Diary of a Cow Painting
I was given a commission to paint some cows and thought I would keep a blog of its progress.
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The blank canvas is 70 cm x 90 cm.
This is the image that will be painted.
Set-up in my little atelier.
Mess on the floor.
More mess!
Mixing acrylics for the background candy-pink (10 mins to dry on canvas).
Close-up of acrylic dollops.
Candy-pink mixture and palette knife (chib).
Old tea-towels used as deposits for unused paint.
Partially-filled candy-pink background using acrylics. Gives warm, summery tinge to painting.
Island of white.
Almost there!
Pretty in pink!
Thin charcoal sticks for painting cowtlines. One man and his dug in the Scottish cold outside.
Carbon close-up.
Outline sketch in charcoal.
Another view. Left-hand cow (Marguerite) will be modified.
No.1 cow head - her name is Mathilde.
Next up we have (left to right) Fleur and Paquerette.
Left-hand cow (Marguerite) has a new visage.
Oily dollops for cow-hides on throw-away palette.
Dollops, rainbow mess and a partial foot.
Box of colour.
Bright colours first.
Front view.
From the left.
Close-up of Mathilde.
Partially-scraped palette board.
Friesian colours addition.
Front view.
De la gauche.
Mathilde in action.
Fleur and Paquerette being born.
Bonjour Marguerite.
Finished palette scrapings. Everything is applied using a palette knife (chib).
New palette for grass.
Herbivores.
Front view.
Left-hoof view.
Grassy knoll close-up.
Sky palette.
Finalised oil painting. Presenting (left to right) Marguerite, Mathilde, Fleur and Paquerette.
