With Gratitude: Spring's Promise, oil on panel, 8x10 inches
- Nancy Rynes
- Apr 9
- 1 min read
Oil on Panel, 8in x 10in
Exhibited: In Studio
Thank you to the new collector who purchased this work.
About this oil:
A beautiful white horse poses with springtime flowers in a peaceful setting.
This piece was originally meant to be a small study for a larger oil painting, but it turned out so strong at this size that I'm not sure a larger piece is needed!
I wanted to make sure that no matter what I did with the painting, it captured the calm and serene quality I wanted to achieve. To do that, I blocked in the backgrounds with varying tones of blue and yellow. I left the flowers to the end, like a woman would put on her jewels last before heading out to a swanky party.
The horse challenged me...how to keep the warmth of the light from clashing too harshly with the cooler tones in the shadowed areas? The secret was to lighten the shadows a bit and bring in some of those colors from the highlights. That's why the shadow side of the horse is anything but pure blue.
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