Morning ride [HQ] (Patreon)

Some of you watched the streaming of the first half of this painting’s process. Streaming is a weird thing, I think. In a way, it is like a painting demonstration, in which the painter tries to do in two or three hours what usually takes eight or nine (usually divided in smaller sessions, done on different days). It is a tour de force, much like the challenge of an alla prima (finishing a painting in one sit), and the results are a bit different than the usual process. Richard Schmid (one of my spiritual masters when it comes to painting. If you don’t know him, Google him!) said once that even bold brush strokes on the canvas are only apparently bold. They too must be calculated with care, and slowly rendered. I can’t help but to think that painting is a slow process, slower than most people would be willing to accept nowadays, an old language that comes from pre-industrial times. It’s not like music when it comes to speed, there’s no such thing as virtuosity. All this to say that I spent some extra hours with our centaur girl before posting her morning ride, which made my mind wonder and ask: “how do centaurs sleep?”, “how flexible is that spine where human and horse meet anyway?”, and other silly questions =^____^=

This is our first anthro futa month, isn't it? It is! During March, April and May we'll have anthro futa paintings coming our way! Yay! We also had a poll in which centaurs won as our favorite mythical anthro, so I thought "why not combine both?" This seemed to be a nice way to introduce this new theme to our gallery. I have another centaur painting in the oven, a horse anthro (she was the winner as our favorite anthro futa type, wasn't she?), and also... Well... I won't give you any more spoilers. #wink #wink #staytuned

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Q.