Holiday Monday

 

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6x8" original watercolour on 3/4" panel with sides painted to match.

This determined racehorse is charging into the week after a relaxing Holiday Monday. : )

STEADY

 

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5x7" original watercolour painting on paper in an acid-free 8x10"mat.

One-of-a-kind and hand-painted.

 

I've been painting, and teaching, animals in watercolour lately. It's easy to shy away from horses because they're so challenging. But, I'm trying to step up to the plate and capture thier beautiful eyes and distictive shape. Enjoyed painting this immensely! I hope you enjoy it too.

Cinnamon Take the Lead!

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$100 - 8x10" watercolour painting

Watercolour offers everything I need to show the movement (and the splatter!) of horse racing. I love letting the paint blend together, especially from one horse to the next, just as they do at the races. And the jockey's clothes (silks) offer lots of colour choices. Check out the original drawing below.

grazing the day away

$60 - 5x7"original watercolour painting with 8x10"mat

This beauty is spending Sunday afternoon grazing the day away. 

dappled grey

$60 - original 5x7" watercolour painting with 8x10"mat

Grey horses can be born any colour (!) and then their coat lightens as they mature. In fact, they usually end up being white horses. Cool! Of course, this dappled beauty will be grey forever. : )

Star

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$60 - 5x7" original watercolour with 8x10"mat

This little friend was a pleasure to paint. It's a good life being a horse... and being an artist! 

a reason to be proud

$60 - 5x7"original watercolour painting with 8x10"mat, ready to pop into a frame!

There's lots of anticipation for this beauty to arrive at the distant waiting crowd.

; )

And here's the initial drawing, before I added watercolour. : )

prairie ride

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$60 - 5x7" original watercolour painting with 8x10"acid-free mat. : )

This painting symbolizes freedom, depicted through a rider galloping across the open prairies. 

Horse Anatomy

Thanks to my two favourite animal drawing books, I've got my horse anatomy figured out. It's been a few weeks of hard work, filling sketchbooks with horse drawings while studying bones and muscles and thinking about how they move. I'm now confident I've got a handle on it. So, moving onto horse paintings. : )

horse gestures

Having a blast with pencil, drawing these horse gestures! I spent some time reviewing horse anatomy, from one of my favourite animal drawing books by Jack Hamm called "How to Draw Animals". Then, with the help of free images from pixabay, I drew as many as I could, as fast as I could. : )

Teaching and Horses

The lovely talented artists in the Self-Portrait Drawing Class I'm teaching did wonderful on Thursday night!

And... today I did a little 'horse homework'. 

gotta run

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I was recently nominated to post '3 paintings a day for 5 days' on facebook. The challenge intended to flood fb with photos of art. It made me revisit some old paintings. So, being inspired by them, I thought I'd do some more horse race paintings. Please feel free to friend me on facebook!

$60 - 5x7"painting with 8x10"mat.

if wishes were horses

I am the Featured Artist at the Daily Paintworks News Blog this week! The interview questions really helped me think about my art, where I am and where I want to go.

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back on track

A friend of mine at Trafalgar asked me to sit at their Italy Tour promotional booth and be a  "Venetian painter", like on the streets in Italy. It was so fun! A few people came right up and said hello but mostly they just peeked over my shoulder. 

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Zebaydo takes the lead

Keeping it loose while making the horses a little more solid.

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Bay

More horses.  More splatter.

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Hold Your Horses

Any excuse to use a messy line and a lot of splatter!

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