Failed Horse Painting

My sister Becca sketched this horse for me so I thought it would be a great chance to do something new while also reviving my landscape painting skills.

 It started out OK but as I reached for my painting knives to give a bit more body to the grasses and things my old instincts took over and before you knew it this painting disappeared under a series of frustrating attempts at abstract paintings.
  

5 paintings later I ended up with this:

This is really different for me but I was thinking of flowers against a stained glass window as an image I could use on sympathy cards in my Zazzle store.