New Portrait Painting:

Doing this for a friend as a thank you.  I didn't get a chance to photograph all the progress I've done up to this point. My camera batteries went dead and I couldn't wait for the charger to charge them up to paint.  So I got started already. But I'll add some more pictures of him so far as he goes. 

The next set of pictures below I did tonight. He's almost done.
But not quite. I'll finish it up tonight I think. (Some of the pictures I took with the flash and most I didn't use the flash. So the lighting looks alittle different on some of them. The first one below I used the flash)

We're really close now.  lol  He's almost done.

Here is the last progress picture.

And here he is all done. 

New Models Coming Up:

(Edited to say,  You know the more I look at the Brahma, the more I've decided he needs to be polled!  I think his face is too wrinkly and cute to hide or be distracted by the horns getting in the way.  OFF THEY GO! lol)

I'm working on some new models currently.  I'm kind of excited about how some of these are going so far, because a couple I haven't done before..  

I'm doing another Dairy Cow, but that's not anything new.lol  

And I'm also working on a dancing Marwari out of a Lonesome Glory model.  It's neck-less right now. lol.

Next, I'm doing something I haven't done in a while.  A LONGGGG while.  I started digging around my old model box and found a Brahma Bull I started years ago and never finished.  I tore it back down and started over.  I did a bit of an overhaul to him.  He's got new eyes. I sculpted new eye sockets and eyes over the existing ones and gave him a lot more detail. You know how the Breyer original Brahma has these almost cutesy cat shaped eyes that are too big?  Really odd. I gave him new eyes and eye wrinkles. I gave him a more droopy pouty mouth. He's got a new dewlap under his chin and down to his chest that's larger than the original. Both of his original ears were removed and new larger floppier ears are sculpted to look more realistic.  I had originally turned this guy's horns downward and left them long, but the more reference pictures of Brahma bulls I looked at the more natural looking it was to have the horns shortened a bit.  The horns aren't so unrealistically long now.  He's got a slightly larger hump on his back and more muscle. His tail was removed from the leg and swinging straight down and I added more whispy hair to the end of it too. 

I'm liking this bull a lot.  Can't wait to paint him. Oh and I almost forgot. lol  I turned his head to one side a little so he's not facing straight ahead so stiff looking. I'm still on the fence if I should remove his horns and poll him altogether though.  I don't know if he'd actually look better with no horns. Hmmm

Now, I've never done this before.  I think it's bound to have been done before by someone though.  I mean how many ways can you resculpt this guy without doing something similar.  But I've never done this before so I'm excited about it.  I'm doing the spanish fighting bull standing with his head up and walking. I love this! I also turned his horns more forward. He's got a new bottom lip and dewlap.  I have a small section on his chest I couldn't get to while he was still damp and needed to wait for him to dry and set up before completing him.  I'm not sure how I wanna paint him.  I love this picture I found of a spanish bull that's black and has some white on his stomach and undersides like a sabino type marking.  Then, I found some pictures of a black and white splashy flashy roaning looking one.  I don't know what I wanna do.  I guess whatever jumps out at me that seems to fit the sculpture is what I'll do. 

A Picture Says a Thousand Words:

I don't know what's funnier, the lemon and white one's side eye or the black and white one's full on murder face! 

So THIS is really how the family dogs feel about the new baby! LOL 

And this one...is so funny.  Don't wake up a sleeping Japanese Chin!  

Jersey Cow "Melinda" Complete:

I  must say, I think she's one of my best cows I've ever done, at running the risk of sounding too proud.  I like this one.  I think she turned out ok. She's in MH$P. To view her there click HERE

 

Jersey Cow Work In Progress:

This one is the cow I've been painting now.  I did some sculpting to her to change her.  She's got all new fuller udders and teats. She's had her head lowered and turned. Her tail separated from her leg. And I opened her mouth some because she's going to have some hay inserted into her mouth like she's eating.  I'm thinking of doing her as a full blooded Jersey or maybe a Holstein Jersey cross, but I haven't decided. I do want her to have some white on her though, so even then she could still be a full blooded Jersey because they can have white patches also.  She's going through a lot of pastelling and then I'm doing layers of acrylic washes which right now is why she looks really sloppy. She's just got base coloring in right now.  Then I shadow that and then highlight, then detail. 

So she's in a rough stage right now but she'll look better soon.  She's also a lot darker than the camera is picking up.  I had the same problem with the last Akhal Teke mare too.  She's a lot darker than she looks in the pictures.  But hopefully I'll get some really accurate pictures when she's done. Her face is going to be really dark but I'm also darkening her body also.  She's going to be one of those very dark rich colored Jerseys. Like this one.

Akhal Teke Mare Will Be Up Tonight:

She's finally finished and has tack too.

Akhal Teke Mare Progress:

This is the Akhal Teke Mare I'm not quite finished with.  She's much darker buckskin than the pictures seem to show.  The flash was on so she looks lighter,  but she's not quite done yet. She's got a roached mane and angry pinned ears. She's also got more of a lippy mouth too. I raised her head up some to look more obnoxious and angry.. She's out of the Breyer Marwari model.