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COMPOSITION STUDIES FOR "DUSTY"
JOHN FARNSWORTH

Here's a brief description of the creative process involved in a commissioned painting:

CEREMONIAL

This image, featured in SouthwestArt Magazine, resulted in a call from a collector, Terry Sognnaes, who wanted to commission a somewhat similar painting.

Following a brief discussion of his interests, approximate size, pricing, etc., I painted the following four watercolor studies, which I then placed on my website for him to preview. (I usually only do three, but I got carried away) I emailed him the url for the page, which was not publicly available.

Dusty Study 1

Dusty Study 2

Dusty Study 3

Dusty Study 4

I also included these:



Peruanos Study 3	Caballos Peruanos

Terry, I include this just to give you an idea how watercolor studies relate to finished oil paintings. This piece was a commissioned portrait, therefore the sketch was tighter and closer to the final rendition, even, than usual. John

Terry liked some things in each of the studies, but was not as interested in white horses. In our subsequent conversations by email, he expressed further interest in aspects of various other paintings he'd seen while browsing my site.