Yesterday I finished my NaMoPaiMo horse!
I now know three different ways to make the color black without using a single drop of black paint.
Since last year I did Sultanna, I decided that this year I would do Hokey, another of Abby's pasture mates. I went through a lot of photos trying to find clear ones of his white markings.
I didn't want to do a sunburnt Hokey, either. I wanted to do him in his winter-black coat.
This year's challenges were getting the hoof color right (the bottom of his hooves needed to dry so I propped him in the paints) and trying to give depth to his coat. That part was so much fun - I used a watered down midnight blue applied with a fan brush!
I could not get a good photo, but I think his most realistic feature is his right eye. I used four colors on it and despite struggling with the tiny eyeball size, tiny paint brush, poor eyesight (mine, not his), and stiff fingers, I am really happy with that eye. (The other, not as much.)
He is far from perfect, but I wasn't struggling for perfection. I wanted to learn more about painting and I wanted to paint with Pony Pal Mila. (Cowpoke Lukie was an unexpected bonus.)
I achieved those goals, and even better, I completed the challenge.
I did it!
