Step by Step - equine oil painting by Ivetta Harte, STEP 3

STEP 3

At this step I start actually painting with normal (not diluted) oils. I always start from the top and try to find the right sky, the right mood fort he paining. For this one, I wanted to show a lot of fun and a lot of color. As you can see that originally, my sky had much more yellow and emerald colors, but I decided that they are competing with the foreground and decided to sink the sky and the mountains in to the background more with the calmer and darker colors.