Horse art is usually created as an exercise in drawing, either from imagination or from life. Though the use of a live horse is often preferred to a dead one, the results may not be acceptable in a competitive setting. The horse must be posed according to grooming standards and facing directly forward, with all four feet on the ground.
The horse itself should not be overly made up, but should be in costume if appropriate to the discipline being portrayed. For example, a western horse should have cowboy gear and a fox hunter should have hunting gear.
The artist must also dress appropriately for both themselves and their surroundings. No bare midriffs or flip-flops are allowed while portraying a dressage horse; however, denim jeans and work boots would be considered appropriate attire at an English horse show.
A Horse’s Portrait: A blog showing a horse’s portrait.
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A Horse’s Portrait: A blog showing a horse’s portrait.
It is a blog that displays a horse’s portrait. It was started in 2010 and was designed to show people a horse’s appearance by describing the appearance of his face, color, body, hooves and so on. The artist of this blog is a Canadian girl named Tanja. She begins with an idea to paint a portrait of all the horses she has seen in her life and continues with a plan to draw about 10 horses every month for the rest of her life. As you can see from her work, she is doing very well and has drawn many horses since 2010.
A Horse’s Portrait is an online collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures of horses. I am a freelance artist based in Manchester, England, working in traditional and digital media.
I have been commissioned by many organisations including The National Trust, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), British Horse Society (BHS), The British Equestrian Federation (BEF), The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Authority and more.
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Horses are beautiful animals. The more we look at them, the more we find in their faces.
This blog is about portraits of horses. We are looking for photographs of horses’ heads and faces, in detail or in context. We hope to show how much there is in a horse’s face, and how many different ways there are to look at a horse. A horse’s portrait can be a photograph or a drawing, it can be realistic or abstract, but the essential thing is that it should approach the complexity of a horse’s actual face.
This blog is an experiment. We hope you will enjoy it and contribute to it.”
On this blog, you will find a large collection of paintings of horses. You can see the process of how the artist created them. The artist shows his or her progress in making the painting and how it has changed.
The purpose of this blog is to help others learn about art and to improve their own art. The artist wants to make this blog available to others so they have a place where they can get help. Anyone can ask questions on the blog, and the artist will answer as soon as he can. The artist will also share his knowledge and experience in creating art on this blog.
The creator of this blog hopes that people looking for horse portraits will find it useful for their projects and needs.
The greater the level of detail you want to show, the more time it takes to do it. Leonardo da Vinci spent most of his life painting the Mona Lisa, and for that one painting alone he used a total of 320 square feet (30 m2) of canvas. Other artists who spent their entire lives painting only one thing would have been Rembrandt with his series on The Night Watch, and Albrecht Dürer with his Adoration of the Magi.
Tranquil moments
If you want to get an impression of how long paintings can take, look at a series of paintings by George Stubbs. He painted three versions of a horse from life in a span of 26 years – from 1756 to 1782. The first version was for him just a sketch to see if he could capture the pose and movement properly. He was so pleased with it that he gave it away as a gift when he sold his first horse. And this is the version which is now the best known one, since it ended up hanging in Manchester Art Gallery:
The second version, painted from life again but over eight months later in 1766, is already almost twice as big as the first one:
The final version is painted between 1777
