Queen Maria Luisa Spain (2 Viewers)

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Goya painted this lady on horseback which I saw at the Prado museum. I was inspired to do this piece and started off with a suitable face from Historex, and modified a Historex horse. I used a failed metal cast torso and created a dummy. Added boots and started to pose the figure.

Progress has been rapid. The skirts were made from rolled out putty which when almost hardened was carefully folded.

 

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Here is the visual reference to this figure.

 

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The figure has been detailed further.

 

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The figure was given a basic tone of colour. The horse's mane will be worked on next.

 

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Here is the mane WIP.

 

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Here is Maria Luisa being painted.

 

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Here is the horse mane being sculpted.

 

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I added the horse tail, crupper and ears.

 

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Finished the fringe on the saddle.

 

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After some consideration, I decided that the legs of the Queen were too short.

 

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I finally got a good seat on this figure by adding putty to the underside moistened with water and pressed down on the saddle. This gives me a good base to build up the skirt.

 

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It seemed a shame not to work further on this piece I further adjusted the legs inwards to grip the horse saddle. The skirt has to be rebuilt.
I rather like the pose.

 

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Finishing the skirt. I am matching both leg positions

 

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Finished the skirt folds. Added some horse straps. Finished the saddle fringes and added the decorated forelock.

 

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After some cleanup I ptd the skirt black for the nx round of oil painting. Figure looks promising….

 

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I’ve started to paint the figure in oils.

added decorations to the horse headstall and bits.

 

[Grey Heron]

Coming together very well. Thank you for sharing your continued progress of the miniature.

 

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Grey Heron,

thx for yr comments. Hopefully I’ll be able to complete this piece soon. I delayed working on it because I had to add those twisted fly tails to the saddlery. More was added to the rump. I cleaned up the saddle embroidery as well, gave the horse some shoes and sprayed it grey…
Undercoated the horse with first layer of paint.

 

[Grey Heron]

Such beautiful detail. Something that I've noticed with your work. Well done.

 

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Grey Heron.

thx again for yr nice compliment. Minor ptg on the horse.