Miniature Horse in Progress-”By the Lake”

Hi all! Well, I finally got started actually painting  this one. I actually finished it last night, so I’ll just post all of the pictures of it now. 

I started with the background and completely finished that first. I wanted it to be fairly light, so it went quickly. I started with some gesso and went over the whole sky and then I mixed in a little curelean blue. After that, I was going to just do a field in the background, but then I thought some water would be nice, likea  a nice blue lake with the mountains reflecting. So I added the water next, the same way I did the sky. Then came the mountains with some paynes grey and a little purple, making sure to add the reflection below with it a tad watered down.  Then I added a little snow with some titanium white.  Next I put in the shore line with a small liner brush and some titanium white, along with the rest of the ripples in the water. Then I underpainted the foreground where the horse is standing. Hmmm, not the color I should have chose, but oh well, I can change that,,, and of course, I did (-:

Miniature horse Aceo underpainting 2

Alright, now for the next underpainting of the horse: