Studio Time

This is a painting based on “A Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H Lawrence. …A little bit anyway. Ok… Not at all. It did help inspire the title though. There is an actual rocking horse in there (It’s right next to the eye.) It looks a little bit like a baby reindeer right now. It will probably continue to look like a baby reindeer.

This is the result of a fairly long session. I think I’ve managed to get some of the lower half of this working. I’m using acrylic. It’s easier to sketch with. I managed to get a sort of “mother and child” group going. Something of a recurring theme with me. …There’s a couple of figures that I like. That screeching face up in the right-hand corner is going to undergo some major changes… one of which may have it leaving the painting altogether.

There’s still considerable work to do before I’ll feel comfortable with moving onto oils. I do like this a hell of a lot better than I did when I started with it.

Colors: Sennelier’s Phthalocyanine Blue and Venetian Red, Golden’s Open Acrylic Cadmium Orange, Bone Black, Cadmium Red Medium, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalocyanine Green, Dioxazine Purple and Cadmium Yellow Medium and Utrecht’s Titanium White.