Painting Horses In Acrylics Help!!

[schley]

Hi All

can anyone point me in the direction of a thread or any other article which deals with painting horses in Acrylics! I am trying to learn the technique of how to paint in the individual horse hairs as done by Diego Ruina on his mounted Pegaso Atilla.

Thanks in Advance



John Schley

 

[megroot]

John,
I think you gonna ask the master himself how he did it.
But believe me, there are many roads to Rome, and remember Rome is not build at one day. I would say, alot of practicing will be very helpfull.

Marc

 

[Major_Goose]

Dear friend , painting individual hair on a horse and especially on a 90 mm , is a task that will need much patience and time. You will need tohave the paint dilluted in the right thickness and perform many many patient and planned tiny brushstrokes , following the direction of hair as it would go to a real horse.

Watching carefully the finished work of masters like Diego or others will definately help, but you will sure need much practising to get a result similiar to theirs. There is no easy way out !!

Good luck my friend

 

[schley]

Painting Horses Help

Guys many thanks for the advice I am all for patience and as for tiny brush strokes I am more than willing to give it a go! If either of you can help me in contacting Mr Ruina I would appreciate it!

 

[Bluesking]

John,

I konw you will conquer it. I tried it on one of 120mm horses and found consistency was the problem - I ended up painting over it again. But .....

 

[SVJ]

I've done it very subtly on a piece I did last year. Though it was unfortunately a rather quick job for a deadline so I did not have time to do exactly how I thought in the first place.

I'd probably go about doing the general lights first and then start applying individual hairs with the lighter mixes on top of the darker. I'd use a small brush for this task with little paint on the brush, and thin consistency of paint. It's probably a good idea not only to use only the already painted colour of fur but to play with the tonality a bit, even add stray hairs in different colours, to give the texture even more life. When done adding hairs on one area I'd use thin glazes to blend the hairs into the general fur and if needed reapply some individual hair. There will probably be need for doing the glazing/reapplying move several times on some places. I'd also use a wet palette to make sure I can keep the colours I need open for as long as possible as it will be quite a staggering task.

Take note as well what race of horse you are doing so that you don't make the hairs too long. And as mentioned earlier study real horses to get a feel for in which direction the hairs run. I often find it good to study expert drawing of things I will paint as artists tend overemphasize things a bit, making certain aspects of it clearer.

Hope anything helps.