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Running Blue Horse - DD 2009 by ~calzephyr:iconcalzephyr:

Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Animals

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I took a photograph of this because there was no way I was going to lay it on the scanner! This horse, inspired by Franz Marc's colour theory, is rendered on paper with oil pastels. I haven't used oil pastels for since I was a kid.

I started this drawing this morning for Drawing Day 2009 and I wondered how I was going to finish. I realized I was trying to be too perfect about everything. It was actually nice to be doing something for the sheer joy of mark making. In Marc's colour theory, blue represents maleness, yellow femaleness (mother earth?) and red is heavy and brutal. The only part I don't like is the green lines that extend into the grass. I wish I hadn't made them. I could see redoing this as a full size picture.

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~raptoress Jun 7, 2009, 10:26:30 AM
yes, yES!

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Ljubica Todorovic
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~calzephyr Jun 7, 2009, 5:31:57 PM
:-) I'm suddenly reminded of your craze for pastels back in the day!

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~ghiti Jun 7, 2009, 6:43:24 PM
The green lines are fine I think, kind of looks like the horse is boxed in, which could lend some sort of meaning to the piece :P.

Love the blue horse.

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~raptoress Jun 12, 2009, 12:03:22 PM
yay!

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Ljubica Todorovic
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~calzephyr Jun 17, 2009, 7:39:28 PM
Thanks so much. Now that I think about it, you're right, the lines are OK...I think I would make them orange-red though. You can get a neat vibrating effect with red and orange, so maybe I'll take advantage of that as well!

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