Neck and Neck

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Wonderful work Thea, the washes and pen outlines make it so very you and excellent for that, love the flying mud as well!

Posted by Ros Patterson on Fri 25 Jul 00:06:23

I like it. It will go very well with your other horse racing paintings.

Posted by Pat Harrison on Fri 25 Jul 05:16:29

I love the feeling of the race. The competition between the two of them in that the smaller horse and red jockey seems to be just slightly looking at the more powerful looking green jockey who's battling through and from the determined look of him will win!

Posted by Louise Naimian on Fri 25 Jul 08:31:58

I love it !! I like the looseness, the colours,the action and particularly the element of competition between the two. Lovely work.

Posted by Tony Birchall on Fri 25 Jul 08:54:43

This is really excellent Thea! You have captured so well the movement and excitement.

Posted by Christine Davies on Fri 25 Jul 09:01:46

I agree with above, great energy about this.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Fri 25 Jul 10:17:15

Thank you very much Ros, Pat, Louise, Tony, Christine and Carole for such nice comments. Isn't it funny how you can be so unsatisfied with a painting just after you have finished it and then go back a month or so later and find that you have a completely different view of it? Why is that, I wonder?

Posted by Thea Cable on Fri 25 Jul 16:08:58

Full of movement, energy and some really nice squiggly pen marks!

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Fri 25 Jul 22:43:47

Thank you very much, Fiona - I like wobbly lines (mainly because they hide my less than expert drawing skills!).

Posted by Thea Cable on Fri 25 Jul 22:56:48

Lovely painting Thea

Posted by Glennis Weston on Sat 26 Jul 09:51:36

I think Louise has summed it up well. Lovely.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sat 26 Jul 10:56:21

Smashing work Thea and well done with this awkward subject matter.

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Sat 26 Jul 12:45:14

Thank you very much Glennis, Gudrun and Derek - lovely comments and much appreciated.

Posted by Thea Cable on Sat 26 Jul 13:45:00

You have captured the race very well the colours are great.

Posted by maxwell lennox on Sat 26 Jul 16:01:54

I love this Thea, nothing wrong with your drawing skills as far as I can see. The white paper with that nice sky shape top left set it off a treat. And the washes are great.

Posted by Sharon Van Der Veen on Wed 30 Jul 21:00:40

Discussing tactics strength of subject yet done so lightly, sorry that I missed it before but glad I found it

Posted by JON BAXTER on Thu 31 Jul 11:46:22

After being away for a few days, I have to catch up with the latest postings, sorry for that Thea. So I picked this one out to say: Stunning. You caught the movement with such a spontaneity, it is full of action! I think the spattering is the finishing touch: wonderful!

Posted by Mia Ketels on Sun 03 Aug 10:13:03

Hang on Studio Wall

13/04/2015

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A few months ago, I had a go at a pen and wash of horses racing. I wasn't sure it had worked out, so I stuck in my bottom drawer and forgot about it. Having a tidy I came across it and found that it had grown on me (story of my life I'm afraid!) and I now rather like it. I found the pen hard to balance with the washes and I think it turned out more like a painting but then that happens all the time with me. Done of Fabriano Artistico Extra White.

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Thea Cable

I am a watercolourist first and foremost as I love the qualities of the medium, its riskiness and unpredictability. I started painting about 8 years ago and it has now become an integral part of my life. Hopefully, I will continue to paint into my dotage as I am given to understand that you can…

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