I’m travelling, I won’t have internet access, so no diary paintings.
I seem to be missing a day. No idea what happened here…
Anyway, November 4 is a really tiny cutesy canvas of 4 inches across. This is the two-year old foal my friend S got as a wedding gift. It’s a mixed Lusitano and a wild roaming Dartmoor pony. You see, they have a small herd of these ponies running wild in some nature reserve, and there is this Lusitano stallion who breaks out once a year, travels a few miles, and has his way with the mares. The result is a number of unwanted mixed offspring.
This foal was one of the reasonably nice ones. It was very wild and scared, and it’s legs are a bit wonky. But my friend S is brilliant with training difficult horses and she is doing wonders with this foal. She has had her for 5 months now and even her legs are getting more straight.
I painted this tiny canvas with the gluebrush, a bit difficult.
Yeah, this one took me two days!
I did do my 0ctober 30 painting, but due to me having dinner with friends and then straight off to a concert, home after 02.00 so I didn’t post it.
Well, here it is,
October 30
A ”glue-brush” painting of a
Frisian stallion
The usual 8 × 8 inch
Oil on canvas
And October 31
tried something new, I dipped a reedpen in diluted oilpaint. I used a mix of terpentine and retouching varnish to dilute it.
Arab horse
8 × 8 inch
Oil on canvas
Next February we are going to have a side-saddle weekend. It’s one of our regular ponycamps with lessons. for the booklet I have been asked to make a drawing. But I have to do my diary painting too. It’s getting too busy!
So why not combine the two.
So here’s my painting for the day!
This was a famous circus rider in the nineteenth century.
Been going trough an old sketchbook, saw a nice sketch of an Appaloosa, and decided to do that one for today’s diary painting. Then I thought I’d start on a black canvas for a change.
I started to make a sketch in white paint, and sort of kept adding to it. Until I thought; ”Hum, that’s sort of finished”. And no room really for the spots on this one. Oh, well, another time then.
That’s always a very important and difficult decision: when to STOP!!!!
White horse for Achelois
Acrylic on canvas
8 × 8 inch
I’m reading a book about Geiko’s.
Fascinating but harsh world. Full of art, culture beauty, and intense loneliness.
At least nowadays it’s a career choice.
It takes a long time and lots of study before you become a Geiko. And 50 year old Geiko’s are still studying and practising dance and music every day. Ultimate perfection is something one will never reach but always strives for.
That is the way of the artist all over the world I suppose, but the world of the Geiko takes it one step further. I admire this dedication to perfection.
Geiko
Acrylic on canvas
8 × 8 inch
Last spring holiday, when Tarq and I went to a ponycamp with my friends, two huge kladruber draft horses were stabled there as well. My friend J raved about their huge bottoms!
As it happened I have been mailing quite a lot with J recently. So here’s for J:
October 26
BIG BOTTOM
Oil on canvas
7,9 × 7,9 inch
This is Al Tarq rolling in the sand. I made a sketch of this. I like it so much I maybe doing a large one of this one 
I like keeping it simple. I really like just painting the horse and nothing else. Nothing to distract from the beautiful perfection of line form and movement.
Another colour effect which always fascinates me is the strange purplish reflection dark brown horses have on their coats when they are clean and the sun is shining. It took a lot of guts the first time I really used it; I had just painted a really pretty dark brown mare, and I was probably going to destroy her by adding the purple. It worked out perfectly!
So here I’m giving a try on Al Tarq, who is of course dark brown, and pretty shiny if I put some hard work to it. Not that I get much joy of it because he will immediately try and get dusty again by a good old rolling…
At least he is happy.
Oktober 25
Oil on canvas
7,9 × 7,9 inch
I am working at a large canvas. A portrait of Krabbe. Krabbe is a Lippizaner mare belonging to a friend of mine. I am filming the process of this painting for a YouTube video. But I am also planning a rather extreme simplification. It’s going to be a play of light and dark, and sunlight and reflection. So while it is a portrait, it is also a play with light, shadow reflection and colour. Although, again, it’s basically black and white. But not really. If you look close you will see all kinds of colours. I decided to try it out on the small canvas of my daily diary. It fits as a diary painting as this big painting is very much upon my mind at the moment.
So here is the 7,9 × 7,9” painting of today 24th of Oktober. Sold
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