Friday Fun - leftover oil

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Like your Friday fun Gudrun.

Posted by Sylvia Evans on Fri 10 Sep 19:55:08

Love the simplicity of the lines and a pink horse, why not!

Posted by Heather Love on Sat 11 Sep 07:34:24

Lovely foal Gudrun love his pose.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Sat 11 Sep 11:24:10

Lovely foal, Gudrun. I love the simplicity.

Posted by Ellen Mooney on Sat 11 Sep 11:50:31

Thank you for your appreciation. I do like to challenge myself with such a limited number of colours just to see what happens. I think the next version might be ink, so again, no room for error!!

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sat 11 Sep 17:03:49

Very expressive brushwork, Gudrun. Simple, but it captures the essence of the foal. Very nicely done!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Sun 12 Sep 06:42:23

Some more thanks for your appreciation.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sun 12 Sep 18:39:51

Hang on Studio Wall

10/09/2021

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My large canvas is a delicate hue of magenta and earth green. I had a lot of magenta and earth green left so tried to paint a mare and foal with a very difficult foreshortening using just those colours. I will only post the foal. The mare is good until my too large brush made her hind legs into tree stumps!

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Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley

"The good painter has to paint two principal things, that is to say, man and the intention of his mind. The first is easy and the second difficult, because the latter has to be represented through gestures and movements of the limbs." (MK388) From: Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work, p16, J…

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