Signed Moose today

Almost finished. Tomorrow I deliver it to the barn ...wet. Hmmmm, I will put it in a box with a note: wet!!!!

Hope it helps her heal from losing a dear love -her horse named Moose. I was going to draw two (another as him with his unicorn horn), but the rolling action shot took longer than I thought.

Here is the pic I used so you can compare and see what I did:  

I see I need to make the lower left boot of the staight leg shorter -take a bit off the bottom. That will finally get that hoof looking right. 

The other hind leg is off, but I can't figure out what's wrong yet. Maybe the hoof part needs to be bigger with more brown and less white accents. 

What do you think of the background? 

Can you tell I love horses?  

Started Moose

This is the beginning of an oil painting of my friend's beloved horse, Moose.  

Today, I also sketched on an envelope while waiting for the ferry.  

 Pretty good for kids screaming in the back and only two pens in the car.

This is after I worked on it again the next day. I hope to make the horse subtle, soft and layers of more n more oil to the paint. I hope to make the background more complimentry somehow. Softer, lighter, smoother, happier. The original picture has him surrounded by fencing. Maybe I can make an impressionistic field behind him.  

Added some color to cover up and hopefully make him look less flat. I'm attempting to make the background less flat as well.