Winter War Horse
by Daniel Eskridge
Title
Winter War Horse
Artist
Daniel Eskridge
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Painting
Description
In a cold wintery landscape, somewhere in the wilderness of the American Wild West, a powerful warrior horse stands atop a snow covered hill looking across a valley to where smoke rises in the distance over thick fir trees. Dark clouds fill the overcast sky, and the winds of winter blow harsh through the painted appaloosa's dark mane and tail.
From the artist: I created this in December of 2021. The weather in Atlanta, however, was not at all wintery and was warm enough to go outside in short sleeves. I guess I missed the cold a bit, and it put me in a mood to create some real winter scenes.
Also, for this work I had some fun an created an animated version for which I created an NFT ( https://bit.ly/3sU2Wn4 ).
A guide to the meanings behind the markings:
Lines on its face represent victories in battle.
For keen senses, it has the sun painted around its eye and circles around its nostrils.
The blue circles are hail to rain down upon enemies.
The arrow on its neck is a sign of victory.
The handprint on it hindquarters means it has accomplished a mission.
A symbol for a snake is on its hind leg, and above that, blue horses for captured mounts.
A cross on its flank is for escaping an ambush.
Thanks for looking!
Daniel Eskridge
P.S.
Follow me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheArtOfDanielEskridge
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January 3rd, 2022
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Comments (22)
Nikolyn McDonald
Majestic and the tones are stunning. Congratulations on your selection for a Best of Best special feature in the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery Group.
M Spadecaller
Outstanding work of art. Congratulations on your Best of the Best feature in the WFS group.
Gary F Richards
Congratulations on your beautiful moving BEST OF THE BEST OF WFS FINE ARTISTS Feature! F/L
Linda D Lester
Congratulations in your "Best of the Best" in Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery Group. I really enjoyed looking at your work. Very nice!
Randy Rosenberger
Dear Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery Group Member, You are to be congratulated on your achievement of getting your beautiful piece of artwork chosen to be featured in our āBest of the Bestā section of our homepage. This is truly an honor to be selected for this special feature. If your works are featured, it is always an honor, but this honor is above and beyond what one sees most of the time. It is excellently done and presented and deserves a special place on our homepage. Happy sales to you till we meet again.
Andrew Wilson
Congrats on this wonderful image being chosen for an Outstanding Home Page Share Feature!
Taphath Foose
CONGRATULATIONS!!! This fantastic work has exemplified outstanding skill and composition and therefore has been selected to be showcased on the Your Best Work Homepage as an Outstanding Homepage Share Feature!! š
Taphath Foose
Fantastic work, Daniel!!! Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Your Best Work"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! And a congratulations as your gorgeous work was also specially chosen as an āAdministrator's Finestā and shared in the Your Best Work group thread!! š
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