Cows Walking Through Fields - Painting of the Day from the Migraine Action Art Exhibition

Cows Walking Through Fields - Painting of the Day from the Migraine Action Art Exhibition

Painting of a herd of cows - Picture of the day from the Migraine Action Art Exhibition

Painting of a herd of cows - Picture of the day from the Migraine Action Art Exhibition

Painting of Comical Sheep Lying Down - Picture of the Day from the Migraine Action Art Exhibition

Painting of Comical Sheep Lying Down - Picture of the Day from the Migraine Action Art Exhibition

Painting of Cows Lying Down - Picture of the Day from the Migraine Action Art Exhibition

Painting of Cows Lying Down - Picture of the Day from the Migraine Action Art Exhibition

Migraine Action Art Exhibition Painting of the Day: Time for a Nap

Here's a Friday, end-of-the-week, feeling-tired-appropriate painting of the day "Time for a Nap" from the Migraine Action Art Exhibition.

2012 Calendars featuring a range of cow, sheep, horse and landscape paintings now available

2012 Calendars featuring a range of cow, sheep, horse and landscape paintings are now available. The perfect gift for Christmas! :-)

Cow Sheep and Horse Paintings 2012 calendar by mike_jory
Browse Cow Calendars

Continuing with the new painting

Here are the next few stages of the new painting. Added another layer of paint to the center and right hand cow, the latter has also had its head enlarged from before

The pic below shows some texture added to the sky and grass, more definition on the cows, the right hand bovine head being enlarged a little more and some hills and trees indicated in the background.

In the 3rd photo, the sky has been blended and some clouds added. This was accomplished with interactive acrylic: The paint was applied and kept moist by spraying with water to allow the blue sky to be readily blended. Once fully dry the clouds were painted on and immediately sprayed with water and allowed to run a little to give a wispy effect. All three bulls have had their horns added and become more defined and some splashes of blue have been included on the right hand animal.

Finished Painting of cows lying down on Dartmoor

Here's a quick photo of the finished painting, I'll post more soon on the iridescent effects due to the use of interference acrylic. In the meantime I need to think of a title, any suggestions welcome!

Step 2: Cows lying down on Dartmoor

The plan with this work is to alternate layers of acrylic with layers of interference color. In this photo you can see that the cows have now been over-painted with interference blue as has the sky and distant hills. The moorland in the mid and foreground has been painted with interference copper & violet, respectively. Although it appears that most of the previous layer has been obliterated there is actually a mixture of areas where only the metallic colour shows and areas where some of the under painting is showing through
As the painting progresses the intention is to make the layers of interference color progressively more transparent...but we'll see how it goes!