By
Dara Daniel
Piece description from the artist
I layered squares and rectangles of handmade papers with Gesso to the canvas's surface to create a textured, grid-like pattern to begin this painting. Then, once this layer dried, I drew in the bold, foreshortened shape of a horse and kept in mind that my goal was to integrate the horse's form with the pattern I created with the layer of papers. I added my colors and used white highlights to suggest light and deep blues for the shadows while maintaining a visually balanced composition. The contrasting colors and collage of textures helped me to achieve the three-dimensional effect for this statement piece.
The natural world and her love for animals inspire Dara Daniel's Acrylic on canvas, mixed-media paintings. She combines bold colors and shapes and lots of textures to create fun, playful interpretations of horses and other animal spirits.
For all her paintings, she combines all the available elements of design to express rhythms and energy and moods and emotion. Dara explains, "Each painting experience is unique yet, my goal for all my paintings is to capture a degree of nature's passionate spirit, joy, and beauty."
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