse aceo,, or if you only want a landscape, you can choose the season, type of landscape(mountains, valley, trees, river etc…). Or I can just surprise you if you want. Drawing ends October 15th 2009 (winner will be drawn on the 16th and posted on my blog) - Comment on this post telling me what breed, color and season you’d like for a horse one- or if you’d like a landscape and what kind (if you don’t care what breed, color, etc… then you can just say so and I’ll surprise you, if you’re the winner)
- Subscribe to my artist blog (You’ll find this on the right side of the page) and post a comment here telling me you did.
- Join my Facebook page and post a comment here telling me you joined.
- Bid on one of my ebay listings and leave a comment telling me you did. You’ll get 2 entries for this one.(you do not have to be the winning bidder to recieve your entries)
So that’s it! Hope many will join in,, everything is free, shipping and everything! Once the contest is over I will begin on the painting and ship it out within 2 weeks after the winner is announced. Have a wonderfull week!  Snow Play ACEO Under Painting I know, I know, I said I’d have something for you all yesterday morning, but I didn’t have time that night to get any painting done whatsoever, so I hope you’ll forgive me (-: I did, however, get some done last night, although not quite as much as I’d hoped, but at least you’ll get to see more of the process. My hand needs more and more breaks, so this will probably be a 3 day painting. What I did here was basically a simple underpainting, just to lay in the color basics and placement of things. First I filled in the sky with a mixture of paynes gray and white. Then I added the trees with some raw umber, a tad of paynes grey and a little white to lighten it a bit. And then I added some snow on the ground with mostly white and a tad of paynes grey. After that I added the fir tree and then I added some far off evergreen trees in the distance with a mixture of some hookers green, paynes grey and white. I really should have done the distant evergreens right after painting in the sky, but I didn’t think of it untill later, but that’s ok! So I’m not real concerned about color right now, except for the sky and distant trees, just so I have the basics laid in and I can see clearly where everything is going and the light and dark areas. I’ll get the background finished tonight and maybe do the underpainting for the horse. Don’t worry, he will have a tail when I’m done!lol (: Hope you’ll continue to follow me with this painting! Have a great rest of the week!  Arabian Horse Art ACEO Painting So I am finally starting another “painting in progress”. Though I’m not sure how my right hand will hold up. The last couple weeks it has been getting numb and tingly on me whenever I try to do much with it because of swelling from pregnancy. I may just have to take lots of breaks and take a little more time for now. I think this one is going to turn out beautifully though. There are times when I’m trying to draw the first sketch for a painting and I wonder,, “Do I even know how to draw??” I end up erasing and starting over untill it finally comes together,, but for this one, the horse just flowed right out and I only had to fix a couple little things. Now I usually end up fixing a few more things once I get started painting the horse, but for the rough sketch, this turned out just the way I wanted it to. So this is going to be a snow scene with lots of snow covered trees in the background and some of the grey sky showing through. The fence in the middle ground will be topped with snow and I’m thinking of maybe putting some sort of winter type bird or squirrel on top of the fence, or maybe just a nice white snow rabbit running out of the horses way as he charges playfully through the snow. I haven’t quite decided yet on the color of the horse. Maybe a lovely sorrel with flaxen mane and tail and some nice high white socks that almost go to his knees,, or a black Arabian….. Anyway, any suggestions are certainly welcome. I’ll need to make my mind up by tonight though, as I plan on starting on it tonight and hopefully finishing it too, although this is one that might need 2 nights to get it the way I want especially with my hand acting up. Well, that’s that. I’ll post another pic probably tomorrow morning of it in progress and I hope you enjoy! |
