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Day's Endby *edlittle

Traditional Art / Paintings / Landscapes & Scenery

Small oil, about 14" x 20". Having spent most of my school holidays working on a farm, scenes of animals/machines/tools/humans working within a landscape always appeal to me. There is something very beautiful about the ploughhorse image - it combines magnificent strength, the purity of physical animal exertion, it demonstrates a cooperation between animal and man and captures that brief period in history where man, animal and machine were linked. The image is always nostalgic in the sense that those times that have passed are thought to have been somehow better...although I doubt that at the time the farm labourer regarded slogging under the hot sun behind shires that strained their control, required grooming, feeding, mucking out as 'romantic'.

I wanted to create some form of tension in the piece, which I achieved by juxtaposing the plodding pace of the horses against the onrushing, threatening storm.

~slimestone7 Apr 4, 2013

This is beautiful ;-; I'd love to have something like this hanging on my wall!

=Citron--Vert Feb 1, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

I feature your wonderful deviation here [link]

=Ancient-Hoofbeats Oct 21, 2008 Student General Artist

You've been featured in an article called "Rescuing Equestrian Hearts"! [link]

*edlittle Jan 18, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

Thank you!

~walumu Mar 29, 2007

I love it! The colors, the composition, so well done!

~Szelenbaum Mar 1, 2007

beautiful!!!

~ABW Dec 18, 2005

i really like this.

with the ground? did you paint every grass leaf. wait a bit then use dry brush over the top to blend?

if so how long do you wait? a caple of hours. im doing a sim painting. just need help?

*edlittle Jan 4, 2006 Professional Traditional Artist

I put a mixture of color down [oil paint], then went back in with a fan brush, pushing the paint upwards. I use liquin as a medium which helps speed up the drying, so, in this case, I went back immediately with the fan brush. Depending on what effect you want to achieve governs the time you allow the paint to sit. WIth liquin, the paint starts getting more difficult to move around after about 3/4 of an hour. If you have any other questions, please ask!

!NienteMateria Dec 8, 2005 Traditional Artist

That's quite something. Love the atmospheric perspective, warm and tense foreground and more chill and foggy background. Is it oil? water colours?

*edlittle Dec 11, 2005 Professional Traditional Artist

Thank you, as for your question, the painting is oil on canvas.

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