Painting horses

Horses are so amazing- huge, but gentle!!! They have so much power, but they would trust us to direct them. Well, most of the time:).

Ever since I remember myself, I have been bewitched by horses. I should thank the horses for getting me into sketching.  There are quite a few horse sketches that I still have at my parents place. Unfortunately I cant not put pictures of those sketches here, because my parents live in Latvia (Europe), but I'm in South Africa, but maybe I will do just that one day:)

Logically, when I started painting in April, 2010, I soon moved to painting horses. It was Bles in acrylic. the painting is owned by my friend Suz and Bleses owner. From there on, I have painted a few horses and each painting came out better then the previous:)

Condos Goliath (Mr Spots) is the last painting I painted - it is still drying on top of my fridge. This painting is for Goliath owner and my friend Alaine, who kindly allows me to ride this stunning horse!:) It came out so nice, that I might keep away from painting horses for a while, as I'm afraid I would not be able to do a painting better than this... hmmm, lets see how long is that fear going to keep me away from painting another horse:D.

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A blogger

Well, this is me trying out blogging:) As this is totally new to me, it might seem a bit weird or clumsy, but I will surely learn and get better:) I hope you will at least enjoy reading it.

I hope this blog will be the place to share my experiences about paintings and while painting.
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Ritma Grizane

14 in 1!

So today I finished this family portrait. I have never painted a portrait with more than two subjects in the painting, and now- 14!!! Quite a jump! I must say it took loads of motivation, concentration and coffee:)

This is an acrylic painting of size 55 x 75cm on stretched canvas. It possibly would be a better painting if I used an oil paint, but I could not have that luxury as it had to be done in 5 days and oil simply would not dry in 5 days....

As I work from the photo and the reference picture was done before the digital age- the photo was scanned and emailed to me. It also was a black and white photograph. Originally I was going to paint a black and white painting, but I felt that some color on faces would make better impression and stand out.

After all- I hope that the client will be happy about the result:)