Lucy Kemp-Welch's Promise of Spring Copy

This is a copy of "Promise of Spring", one of Lucy Kemp-Welch's sweet mare & foal compositions. I've always admired her brushwork, and although I feel that I didn't load my brush enough to even come close to her mastery, I did discover that she uses line often within the painting, something that was a little surprising to me. Trying to find a good image that didn't plunge the mare in a black hole of shadow was a challenge; I took liberties with photoshop & pushing more purple/crimson into the darks to find the mare's anatomy. All in all, it was a great exercise, and is currently in the American Artists of Equine Art's online exhibition "Inner Forger - April Fools Show 2023".