To wish you were someone else

Finished painting this last night, took the picture this morning so I could use sunlight to show the gold paint. Fire is 'hwa', horse is 'ma-a'. The cardinal direction associated with the horse is south, 'wu', also summer and midday. Ergo the file name for the picture, "Summer_Hwa_Maa". From Fire we get heart, enthusiasm and creativity. Auspicious colours: red, gold, yellow and blue (but not green or orange). Flowers: sunflower and jasmine. I chose cherry blossoms because they are the iconic flower most often used to adorn zodiac animals. I considered a flame mane and tail but that didn't fit with the ribbon dance esthetic I was trying to convey. I used a ComfyUI autopastiche image that happened to look just about right for a Year of the Horse pony. The legs had really elongated "forearms" and "cannons", probably influenced by My Little Pony proportions, so I reworked that with the help of several of my photographs. I also shortened the neck length and redrew the head three times while trying to keep the ballet pose. As for the gold body, there are gold coloured horses, achieved by crossing a pearl dilution coat colour with a chestnut coat colour. The pearl dilution mutation arose in Spanish horses. I have a set of metallic glitter watercolour paints. Unless the light hits the paint just right, the glitter does not show on my sketch pad paper, but on my paper napkins, where I wipe my brush the gold is VERY showy and nice. 9_9 I used my "Artist Collection" Bambi medallion as a guide to remind me of what gold is supposed to look like. I used three shade of gold. Then the darkest shade of gold became the brightest shade in the sunlight.



Not my picture. Paco MARTI / Yeguada Paco MARTI on Facebook seems to be the entity that takes all the pictures of Pearl Dilution chestnut coat colour horses.