WKoen Sieger ASH aka Dior, head portrait

The cold weather has arrived and so has my recently purchased little electric heater for my little atelier!  I just finished the head portrait of WKoen Sieger ASH, for private collection. This took only a few days to produce allowing for paint to become sticky between sittings to layer colors. To bring out Dior, I played with a less detailed background with a blend of lovely colors including crimson red, yellow ochre and pthalo blue.  He was a lovely horse whose color would go between deep black (winter) and dark mink (summer). The final portrait was based on a photo we took of him just before we went into the show ring at Oxridge (CT, USA), 2014. He was not clipped so had a bit of winter coat! To see the full image please check out my website “jcwflowercreations.com/gallery”.