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Aug
20
Gracie Knows!
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Yes, I am stealing titles from Ben Folds again. There’s just something about our Miss Gracie - it is like she just knows. She’s a little tired of the compromised paddock situation at the moment, however - just a few more days, Gracie, and you and Billy can get at the grass!
I know I seem to have done a few winter scenes this summer - it’s purely coincidental, not because of this summer we’ve been having in Southern Ontario! To be fair, it hasn’t really been that cool (until the past few nights!) but we’ve sure had an awful lot of rain!
This painting is 10 x 8 oil on Raphael linen panel, done with a very simple limited palette of Burnt Sienna, Ultramarine Blue and Titanium White. My goal with this one was to keep it loose and simple, so I hope I achieved that. I’ll catch up with a couple more recently completed pieces soon, including last week’s landscape challenge entry. Figures, just when I get caught up, another week shows up! Ah well….
©Copyright 2008 by Linda Shantz. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Linda Shantz’s website.
Aug
20
Black Morgan, Part 4
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Today was sort of a “two steps backward and one step forward” day for this piece.
It was the third Wednesday of the month, which meant it was the regular day for the Colored Pencil Circle at the Carriage Factory Gallery.
That meant it was time to pull out this black Morgan mare and put in another hour. As a reminder, this is a colored pencil on black Rising Stonehenge paper.
To begin with, I used a Prismacolor Clear blender to blend the greens because I thought they were competing a little bit too much with the horse. That smoothed and blurred some of the sharper edges and was supposed to create a smoother color layer. That part didn’t work and I discovered the blender was so old it was starting to dry out.
After I was finished with the blender, I used Limepeel applied in close horizontal strokes to further smooth out the color fields in both the trees and the grass. That was followed with Yellow Chartreuse applied in vertical strokes over all of the greens.
I did use a little bit of Dark Umber and Dark Green, as well, but the greens are too dark, so I want to continue to focus on lightening those areas more.
The little bit of work I did on the horse revolved around the head and the tail, both of which I lightened with Cloud Blue in the cool areas and Yellow Ochre in the warm areas.
I will probably need to bring the painting home and work on it from the reference photo on my computer so that I can enlarge it enough to see details. Hopefully that will happen before the next Colored Pencil circle, but with my schedule looking the way it currently looks, that may be more than I can manage.
It is somewhat frustrating to work on the same piece month after month and for only an hour at a time. It does seem to be a process that works, though. Each time I take out the painting for the next work session, it looks better than I expected it to.
I fully expect to take it out one of these months and realize it’s done!
©Copyright 2008 by Carrie Lewis. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Carrie Lewis’s website.
Aug
20
Talk About Wildlife
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This is not a very good photo………but a Blue Heron had taken a perch on our back arbor right outside of our living room sliding glass doors last week. I was getting ready to head out for Belfast when something caught my eye and I turned to see this huge bird sitting there. Mind you usually the arbor is the perch of the hummingbirds that we have living near our deck. This fellow [?] is a bit bigger than the hummers!!! He stayed there quite a while and I did get the chance to capture some better shots of him that I will use for future paintings. This shot also captures my bougainvillea in blossom.It is so in your face with color right now.
Between the bird photos……the deer in our yard and my huge goldfish in our garden pond……..I will be doing some works other than horses this winter……when time allows.
©Copyright 2008 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Kathi Peters’s website.
Aug
19
Art Horse Magazine
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Oops. Did I ever forget something BIG!!! There is a feature article about my work in Art Horse Magazine’s Summer 2008 issue. It was very exciting to see my work published in this beautiful magazine, that is a must for all equine enthusiasts. You can purchase a copy…or better yet….get a subscription at www.arthorsemagazine.com
©Copyright 2008 by Juliet Harrison. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Juliet Harrison’s website.
Aug
19
More Happenings
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Time to keep everyone up to date.
I have been having lots of fun with my new digital camera. I went to Saratoga to the racetrack for a weekend this summer. What a wonderful place to take my cameras. I met my friend Linda Shantz (equine painter from Canada) up there and we had a blast.
There are still a few more weeks to see my work there at Terry Lindsay’s Equidae Gallery in the Holiday Inn. The show closes after Labor Day.
A few weeks after I was up there, I went to the HITS showground in Saugerties. NY and photographed the Parade of Breeds and Grand Prix jumping. As you can see, it was a miserably rainy day. But I still had fun.
These color images and more can be seen at www.julietharrisonphotography.smugmug.com They are available for use as reference photos for artists and as inkjet prints. Not to worry. I did bring my B&W film and got some great shots. I just haven’t been in the darkroom printing them yet.
Upcoming stuff…….
Next fall I have been invited to participate in a 2-person show of equine art at the Silo Gallery at the Hunt Hill Farm Trust in New Milford, CT. This will be a great chance for me to showcase more than 20 pieces of my new work. I will keep everyone posted as that comes closer. Until the next post….have a wonderful end of summer!
©Copyright 2008 by Juliet Harrison. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Juliet Harrison’s website.
Aug
18
I’m very pleased to announce that my watercolor painting, ‘Cowboys delight’ has been accepted into the New Jersey Equine Art Association’s ‘Art of the horse’ exhibit, September 14 ~October 25, 2008. To be held at the Somerset Art Association 2020 Burnt Mills Rd., Bedminster, N.J. Reception is open to all and is held September 14, 2-4 pm.
This is another one of those hard to get into Exhibits. I’m feeling very fortunate to have three works going to three different shows this fall.
Deb
http://www.debfloodart.com
©Copyright 2008 by Debbie Flood. See original post here.
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Aug
18
Summer shoots
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Well, the revolving door has whizzed around a few more times, leaving me feeling a bit spinny in the head and wondering where the week (the summer, the year to date!!) has gone. It continues hot and sticky, making everyday functioning a tad challenging, although I know there are a lot of parts of this continent that would be glad to have our summer weather–both in the areas where they aren’t getting enough summer, and those that have too much.
We’ve gone into hot and dry classic prairie mode here, and the fields and crops are all ripening almost visibly as you watch. No more nice yellow canola fields. They’ve dulled right down as they head into their next stage before harvest. I’m not enough of a field person that I can even tell which ones *are* canola any more now that they’re not bright yellow. And it has been years, perhaps decades, since I’ve seen endless miles of golden wheat in the fall as used to be the norm when I was younger. Not a lot of wheat being grown in this area at any rate.
I’ve done a fair few photo outings this past week, starting Monday with a visit to the local zoo with grandson Mark to check out what was happening. We saw the “new” bears that are recent arrivals, two young (as in teenage if they were human, I’d guess) grizzlies in a new display area that has just opened. One of them was making the best of his situation when we were there, interacting with the environment and generally seeming pretty relaxed. The other one, sadly, doesn’t appear to be adjusting well and spent its time pacing in repetitive patterns that I fear don’t bode well for its mental health.
I appreciate the chance to photograph animals like these and the other zoo species, but on the other hand if I let myself think about it at all I find zoos quite depressing and sad places to visit, for a variety of reasons. One “good” thing about the camera is it lets you focus (literally and figuratively) with a different mindset, and is definitely a tool that removes the photographer emotionally from the situation they are photographing. Works that way for me, anyway. This isn’t always a good thing, but it does help in these circumstances. And yes, I do realize that most zoos do the best they can for their animals and are in some cases the main hope for the survival of some species.
I decided this would be a good week to work on my sunset collection, so made a couple of trips out to the country in pursuit of good skies. One of the forays took me past the site of one of my favourite horse herds from last summer, who I hadn’t yet seen this year in their pasture. I was greatly heartened to see them back again when I went by on one of my sunset excursions, so I’ll be going to and from Ebon the long way from now on when I ride in the evenings in hopes of getting some shots of this herd.
An unlooked for but very welcome addition to the sunset shots were some moonrise shots I got the same evening. I was heading south from Ebon to the horse herd road when I glanced to the east and was astonished at the huge pinkish moon just rising beyond the inland terminal buildings by the train tracks. It was enormous and virtually full. Moonrise and moon shots are another on-going fascination for me, and I got some good ones that night. You have to be in the right spot at the right time for these, as with my lens and the fact that I shoot hand-held only (no tripod or long exposures), they are pretty hard shots to capture. Another small victory for my photography this past week has been going manual, where I am setting the parameters for the shots, rather than going with having my very smart camera set the exposure etc for me. It’s taken me a long time to get to this point, but it really paid off with some of the sunset shots where I was able to optimize the images in a way I couldn’t achieve in the past. I’m basically a person with a good eye and art training who doesn’t know the mechanics of photography, so it’s an on-going learning process, and it’s nice to feel that I’m actually making some small progress in my understanding. Well, in truth I don’t *understand* it as such, but I know (sometimes) what to do to get the results I want, which is really all I care about.
No horse events on the week-end, unusually, to be made up for by two happening simultaneously next weekend at different stables. I had a booked shoot at Ebon on Saturday morning that was quite entertaining, with one of the young women riders wanting shots of herself in her graduation dress with her horse. We had planned to do this at the actual time of her graduation (from high school) in June, but the time got away from us then. We beat the worst of the heat and got a bunch of nice shots of the pair of them. I was going to feature one of them here but I have my limit plus I’m having technical problems, so I think I’ll quit while I’m ahead on this one!
Shots (not in the order I had planned, but since the system refused to load them at all the first two times I tried, I’m not going to be fussy about this for fear of it going rogue on me again) are of the big moon rising (no Photoshopping of the moon’s size here!!), sunset over the trees out in the country, the “well adjusted” young grizzly making a quick exit from his pool, and a field of canola taken a few weeks ago when it was in bloom. I love the total minimalism of this kind of landscape shot. That’s pretty flat, even for around here!
Re. technical problems–this is my first blog post from the new computer system, which considering how totally at sea I was a couple of weeks ago represents a major triumph for me. I’m still really struggling to make sense of things (mostly Bridge and iPhoto for downloads and photo organizing) and there’s a discouraging amount of things I still don’t even know how to look up, never mind actually execute, but I am making progress.
Ha!! Decided to give the shot of Kat and her boy a try and I got it to load as well. Maybe by next time I’ll be able to put them in the order I want. Or not.
©Copyright 2008 by Judy Wood. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Judy Wood’s website.
Aug
18
Dog days of summer, Canine Portraits.
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BAYER 6 x 8 Oil on Canvas
KASEY 6 x 8 Oil on Canvas
BRADY 6 x 8 Oil on Canvas
On Thursday the 14th of August, I rendered these 3 oils on canvas. They are each 6 x 8 and are dogs from the Humane Society of Knox County in Thomaston, Maine. I have painted these three for an online exhibit coming up through the Canine Art Guild: Helping Paws, Making tails wag., To bring awareness of the shelters during October’s Shelter month. Proceeds from sales during this exhibit is to be donated to the Shelter of the Artists choice.
Please check out this exhibit in October and make a purchase of some great art and have a donation help a great shelter!
Deb
http://www.debfloodart.com
©Copyright 2008 by Debbie Flood. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Debbie Flood’s website.
Aug
18
Here is Past to Present.
There will always be a gap between generations. This is normal and healthy.
Past & present shows how much trust, respect, confidence, understanding and strength can be achieved by bridging generations.
I loved drawing this piece.
Many reasons spring to mind (new territory, new subject, new challenge, new approach…)
However, the main reason has to be (symbolism aside) rendering three totally different textures: hair, cotton and skin.
I used a 2B, 5B (for the dark jeans) and F (for skin). The T-shirt I will admit was rendered by blending 2B which I then layered with F to get the smoothed crushed feeling. The paper used was Mellotex a very thick smooth white paper.
I’m glad I found the TLC this piece needed last week.
Now: it’s back to gorgeous 4 legged subjects.
Cheers for now
©Copyright 2008 by Sheona Hamilton Grant. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Sheona Hamilton Grant’s website.
Aug
18
Character Gallery: A Call for Entries
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I am considering a new painting project. A series of “up close and personal head studies” featuring equine characters.
Thirty years of doing horse portraits of all types have engendered a fascination with the equine face.
The fascination has gradually led to a desire to paint some of those horses that their owners might not otherwise consider as portrait material.
I am not looking for bright and beautiful, unless the equine character in your barn is also bright and beautiful.
This portrait of a working cow pony at rest is a sample of what I am looking for in possible subjects.
Possible subjects could also be the old codger that patiently gives kids rides when he would rather be snoozing in the shade after a lifetime of service.
That horse or pony with a face that only a mother (and the loving owner) could love.
That special expression that bespeaks mischief or slyness.
The portraits will be primarily small format paintings (no smaller than 4×6 and no larger than 14×14), but there will also be ACEO portraits and larger portraits as well.
If you have or know of a horse you think would be perfect for this project, please contact me. I cannot guarantee that every horse will be painted, but I I would love to correspond with you or take a look at your photographs.
©Copyright 2008 by Carrie Lewis. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Carrie Lewis’s website.
Aug
17
August 23rd I will be in DeBeque, Colorado, Wild Horse Days, as a vendor. If you are in the area on Saturday, please come by and say Hi!!! I have never been at this venue before but have heard nothing but wonderful things about it. This venue is a fundraiser to help the wild mustangs that are in the area. Please come by and enjoy the festivities that they will be providing. I will have original paintings, prints, and notecards for sale there and look forward to the nice weather and wonderful people.
The Horse Gift Mural Mosaic, Le Cadeau du Cheval, will be unveiled at Spruce Meadows on September 3rd! Only a few more weeks and we will see what the entire mural looks like. There is a teaser of the horse’s face on the Spruce Meadows site.
©Copyright 2008 by Sue E. Kroll. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Sue E. Kroll’s website.
Aug
17
Paintings From Kentucky
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©Copyright 2008 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Kathi Peters’s website.
Aug
15
Cheerio, Run!
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Cheerio, Run!
oil on canvas, 48 x 24 in.
I had a great time photographing Cheerio running around in the springtime, chasing her tennis ball, and this painting was the result. An English Shepherd in full stride, her glossy coat flying in the wind–it describes my dog so perfectly. I had planned to send this painting to a gallery, but I just couldn’t do it–it fit so perfectly on the bedroom wall, right above where Cheerio’s crate sits. This one is a keeper.
Quick update on the kitten: Status: Adopted! Yay! We’re back to a reasonable number of pets in the house.
I’m on vacation this week, and it’s been a week of getting outside, getting the horse exercised, the dog exercised, and the kid exercised. We’ve been bicycling, hiking, and I’ve been riding! The bugs are not that bad here this August, so I’ve been out on the trail. We even fit in a trip to Six Flags, where I am proud to say that I rode a rollercoaster three times! Okay, so it wasn’t the Superman coaster, or the Batman coaster, or even the Mind Eraser. It was Catwoman’s Whip, which is pretty comparable to the Goofy’s Barnstormer kid-coaster at Disneyworld. But I loved it! It was just enough of a thrill to me! My son, on the other hand, at eight years old, was just tall enough to ride all the big coasters and seems to enjoy being twisted and turned and plunged and flung upside down at very high speeds. I’m glad he doesn’t have my stomach! It’s a lucky thing that my husband is willing to ride with him on these things, because if I rode one, they would be carrying my body out on a stretcher, after I had a heart attack!
I have managed to fit in some painting time, and my latest project on the easel is an ambitious one. It’s a 30 x 40 in. vertical canvas divided into a grid of 80 3×5 in. rectangles. In each rectangle is a horse’s head, viewed pretty much head-on, but there is some variation to the angles and expressions of the horses. The horses are all individual personalities, but the concept behind this grid is to show the spectrum of horse colors, starting at the bottom with the blacks and dark bays, and as it goes up, there will be lighter bays and liver chestnuts and light chestnuts, buckskins, palominos and greys. It’s unusual for me to work a canvas from one end to the other–I’m usually painting all over the whole thing–but this is a very different sort of a painting, and so far, I have almost 30 heads painted. The image below was shot with a digital camera with indoor lighting conditions, and shows a portion of the heads. I think after all the heads are in there, I’m going to want to go back into some of them and tighten up a few details, but for now, I’m painting the heads fairly quickly. There aren’t a lot of layers of color on each horse–each one is painted within about a half hour. I solicited pictures of my friends’ horses, and fellow equine artist’s horses, and dug deep into my own photo bank, and I’m hoping that the result will be that everyone that sees this painting will see “their” horse somewhere in there. At least a horse that looks somewhat like their horse. It may take me the rest of this year to finish this, but it’s well underway.
©Copyright 2008 by Alecia Underhill. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Alecia Underhill’s website.
Aug
14
Landscape Study #19 2008
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Landscape Study #19 2008, completed August 13, 2008.
This painting is all about space.
The space between the large tree in the foreground and the tree in the middle ground; the space between the middle ground tree and the trees in the background; and, finally the space between those trees and the sky.
That final space is less obvious than the others. It is, for the most part, assumed in most landscape art. The sky is always understood to be a long way off.
The idea of painting distance (or space) is not a new one among artists. It’s not even new to me. Most of my Flint Hills landscapes, large and small, are more about capturing the sense of space that is so prevalent among those hills through the use of value, color, overlap and other composition tools.
Landscape Study #19 2008 uses overlap primarily, but also value and color. I am especially happy with the trees along the horizon. They were painted in after the other two trees were painted. Generally, I work from the background forward, but with this one, I put in the major elements, then added the background.
Landscape Study #19 2008
3-1/2 x 2-1/2
Original Oil on gessoed archival mat board
$25 unframed plus shipping
I also finished the 4×6 small format painting I’ve been working on. I even signed it so it’s officially finished. I had hoped to photograph it today, but was awakened by thunder and the sound of rain, so unless the skies clear before the end of the day, the photography will have to wait.
One new small format painting (5×7) and one new ACEO landscape were started yesterday. I also worked on an ACEO landscape that is about half done (one of the eight in progress). My goal for the year is 52 ACEO landscapes. That works out to one per week.
That’s not a bad goal, even if I have fallen way behind! Here’s to challenge!
©Copyright 2008 by Carrie Lewis. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Carrie Lewis’s website.
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