Flying Horse Acrylic Print

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The horse is said to fly so lightly through the night sky that, when it accidentally steps on the back of a swallow in midflight, the undisturbed bird looks over her shoulder to see what has touched her.

This is my pastel interpretation of the famous figurine of the Flying Horse of Kansu, which I did shortly after attending the exhibition of archeological finds of the People's Republic of China, when it was on tour in Washington, DC, in 1975. I drew the horse on a black desk blotter, using a poster photo from the exhibition as a model.

My original drawing was done in the blue and white colors of the figurine's current patina, but through the magic of digital manipulation, I can present a unique image of it here in bronze tones, much as the horse may have appeared when it was first cast in the days of the Han Dynasty.

Use coupon code SBNMFD thru October 31, 2013 for 15% off artist markup!!! Back home in Florida ten years now, after 30-plus years in a VA suburb of Washington, DC, I retired in 2002 after working for the federal government as a report editor also doing desktop publishing and graphic design. I have always loved all kinds of art, beginning when I was three with fingerpaint, which I found so much less restrictive than coloring books. I was a shutterbug as a child, with my Brownie box camera but, since getting my first digital camera, have been shooting anything and everything and digitally manipulating the images, often with surprising results. Sometimes, instead of modifying a photograph, I start from scratch, resulting in some of my...