School painting too...

Besides spending all my free time painting murals, I've also finished another painting at school. This project was to do a "glaze" painting. Unfortunately you can't see the transparent quality to this artwork. In glazing you use a clear Liquin suspention that you add small amounts of color to. The Liquin causes the oil paint to dry quickly, and so you paint on one day, it dries, and then you paint another layer on the next day, ect. Each layer is semi-transparent, and so you gradually build up the color layer-by-layer. As stated by our instructor, "the light goes through the layers and is deflected like through sheets of glass."

Oh well, it's all lost in a crappy cellphone photo of it.

"Memories Racing By"

On this project we were to bring things from home to paint, hence the horseracing junk.

• I had one horseshoe that I just duplicated around the painting.
• The horse is one of my favorite childhood Breyer plastic horses (I had like 50 of them as a kid, and still have a box of about 25 in the attic).
• The boot I wore while walking hots at the track, averaging 10 miles a morning which is why there's a blowout on the side of the leather (and a permanent bunion that developed in the joint of my foot).
• The bale of hay I painted off memory.
• The saddle sheet was from the Stonerside Stakes at Lone Star, where working for Asmussen we had the filly Gilded Wings entered. I think she came in like 3rd or so in the race. In the bigger stakes races where they print the name of the horse onto the saddle sheet, afterwards the grooms like to keep their horses' sheets as momentos. But, occassionally us girls could coerce the groom in our broken Spanish to give the sheet to us, which was the case here. I have this one and one for Compendium in the Dallas Turf Handicap.

Anyway... enough boring ya'll. Besides painting murals and painting class, I had an essay to write for English class, poster & logos to create for Computer Illustration class... too much to do in too little time! Calgon take me away!