Bighorn Ram...

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Took about an hour end of day, but
here it is now finished. I think, for
myself anyway...for the better. Though
I caught enough sense of it in the
initial start...
















5"x 7" oil

Finished my elk earlier today, and with
left over paint...my practice is to scrape
it over to one side and mix it well...the
result being a neutral, or perhaps a mud.
Often though...a lovely mud at that!

I like to use rather than waste this mud
to start or initiate the next painting,
and having just about fifteen minutes, I
made a few marks with the charcoal vine
stick...and quickly blocked in masses. The
background is totally fictitious.

The immediate look of the work as is in
so short an order of time, is that it
reminds me of the wildlife art of Bob
Kuhn...though, he was a master. Once I
finish it, likely tomorrow...I doubt that
it will look Kuhn'ish any longer...but its
fun to capture at this point a sense of it!