Horse In Motion

What's this? Another post so close to the last? Loose brush strokes painted on to textured card in an attempt to give an impression of the horse in motion. Need to draw more horses to ever improve on getting their anatomy right!

Dolphins, Bubbles, And Sea

A few months back on a holiday to Tenerife I had the opportunity to go on a boat trip and (possibly) see some dolphins and whales. Sadly we did not see whales, but we did see quite a few dolphins - and one turtle! - which was a great experience, anyway, to actually see them 'in the wild'. We even got quite a few showy jumps from them. So I was inspired to create a dolphin picture. I made a rough biro doodle in my Sudoku book (as you can see from the picture below with the grid marks showing through) and decided I should colour it. I started painting it, yet found that I had virtually no blue, so it was more greeny and didn't quite work out. Next, I created a pastel version, which only half worked (and again not enough blue...), so I cut the dolphins out and placed them on blue card and added some sea/spacey swirls. My final version was scanned and digitally coloured, retaining the original marks. Here you are just seeing my pastel and digital versions. I might do a larger dolphin piece at some point, but happy enough with these for now.

Didn't photograph too well, but you get the idea:

The best of a lot of attempted photographs of these fast-moving animals as proof.