My PC is still dead. The silver lining is that it forces me to do more traditional stuff. That’s one of my goals these year too (I’ll write more on my goals later).

However, because the year is already long in tooth, I’m posting my first pics for the year. One of my goals/challenges, whatever you want to call it, is to make two horse portraits per week. I took the first two weeks off for holidays’ sake, so these first ones I made in week 3.

These first ones are off-the-cuff warming up ones:

Crescent & Moonie
A6, Crescent w/c pencils and coloured pencil, Moonie graphite pencil 2B

And there you have it.

Beacause I’m a highly peculiar person, I got terribly excited.

So I picked a rock.

Of which I planned to make 30 studies.

You can pretty much guess what happened.

These are all of the same rock we had to paint last time in the still-life. Different angles, obviously.The large one I did on another session, on purpose, for I had my frustration threshold sufficiently broken. Lord a small thing can be difficult!

On the side I started a white seashell, but that one I’ll show you when we get to the session on which I finished it.