Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for June 06, 2013

Horatia gratia Horatia…

This might be the cutest installment of Dark Side yet!

No, it’s only a pigment of your imagination…

It paints me to say this, but this is quite palette-able…..

No, Horace, you didn’t make a mistake… it was just a “happy accident”….

Well better than using oils and gouache, now that would be a real mess!!

…but are you sober?

Art Therapy gone wrong.

@Radish, being a horse especially he should be eating green. I really have no problem combining some watercolor with my gouache, especially in the metallic range.

Maybe origin of Horace isn’t a pencil doodle. ?Isn’t the Alex Ross stuff in gouache? I assumed he was computer generated. Zoom 400X shows mane hairs have more curve than mouse drawn can do.

I had some enamel stick to me for weeks.

FYI: Gouache paint is similar to watercolor but modified to make it opaque. A binding agent, usually gum arabic, is present, just as in watercolor. Gouache differs from watercolor in that the particles are larger, the ratio of pigment to water is much higher, and an additional, inert, white pigment such as chalk is also present. ( Obvoiusly, I had to google it ! )

I see Horace is in his red/orange period just now. . . .