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Thank you Faye, Sylvia, Marjorie and Heather for your kind and encouraging comments. Robert thank you for your comment and the rest of what you wrote, I agree with you wholeheartedly good sir. I need to start on doing the horses main today and to be quite honest in dreading it . I like what I have done so far and have reach that stage that Robert alludes to re worried about spoiling it. The main of the horse who’s photo I took is almost black , but I don’t want to use that as it had an almost maroon tint to it in the light . My fear is it will look flat and so wrong in colour. Oh what the hell ,up and onward I can only make a pigs ear of it to quote Robert. Thank you all again for your encouraging comments.
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Well a deep breath and took the plunge , darkened the the mane a touch but not as dark as in reality. I will use the lighter colours as highlights when I detail the hair a bit more . Phew didn’t realise I wax holding my breath when I was painting it.
Not much more as I don’t want to overwork it , a bad habit I have to keep control of. The next bit is a title now there’s a thing I find difficult. 
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Thank you Tessa and Gillian your comments are very encouraging. One of the great thing’s about POL is the support and encouragement that we give to each other. I told a friend that I worry when I do a W I P, that people may get bored of what I’m doing, and worse still think its a bit of showing off . I do them because it’s a challenge and makes me think about what in doing , I also hope it temps other to have a go. I’m not worried about making a fool of myself as I have spent a lifetime perfecting that.
Hope to be able to paint and finish it off later today .
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Paul you are quite right about the support on POL. It seems to be grown up people on here. I recently had a dabble on Grayson’s Art Club on Facebook, only to find that I got criticised for making suggestions to make a portrait more accurate. But I am not going to say anything is wonderful if is not.
Looking forward to seeing the finished horse.
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Well said Linda, I much rather someone saying something constructive and helpful , much better than destructive.
Very perceptive of you Steve, the photo was taken at a local home stable, apparently the oldest horse there . The sign on the stable door gave a name and said do not feed / especially apples as it makes me windy , someone had crossed out windy and put fart. It did look very fed up .
