The New Year

Well here we are in the new year and to start things off I'm actually posting a new piece that I did in the middle of 2016. It's a commission for a friend of my family of her daughter and her horse, the only thing about it was that it took me a few years to get to it. It wasn't because I was overly busy, it was more along the lines of increasing my skills a bit. I look at being an artist (as well as many other things in life) kind of the same way you would a video game. I wanted my skills to advance a few more levels before I started on this and to do that I spent a good bit of last year stepping out of my comfort zone to try a variety of new mediums and it really helped to boost my levels. Everyone knows that the more you do something the more experienced you get, but at the same time the same approach and the same thinking becomes rigid and stagnant over time limiting what you can achieve, but by doing other projects (which will be uploaded before too long) I was able to expand my thinking and broaden my approach to each project which made me approach this commission with a new perspective. See for yourself.

It's been a few years since I had done a portrait and I'm glad I was able to do this one for them and they were very happy to have it. As for my next portrait I'm thinking of transitioning to color, but haven't decided on what medium yet.

Keeping with tradition, here's a preview of another commission that I'm working on, this one for a friends wood working business and it's also a new medium and approach. Very plain looking in the preview but it's coming to life rather nicely.

The new year is off to a good start, hope that it will prove to be a great one for everyone.

~Patrick