Sunday, July 17, 2016

Goldie...


Here's a photo of the 10 by 20 inch oil painting I recently completed on canvas. It's based on a 2 by 4 inch section of a photo I took years ago of my horse Goldie in the autumn at a barn where he lived for a dozen of the over 20 years I owned him. The last couple of years of his life -- until he was around his early 30s -- we lived together in Merrimack, NH. 
Before calling this painting finished, I did a lot of work visually balancing the composition to provide detail to attract the viewer's eye, and to reach a point where both at a distance and close up it conveys what I wanted to capture: the image of a much loved companion in peaceful contemplative repose surrounded by glorious New England fall foliage.
R.I.P., Goldie -- I'm thankful for the great memories and having had such a good friend that I still love very much.
I took this photo of the unframed painting on an easel, so the stuff in the background is just books, furniture, etc. As usual, the image quality and size have been adjusted for uploading purposes....


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