Today I've started to block in the horse. My palette for this piece is burnt sienna, yellow ochre, cadmium yellow, burnt umber, naples yellow, ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson, windsor violet and titanium white alkyd. I like to use the white alkyd because it speeds up the drying time of everything it is mixed with so allows me to work on a piece again within a day or so as opposed to a week. As a rule I don't tend to use other alkyds as I don't like the sticky nature of the medium but I feel I just about get away with the white!
At this stage the painting looks a bit scrappy and uneven and can sometimes leave me wondering what I'm doing but over the years I've learnt to suppress the panic! It's not until the next couple of coats that I will start to blend the rich chestnuts, browns and blues together which will make for a more convincing painting.
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