A Horse is a Horse of Course of Course
I think I'll file this blog under the already full category of 'Things I Paint Not Because I Want To Paint Them But I Have No Choice But To Paint Them Because I Paint Archival Scenes', henceforth to be referred to by the handy acronym: TIPNBIWTPTBIHNCBTPTBIPAS. That's because this blog is all about horses. That's right...horses. There are a few things I truly don't want to paint simply because I feel it's very 'typical' subject matter that seeming legions of artists have previously painted before me. Tiger faces and large flowers are two of these. Horses too, flirt dangerously close to that sort of banal, overdone subject that no artist need ever paint again. If someone were to ask me "Dave, do you do paintings of horses?" I'm sure my hackles would immediately go up and I'd issue a dismissive scoff, "Pshaw, NO!!" And yet I have painted horses. Many of them, it turns out. But the horses I paint, I've learned t...