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home isn’t really moving, there’s a kind of energy, a movement, in the painting. That’s what I try to find.

AG: How important in the drawing (a nketch Forbunh Marti< with) before beginning the painting ?

8F: It is important, particularly on something you’re doing for someone else. If I can get the drawing right away, then I don't have as much trouble having to correct it later. But if I’m not doing a commission, I don’t have to be quite as correct.

The eye, especially, is voy important Tm a red eye person. Having been a model, I know that the essence of the subject is in the eye. If I can get the eye right, then the planting ainws alhv. It's a little difficult, ibr instance, if the owner of a deceased pet has sent a picture; that is too tiny to see the eye, then I have to go to books to get the eye right

AG: Do you have any advice for aapinng hone artuttH?

8F: Tb know the sulijcct matter, to study horse conformation, take as many pictures as you can, to be around horses as much as you can, and to start drawing horses.

It’s not difficult to draw horses. Draw and draw and chaw. Carry your little pod around, and eveiywhere you go, just do quick sketches. (lot to a horse show and draw a quick movement, a hisses topline entering the nng, rear of a him*, continually drawing, expression, ears, everything

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