Daily Art 2011: Day 002

Here's day 2... a study in partial failure. :D I decided to try an experiment with the background on this piece, and it didn't work. It spectacularly didn't work. Unfortunately with colored pencil on this sort of paper, it's about as permanent as ink, so to rectify the problem the piece would pretty much have to be redone. Oh well. I like how the charcoal portion of it came out, anyway. :D I also don't have a scanner at home, so this is a crop from a photograph and the quality therefore sucks. A lot. I'm sorry.

I'm a little in love with the drama of my source material (this was drawn with kind permission from a photo by Cheri Prill) and have been contemplating making this a larger piece in acrylic. Since I haven't done much in the way of painting before, I'll probably save the concept for a little later in the year when I've done more experimenting with acrylics and am comfortable having a go at something as big and grand as I envision this being.

Feh. Anyway, here it is. This horse is a Friesian Sport Horse named Renegade O Mage, and belongs to Mark & Leslie Weiler. I hope to do him more justice in the future. :D

Day 002