Longhorns in the Pasture

Longhorns in the Pasture
Oil over acrylic with pastel, 16x12

These longhorns are just down the road from me, and they beg me to paint them each time I pass by!  Finally, I have painted them today. With this painting, I am working on loosening up my brushwork.  Especially when I work with animals and people - I tighten up those strokes to follow each and every curve.  So, in a real effort to be more impressionistic, I have painted this with broad strokes.  It is fun and liberating to treat this is such a manner!  I guess my resolve to do a figure a day only lasted one day!  This is painting number 170 in as many days :)