Charm, showing off the only braids that will stay in her endless mane.
For not the first time, but maybe the last time, I have started a "home business". The difference with this one is that it is one I really enjoy. I've drawn and painted horses since I was (at least) five years old--that's the earliest one that my mother saved.By the time I entered my teens, Mother had grown a bit tired of the subject and urged me to do something else with my artwork besides horses. I followed her advice and never looked back until ten years ago when it occurred to me that people might actually pay for horse portraits. I have had many exhibits of my landscapes, and sold a good number of them--but not enough to provide any kind of steady income.
I'm hoping that if I work hard and market this business well I will be able to delight my customers, make some money, and have a lot of fun doing it.
Visit many more horses and my rural landscapes at http://allifarkas.com, or click on my photo above.
Tag Archives: oil painting
Sky Pads 40–A mini version of Sky Pads 39
Managed to get this “small-ish” lotus-themed painting drawn, transferred to canvas, and drowning in a lush paint-poured background over the last week. This one is a tidy 30″ x 30″ (approximately 76 cm) and will be only the fourth one … Continue reading
“Conditionally Done”
I theoretically finished Sky Pads 39 last night, but won’t be willing to label it finished until it sits for a few days and I fail to find anything to tweak or change. Here’s the “conditionally done” photo: If you … Continue reading
Sky Pads 39–A few more hours of hurry up and wait
A quick look at the past, how many days? I’ll figure that out later. Click on the right arrow to see them in progressive order. The flowers are still in their original base color stage. There were a couple of … Continue reading
Slow but sure
I’ve been working on this piece sporadically amid all sorts of “have to do things” that insisted on getting into the way since my last post. Fortunately most of them are either taken care of or under control for now. … Continue reading
Not much to see here
After a long but eventually fruitful search for turpentine (apparently nobody sells it anymore except Dick Blick Art because California has deemed it toxic…) I finally managed to finagle 2 quarts of the stuff which I hope will last till … Continue reading
Done and Drying
I finished this a day late, on January 1. So the goal was “finish in 2023″…oh well. It’s sitting up looking out into my studio and I’m looking at it every day waiting for it to dry so I can … Continue reading
So close!
This is very slow going–the image is the fourth pass on the pads, after 4 passes on the background. I wanted to finish it by the end of the year, which at this point means I have about 6 1/2 … Continue reading
Getting there
Slowly but surely. About 2/3 (?) of the way there. A bunch of layers in progress in this photo. I’m in awe of the background–it’s working way better than I hoped. Sky Pads 28
This was too easy
I juiced the color saturation and contrast up in the photo for this post so you could actually see the white lines for the lily pads, but in real life it’s easy to see the lines with the painting sitting … Continue reading
Lotsa layers…
Got a pretty good start on Sky Pads 38. Four layers down, ?? to go. This one is going to be a bit tricky in the same vein as #’s 27 and 29, which is to say, a very rich … Continue reading
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