Portrait in pen and ink of a trotting Arabian thoroughbred stallion.
An Arabian horse is often a smaller horse, with large expressive eyes and nose and a small dip in the nose line. Intelligent, praised for its toughness and speed.
For showing these horses, the mane is often shaved a bit and the eyes and nose made more expressive with a little oil.
If a horse really wants to impress it will look like it is floating in the air, with lots of knee action in the legs, and the tail raised high like a flag.
Drawn in a classic way with pen and ink, I emphasize the muscles, the sinew of the legs, the expression of the head, the horse looks simultaneously happy, defiant, proud and playful.
My name is Annemarie ten Hacken born in Breda, 1956. Living in 's-Hertogenbosch.
All my life I have been drawing and painting animals: dogs, horses, birds, but also cats and wild animals, regularly children and people. I draw and paint realistic, figurative and from the..
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