Painting the horses muscles

Today I continued to work on the left side of the painting. The angels head need to dry before I can continue working on it. So I decided to spend some time working on improving the drawing of the foot of one of the women. My initial drawing was too approximate and out of proportions. Some shadows and highlight will be added to create volume. This can only be added once today's work is dry, meaning in 4 to 5 days..

I also worked on bringing volume to the horse's muscles, and and some brilliance from sweat.

Finally I painted the horse bards. I improvised some kind of nest textile, with bright highlights. Again, shadows will be added once dry. I think the original painting shows a panther skin rather than textile. Since I don't have a high resolution picture of Rubens' painting I will leave it like that for now.

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This is all I did for that day. I just add an overall view showing the current stage.
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