A friend asked me to paint his beloved horse, which unfortunately is not roaming this world anymore. I so much wanted to make him happy which a great painting that reminded him of his friend!
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I sat down and started off with a few sketches, then getting out my paints — first acrylics, and then gouache … then back to acrylics, then oil pastels …
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A couple of days later I had a few paintings that kind of looked like his horse, but i didn’t like any of them. They were good in the sense that the proportions and colours were right, the facial features as well, but I felt no joy looking at them!
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As my frustration was growing bigger, at the same time there was a deep longing for expressing my own love for these deeply fascinating creatures! I was thinking of my own horse, Ímir, who has been injured for 18 months now! Over those months my love for him has even deepened — I can’t ride, but I can take him for walks, I can massage his back, and I scratch his fur in those places he loves most. Every time I come to see him, he greets me with a little grumbling sound, and he touches my face with his soft nose.
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So I laid out a new piece of paper, chose my palette (manganese blue, permanent violet, Payne’s grey and white), and started from imagination.
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The horse with rider you see here is all about the love and friendship one can have with a horse. My goal was not to create an exact replica of my horse, but rather capture that energy and feeling.
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But most importantly, I feel something when I look at this painting. Do you?
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