got this idea about three weeks ago and have been doodling ever since. Today I think I finally got the image out of my mind and onto paper.
Here is the initial rough (complete with lines from the notepaper I was using) and a cropped version with some color roughed in.
I hope that I can keep the feeling of this little sketch all the way to the final piece, which will be as big as I can get. (I was hoping to do it 4ft by 6ft)
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I have to write what my best friend saw in this sketch. She so gets me!
I CAN SEE IT! You just blow me away. When you first told me of your
idea and said it would be somewhat similar to the Dressage piece you
did years ago, unimaginative me had a vision of a bit of a repeat but
this time a huntsman with lots of color and a bigger painting. I never
took into consideration how a great artist doesn't repeat ideas but
develops and explores them in a new way. The Dressage piece so
perfectly defined the sport. The cropping technique and the angle or
point of view that you used in that painting, draws the viewer into
the center of the painting where the subtle action, the essence of the
sport takes place, the quite aids. Hunting is a big action sport
needing lots of land to make it happen. If you had just done what the
non artist was thinking you were going to do this painting would have
failed. It wouldn't define hunting as powerfully as you defined
dressage. You used the interesting point of view and cropping
technique again but you added movement, powerful athletic movement.
Now the adventurous viewer joins the huntsman on his horse. The
more timid viewer just peers over his shoulder. All of us search
the horizon, the very essence of hunting!
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