Post by horseguy on Nov 4, 2015 19:08:33 GMT
This is a quote and picture from the November 4, 2015 edition of the Pennsylvania Equestrian newspaper. "As an artist, a tiny thought wiggled into Krajewski’s (the horse's owner) mind. “It was in the back of my head, just wondering what would happen if I could get him to hold a paintbrush,” said Krajewski about Metro. After working on it for five days, just ten minutes each day, Metro learned to hold a paintbrush in his mouth and both his and Krajewski’s lives changed. “After learning to hold a brush, the rest is easy,” said Krajewski. “I pick the colors and load the brush for him, he will take it in his mouth and make four or five loose, abstract strokes of his own, and then we will repeat.”
It takes between three and four days to complete a painting as Krajewski and Metro use one color at a time, letting each layer dry before the next is applied. “He has no edge control, so he will smear the colors together and make mud if we don’t do blue one day and orange the next,” explained Krajewski. “Metro has these broken strokes that vibrate against each other and create a neat effect. Humans can’t make these types of strokes; we are too inside our own heads. He paints simply because he likes to paint.”
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It takes between three and four days to complete a painting as Krajewski and Metro use one color at a time, letting each layer dry before the next is applied. “He has no edge control, so he will smear the colors together and make mud if we don’t do blue one day and orange the next,” explained Krajewski. “Metro has these broken strokes that vibrate against each other and create a neat effect. Humans can’t make these types of strokes; we are too inside our own heads. He paints simply because he likes to paint.”
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