Recently I posted this 24 x 24 landscape that I had finished quickly for an event. Bringing it home and living with it a bit, I found it lacked something. A friend suggested horses, and at first I couldn't see them. But like the figures in a Harry Potter photograph or painting, they entered the frame and moved across the surface until I found them lolling there. There was a Dylan song with the line:
All the tired horses in the sun, how'm I s'posed to get any riding done... Yes, these could be Dylan's horses, basking in the sunny golden grasses.
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| Fields of Gold - 24 x 24 acrylic on deep cradle panel - now at Sautee Gallery for the Fall show.. |
I also softened the tree's foliage. It looks complete to me now. I do love those "empty" spaces in landscape, though. I'll prolly be doing another version of this - sans equine - until I get it right, or the horses move in again.
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| Original version. |
2 comments:
Nice! I like how the placement of the horses adds a complementary path for the eye to follow with the line of the tree, both leading to the horizon. Good work!
I like it with horses(of course). I wonder what they are looking at?
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