Western Art by Denny Karchner – pencil illustrations, oil and acrylic paintings and prints

This painting is traditional oils on Ampersand Gessobord Masonite. The finished size is 16″ x 16″.

Here is version one. On day one, I laid down a base coat for Christina’s Stetson, face, scarf, hair and leather collar.

This is day two. I have added more detail to her face and laid down my base coat for her wool coat and hands.

Day three. I finished detailing her upper body. I also added the leather trim on the top of her chaps and the decorative leather trim with the Conchos on the front of her jeans.

Day four. I spent the entire day roughing in the back of her saddle, saddle blanket and the horse’s rear.

Day five. Here I have laid in the base coat for her beautiful, weathered chaps.

Day six. I finished detailing her chaps and the back of her saddle. I was able to lay in the base coat for the front of her saddle.

Day seven. Here I laid in the horse’s neck, mane, reins and the front of the saddle blanket.

Here is the final! I painted in the background color and signed it.

Here are three close-ups of my final version to show all the detail.

Thanks for riding along. Stay tuned, there are many more of my works in progress to come.

Denny

This painting is traditional oils on Ampersand Gessobord Masonite.

Signed/numbered prints available. Edition of 150.

Original is available. $3,800

Measures: 16″ x 16″

This painting is traditional oils on Ampersand Gessobord Masonite. The finished size is 16″ x 16″.

Here is version one. On day one, I laid down a base coat for Jay’s face.

This is day two. I have added some detail to his face and laid down my base coat for Jay’s leather bonnet straps, neck and the top of his cloth necklace that holds a feathered pendent that is just out of the picture.

Day three. Here I added the cloth that is wrapped around his long hair braids. I also roughed in the feather cluster on his left shoulder.

Day four. I spent the entire day roughing in all the feathers in his bonnet and more detail to his face.

This is the final version. I finished detailing out his bonnet feathers, painted in the off-white background and lastly, I signed it.

Here are two close-ups of my final version to show all the detail.

Thanks for riding along. Stay tuned, there are many more of my works in progress to come.

Denny