Christmas Day Hunting with OCH
This painting background is constructed in a series of light transparent matte washes. The figures are painted in opaque oil with medium giving them a slight gloss. When viewed from an angle, even in dim light, one can see the Master and hounds as if they were walking off the canvas. This painting hangs in the sitting room at The Ashby Inn in Paris, VA.
I set out to paint a warm Christmas Day hunt scene with hint of tired but hopeful green grass and blue sky behind the winter tree line. The background is an under wash drawing in transparent oil that dried to a matte finish. I had planned to cover with opaque paint but found that the transparent wash color was impossible to duplicate in opaque. With the background matte and transparent and the figures opaque and semi glossy, there is an unexpected depth created. Even after looking at this painting for a year I can not decide which I would prefer. I will one day paint another canvas just to know which I like better. It is always a learning process.
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Mallard Ducks
Langollen
Brahman Bull in Pink and Green
Banbury Cross Polo, I
Banbury Cross Polo, II
Christmas Hound
Jockeys at Oatlands Plantation Spring Races
Upperville Family Class, I
Flying Hunt Coat Field Hunter Championships
Huntsman from the Forrest Shadows
Zohar Ben Dov on a grey hunter with Orange County Hounds
OCH Cubbing with Charlie Matheson, I
OCH Cubbing with Charlie Matheson II
Working Forward, a huntsman on the ridge
Full Cry Hounds
Golden Field Hunter
Blue Ridge Hunt Thanksgiving Meet with Graham Buston
Gone to Ground, OCH Thanksgiving Day
National Sporting Library Polo, I
Blue Ridge Hunt Races, II
The Sun Bathers, dressage horses resting in water and light
First Field Orange Country Hounds
Holsteiner Stallion Portrait, R-Flash-Gordon
Nancy Dillon hunting with Piedmont Fox Hounds, Liz Callar reference photo
Portrait of a Foxhunter in Piedmont Cubbing Season reference photo by Liz Callar
Pony Home the Fieldhunter
Portrait of a Conformation Hunter
Stallion Gesture Pose I, Summer Shadows
Artist Self Portrait Riding Marvelous Marvin
High Season Polo
Grey Stallion in Winter Sunset
OCH Outrider, III
Stallion Gesture II, Captain America
Stallion Gesture Pose IV, Captain America
Stallion Gesture Pose V, Flashinator
Setting Sun on Marvelous Marvin
Four in Hand, WEG 2010
South on Trappe, I
South on Trappe, II
Portrait of Charlie Matheson, OCH
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