Finalizing the face

Worked on the face a couple of hours. Now I think I'm almost done with the face. I might come back and put the final touches around the left eye, but otherwise I can't improve it any more.
Also I put more colors/paints on frozen grasses. I don't think I would put more effort on the background any more. Instead, I'll knock down the reddish body and make it more bownish. It doesn't balance well with the face colors.
So this would be the last update of this painting before finishing it.

Blocking in darker part

I haven't updated this for one month but I've been working on slowly. Still blocking in darker shapes but already started showing interesting shapes in the shadow part of the mountains.

Face is not about shapes any more

...but it's about more colors and values. It's about the time I need to commit to each color I mix and boldly put thicker paints with sharp brush work.
That's what I saw American Impressionist Sociery (AIS) show at Howard/Mandville Gallery today.

Putting life into the face

Further putting life into the horse face. Still a little too light value-wise. If I squint a half of the face is supposed to be quite dark. Need further tuning.

Still adjusting shapes

Still adjusting bigger shapes on the face and lighted part. I haven't come up with a way to show the texture/hairs of the horse yet.

First Glacier NP Painting

I started sketching the first painting out of my recent vacation at Glacier NP, MT. As I updated, I painted this scene on site. The composition is very simple; the lake, a part of the front mountain and the pyramid shaped mountain, then blue sky in the morning. I still get goose bumps every time I watch at the reference photos I took.
Looks like the back mountain needs to be a little bigger but otherwise, this is pretty much the bigger shapes.

Getting face shape

Trying to get the face shape correct, which is the sole focal point of this painting. I know the values on the horse have to be much darker. But I'll keep pushing values gradually while getting the shapes correct.