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Age 3This is the earliest recognizable picture of a horse I have. I was about three years and two months old. |
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Age 4A real favorite of mine, this picture began a whole series of completely carefree drawings of happy horses and riders, complete with reins coming from the horse's eyes and an elaborate setting. Another picture at about the same time showed horse and rider in a corral, and I had written on it that it was for my brother Joe with love. I love these drawings because I was unafraid to do all of the things that I later feared. I'm always trying to get back to this point. |
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Age 4At this age I also was enraptured with all kinds of mythical equines, which I liked to roll into one, like this unicorn pegasus. |
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Age 6This is the first indication of insecurity in my drawing. I must have gotten good feedback about my work because I was surely starting to take it more seriously. I also like this drawing because in it I have used my saddle formula. I remember whipping out tons of saddles with this one line method, before I started taking a closer look at them. I also hadn't yet started paying attention to what colors horses actually are, something I would again try to unlearn later. |
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Age 7Right about this time I spent many hours at the fence that divided my family's yard from our neighbors' horse pasture. I began to see structural characteristics that horses had in common, and I developed more formulas. I noticed the eye cavity, the nasal bone, the cheekbones, musculature on the neck and hindquarters, and that there were bumps in the horse's legs, although I hadn't figured out quite where yet. |
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Age 8These observations went far quickly. In a short period of time I had refined these characteristics, and my legs were starting to look a bit better. |
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