Category Archives: ACEO/ATC

ACEO Horse Painting in Colored Pencil, Step 4

ACEO Lockkeeper Portrait 3-1/2″ by 2-1/2″ Rising Stonehenge Drawing Paper, White In this session, I continued work with Verithin pencils, building as smooth and even a color layer as possible throughout the horse. The texture and softness of Rising Stonehenge … Continue reading

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ACEO Horse Painting in Colored Pencil, Step 3

ACEO Lockkeeper Portrait 3-1/2″ by 2-1/2″ Rising Stonehenge Drawing Paper, White Work began with a few final layers of color on the background. I used many of the same colors used in previous sessions, but in the softer, thicker leaded … Continue reading

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ACEO Horse Painting in Colored Pencil, Step 2

ACEO Lockkeeper Portrait 3-1/2″ by 2-1/2 Rising Stonehenge Drawing Paper, White Once the under painting was complete, I started adding colors. I am still using the Prismacolor Verithins in an effort to fill up as many of the paper “holes” … Continue reading

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ACEO Horse Painting in Colored Pencil, Step 1

ACEO Lockkeeper Portrait 3-1/2″ by 2-1/2″ Rising Stonehenge Drawing Paper, White This post begins a new project, an ACEO sized portrait in colored pencil. Some of you will recognize this project, which was first published in 2008. Because most of … Continue reading

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Horse ACEOs For Sale

Impulsion 3-1/2″ by 2-1/2″ Original oil on gessoed mat board $25 December specials continue with a look at two of my favorite ACEO horse paintings. Impulsion (above) began as a miniature study for what I intended to create as a … Continue reading

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ACEO Oil Sketches for Sale

White Horse Head in Moonlight 3-1/2″ by 2-1/2″ Original oil on gessoed mat board $15 Every now and again, I get out the oils and ‘doodle’ images just for fun. Such doodles can be part of the process of working … Continue reading

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Lockkeeper Studies for Sale

Lockkeeper in Colored Pencil 16″ by 20″ Original Colored Pencil on Stonehenge Paper $900 Sometimes, a painting comes together without difficulty. It is, as I’ve told many people, as though I simply hold the brush or pencil and artwork ‘just … Continue reading

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New ACEO Horse Paintings

There are four new ACEO horse paintings to announce: three oils and one colored pencil. ACEO Horse Painting 2010-003 – Hock Study Lockkeeper is shown above and features a detail study of the flexed hock in the portrait of Lockkeeper. … Continue reading

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