By
Dara Daniel
Piece description from the artist
"Wild Heart" is a painting of a white horse gazing directly at the viewer while coming forward. Besides the intense gaze of the horse, inspirational for this piece were the contrasting light and dark shapes defining its form.
To begin this painting, I first drew the horse's shape relative to the negative space around it. Then, I built the form of the horse by applying layers of Acrylic molding paste. I added thick and thin layers of colors to establish shadows and light and create more texture.
My palette for this painting includes lots of white with a tad of mauve for the light and marine green, ivory black, and hints of violet for the shadows. During my process, I allowed accidents and drips. After six or more sessions, the horse and its lively spirit arrived.
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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