Prince is one of sseveral gray band stallions in the HMA at Sand Wash Basin. He tends to favor deep red chestnut mares and has some beautiful rosy roan offspring in the photos of his harem.
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Band Stallion Prince
copyright (c) 2010 LindaLMartin
8 by 10 acrylic on Canvas board
$265.00
Photo Refrence Credit to George Roosevelt |
The other Sand Wash Gray stallions are difficult to tell apart at a distance. Prince, besides his star quality, has a bit of pink around his nose and muzzle. Quite often, from the photos, Picasso's band is nearby and they tend to migrate around the horse mmanagement area(HMA) keeping their distance and their mare's separate. Prince like so many of the band stallions has bites and scars from his many battles for mares. The day this photo was taken Prince was chasing off a bachelor stallion trying to make off with one of his mares. Jimmy Darksand, the bachelor stallion that I named last year was the horse trying to circumvent Prince's domain and steal a mare for himself.
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Thanks to George Roosevelt for the use of the refrence photography for this painting
I like the feel and movement of this piece. You can sense how this horse is lunging forward with each step. Great job Linda!
ReplyDeleteThank you So much Sheri, This was a bit challenging because Prince was running away from the light source and the image was taken at a distance. And He was lunging .. he was lunging after JimmyDarksand.( The Sand Wash horse I named) Jimmy is one of the preliminary horses I painted before the project started. He is a Sandwash Basin Bachelor Stallion who is looking to start his own herd. He spent a lot of days trying to steal mares from Prince. This past season he was unsuccessful. Perhaps next year Jimmy will get his first mare.
ReplyDeleteGreat, keep the faces and text coming.
ReplyDeleteThanks Gabriele. Im so glad you are enjoying these. =0)
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