“Shades Of Gray#3″
casein on paper
9 x 12″
Even though the day started a bit gray, the sun came out and Spring called to me as I worked in my studio, saying “Come and play…the winter was cold and deep, but now it is time to come out and enjoy the warmth of spring and promises of things to come.” I listened but kept painting, finishing this one casein of a gray/white dressage horse for my “Shades of Gray” series. This is number 3….there are more to come…all playing with the discovery of colors in a gray horse brought out by the light and shadows. This painting as already been put up onto my website……… Now I am headed out for a bit to rake leaves from winter weary gardens while, the pups play.
©Copyright 2009 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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“The Spanish Walk” casein 12×9″
I grew up in Italy…..vacationed as a child in Spain and Portugal. Europe was a wonderful place for a child to grow up in, to explore and to meet people with different backgrounds, interests and life experiences.� Today from the comfort of my studio I am doing the same…as I meet new Facebook friends from all over the world. One of these new friends is Jordi from Spain…with all the wonderful PRE horses that he rides. This latest casein painting is of Jordi on one of the horses. I look at the wonderful landscape with the� purple mountains of Spain in the background,a lake behind the sand of the riding ring and the strength and power of a wonderful horse. I dream of going back….back to Portugal…back to Spain….and most of all back to Italy that I called home!
But for now….back to the easel and life here in Maine with my own horses….and the dogs who want walking!! A long cry from the “Spanish Walk”!!
p.s. Jordi works for a travel agency…..want to go to Spain!!!???
©Copyright 2009 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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“They Stand, They Wait-Acadia” casein on paper 9 x 12″
Please join me at Åarhus Gallery for an opening reception Friday March 5th, 5-8pm for the second annual ‘44N 69W: Radius Belfast’. An all encompassing show running from March 4th through the 28th, featuring work by Maine artists. All artworks, celebrating this vast creative community, will be on view and for sale with 20% of proceeds going to food banks within a thirty-mile radius of Belfast. Last year over one hundred and fifty pieces of art were exhibited to the delight of hundreds of visitors, with consequent sales enabling a generous donation to the Good Shepard Food Bank. This year I am exhibiting a painting depicting carriage horses up at Acadia National Park, Maine’s crown jewel! We have spent many wonderful hours driving the carriage roads of Acadia ourselves. I will never tire of painting horses at Acadia! I am honored to be part of this great endeavor! 
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“Aiming For The Target” watercolor on paper 13 x 18″
This watercolor was finished this week, along with this small casein on board of the Jack Russell Terrier and her favourite outside toy, that is a bit chewed up and raggedy. I will have these two new paintings on my website,
“Play With Me” casein on board 5 x 5″
The past week , for the most part, has been sunny and warm.What a joy! The snow is melting and even though it is February I am thinking of my gardens and what needs to be moved, transplanted and pruned!
Speaking about moving……..I am moving my studio out of my loft and into our walkout basement room that will afford me more room to work in, and direct access to the outside and gardens. I am thinking that this summer, I will be able to take my easel out and paint in the back patio near my arbor and gardens! I will miss my window on our world on the farm…my studio window where I can see all the fields, the barn and our horses. But the trade off will be I will be able to actually stand up anywhere in the new studio!!!… and can step back and look at a painting I am working on with out having to worry about falling down the spiral staircase! I am excited!
New studio…..New paintings!! 
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“Aiming For The Target” watercolor on paper 13 x 18″
I am a bit slow this year on planning my goals, having waffled a bit about ‘where I want to go ” with my life and my artwork. But I think I am on target now with shows lined up and deadlines to meet, illustrations to be done and commissions accepted. And I still have time for fun original work! I am on target!
Which brings me to the latest work I am finishing up. Pictured above. “Aiming For The Target” is almost done..a work in progress at this point. It is a watercolor on paper on board and is sized at 13 x 18″. When it is finished I will be putting it up onto my website . I have enjoyed doing two works depicting the high energy sport of mounted shooting! I am looking forward to getting some more reference shots this summer when they are having events in Maine that I can go to.
My internet is acting up yet again this morning….very disconcerting. So I can cutting this post short and going on to endeavors that are easier on the brain! Walking the dogs! 
©Copyright 2009 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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Consider this a postcard invitation to the online art show held by “Women Artists Of The West” …of which I am one! I feel very privileged to be a juried member of this National group of artists…even if I don’t live in the West , but in the woods of East Coast New England! With two paintings of mine in the show…..I am ‘hanging’ with a great bunch of women artists!
The past few days have been sunny and brisk around the farm, very wintry! But today dawned sunny and warmer! With temps up in the mid 30″s, way above freezing, I hiked out into the fields with the dogs and then on our way back I stopped at the barn and brushed two of our horses, old Dom and Duster our perennial 4 year old who is actually 24! My gloves and hat ..and face ..were covered with horse hair. Nell , our JRT had a grand time chasing hair clumps as they rolled around the paddock. She jumped with joy! I think I need to paint that scene!
I am working on an watercolor now of a Maine girl and her horse as they do mounted shooting. That is a equine discipline that is full of action and noise! and I am doing this while waiting for some casein paintings to dry. I am not content with only working on one painting at a time, and have to jump from painting to painting to keep my muse amused…..
Guess I have the attention span of a Parson Jack Russell Terrier!! 
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“Pony In Cart” casein on canvas 24 x 48″
Mind you, I am not complaining. I am just stating a fact. It is cold out. But this is winter and this is Maine, so I guess I am stuck with it. I stay cloistered in my studio, the sun shining into the room, but I can hear the wind howling outside.
Today I finished the above casein on canvas of “Pony”….the pony perfect. Lynn, the lady driving him, sits in a lovely antique governess cart at a recent Maine Carriage Day event held at Skyline Farm in North Yarmouth, Maine. If I painted everyday, all day for the rest of my life, I would still have scenes I want to to portray, paintings that need to be painted, all about driving horses. A passion for me…horses and driving.
“Pony In Cart” is available to grace someone’s walls………..
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“Shades Of Gray #2″ casein on paper- 9 x 12″
This morning while the bitter cold January winds howl outside my studio, I painted, and still in my pj’s, have just finished the above casein on paper. This is one more done for my series titled “Shades Of Gray”…..a series where I will explore the color, light and shadows in gray or white horses. In the past few years I have done a similar foray into the colors I see in the black horse…now the gray will be the subject of this ‘experiment”! I am putting it up on my website.
The new online art show with “Women Artists of the West” titled ” It’’s An Artist’s Life” is now on line and I have two still life works ‘hanging’ in it. I am very proud to be part of this great group of female artists who are from all over the U.S.of A. …not just the West as their name states. Please take a stop into this virtual show and enjoy. Sorry I can’t offer you a glass of wine!
Guess I better get dressed and bundle up to walk the dogs. Out into the cold! 
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Sweet Adeline resident Corgi on her way to the farm and chores.
Life at Cob Cottage doesn’t always just mean sitting in a warm sunny studio and creating works of art. This January it has ALSO meant treks to the barn through knee high snow and shoveling …shoveling….shoveling! That is the hard part of having a small farm tucked in the Maine woods. But on the bight side..there is a lovely changing landscape that we are blessed with, …360 degrees of nature’s beauty… God’s gift to us to enjoy each day….between shoveling and trekking!
JRT on the hunt.
Our dogs are small, so they need paths, to and from, to get their business done each day. Addie is very happy for these paths, like mazes running through our orchard and gardens…all provided by Les . The man snow blows them paths hither and yon. Spoiled pups! Nell our resident JRT spends the majority of her ‘walkies’ time looking for voles and varmint under the snow. She jumps and leaps through the white, then dives to depths with only her tail showing! Then after she has hunted her fill, she heads for the bedroom to sleep among the pillows…where she is sure I will not find her!
What dog? I don’t see a dog?
Down in the barn four horses depend on us for their food and comfortable…no lack of that there! But even there, in the paddocks and run-out-sheds, there is more shoveling and snow blowing to do with each snow storm. Not to mention the daily shoveling of 4 stalls!
There is no lack of subject matter at Cob Cottage to feed my creative muse
Now it is time to get back to the studio and the next painting!
©Copyright 2009 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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Les straightening the pole-skirting.
The weekend flew by so fast as we flew back and both between Morrill and Augusta each day for the Equine Art Show at the Civic Center. I was so happy to have been included in this art show and for the chance to reconnect with old friends and clients…all the horse folks of Maine!! And I was so good… and did not spend any money on horse stuff…though I did lust over a few trailers there that would hold a pair of driving horses AND our carriage!!! I say that laughing because I need a bigger studio before I get a bigger trailer!!!
Today I finally got back into the tiny studio and to work on the driving painting that I am doing…24 x 48″ with casein. As snow fell over our farm, I stay cozy in the studio making headway on this small pony on a big canvas. There will be more to come…but this is where we are this afternoon.
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I say first because I plan on doing more in between my usual watercolor and casein work. These horses and their driving party were up at Acadia enjoying the miles of carriage driving roads there….I have portrayed them before in several casein works..how I love the white team put to the black and red brake. And the seemed to be enjoying themselves too! The horses and their passengers!
I will be putting this up on my website too….more works to come! But now…….time to walk the dogs! Nell is ‘terrier-izing’ poor Addie…I hear them wrestling in the living room….time for a walk! 
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‘Head Study, Acadia ‘ 10.5 x 7 ” Giclee Reproduction
I have two giclee prints available on my website and this year of 2010, the price is going up on them, as I am running out of these fine art print reproductions. They are sold in a package and are signed and numbered, printed on archival watercolor paper,ready to be matted and framed. The above giclee was done in a Limited Edition of 120. Shipping in the USA is $12.00. Inquire about shipping outside the USA.
“Head Study/ Acadia ” and “Lady In Waiting” have proven to be very collectible and grace the walls of horse lovers world wide!
This week a bit of my time will be taken in preparation for the Augusta Invitational Art Show Jan. 16th and 17th at the Augusta Civic Center. Hope to see you there! It’s all about the HORSE!
And then there is the same, old same old, of walking the dogs, mucking stalls and dealing with Maine’s lovely winter. And I am doing it all, thinking about spring. Riding come spring and hopefully driving too! Come spring!!
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I have been having a problem when working on large canvases and keeping my hand steady …so wanted a mahl stick to work with. I explained what I wanted..showed my husband the stick in an art catalogue I have… and voila! The man made me two! One a 30″ stick for my bigger easel works and a smaller 15″ one for works that I can actually do on my drawing board. I don’t know how I worked before without them! I do know I dragged my hand through wet paint a lot! Not good! I photographed the sticks so you can see what he made!What a clever man!
Today I am getting paintings together for the art show in Augusta next weekend at the Northeast Horseman’s Conference and Trade Show Invitational Art Show. I have been invited to exhibit my work along with 4 other Maine equine artists, January 16th and 17th, 2010 in Augusta, Maine . My work exhibited will mainly comprise my casein work. I am excited to see what the other artist have been doing! One of my painting will be “I Can Do It My Self”, shown below a smaller casein on paper. Hope to see you there!
“I Can Do It Myself” 9 x 12″ casein
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This is where this casein painting is at mid-day of day two. I will now let it sit and dry before I go back into it with more color. I usually do my casein paintings on a colored ground and leave a bit of that colored ground show here and there in a painting. I feel it give it a depth.
So now this afternoon, I am working on an oil….started with casein and am now painting over the dried casein under-painting. This is a carriage driving scene too, but with 4 white horses…not one little cute Welsh pony!
Back into the paint!
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Outside our cottage, standing almost as tall as our house, is a crab apple tree that pleases us all year long… with spring blossoms, summer shade and fall crab apples. In the winter it also pleases the birds who flock to our feeders and the boughs of this tree with its rotten fruit that sustains them through the cold long winters in Maine. Today our resident Ruffed Grouse flew up into the branches to feed his fill of the fruit…and the buds, on the tree. My husband has named him ‘Buddy”. Buddy has taken to following Les around our property and has also taken up housekeeping on the edge of our lawn amongst the woods and brush. Today Buddy lit on a branch above me and I had my camera in hand…and finally he posed as I snapped away. It so brings to mind the song “A Partridge In A Pear Tree”!! I find it so amusing that this bird has adopted Les, so to speak…! Les and his ‘Buddy”!!
After last night’s blanket of snow, the dogs were so happy to get out and play, wrestle and run. I had the privilege of shoveling while they played.
But I did get some time to actually get into the paint and have almost finished a casein I am working on of two Blue Tick pups. Back to painting now before it is time to walk the dogs again and then batten down the hatches for the next snow storm predicted for tomorrow! Gotta love Maine winters! Actually…I think I really do love them!
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We woke up to a morning white with new fallen snow.Not a lot. Just enough to make the world outside our cottage white, bright and fluffy. The dogs love rolling in it…the horses love running in it and kicking up their heels. Even my old Tennessee Walker, Dom, [ COMING 30!] enjoyed it for a bit. But now the winds have kicked up and the temps have plummeted with a wind-chill factor that makes being outside uncomfortable. The horses need more hay!
One of my life’s passions is my flower gardens. They keep growing on me. Each spring I say no more plants! and then I go by a greenhouse….and before I know it new perennials have found their way into my truck and then need to be planted. I swear this is going to be the year that I DO NOT get new plants.
Under the new blanket of snow sit my gardens…..and they all take care, transplanting, dividing and pruning. Will I never learn??!!!
This is a photo of my “Harry”..[ a Harry Lander's Bush ]…and I love him and his gnarly branches….and when he is draped with snow he is so lovely!
While I am thinking about it : I have been working on my website and have a few new casein works on it now. Tell me what you think.
And now I need to get dressed up in my layers of winter clothes and walk the dogs, and feed the horses. Just getting dressed these winter days is a chore in it’s self….never mind the horses, dogs, gardens, painting, paperwork, house care, cooking….on and on………..
©Copyright 2009 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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I love Maine!
This photo was taken down the road from us. I have seen the folks at this certain old farm cleaning out their big beautiful red barn ,throwing ’stuff” into a big dumpster to be thrown away. Maybe the house has been sold. Maybe the farm is going to be sold…..I am sure there is a story there. But the neatest part is that they have also created a huge bomb fire pile in the middle of their snow covered field….and surrounding the pile to be burnt, is a selection of chairs, front row center….the best seats in the house!! I can just image enjoying the excitement of the huge fire, sitting in one of those seats, a glass of wine in hand….maybe on Christmas eve?…..or New Years Eve?? Oh what fun! And then at the end of the burn picking up your chair and throwing it onto the heap…leaving only the ashes in the snow of the past…sort of like clearing way for the new year! Hurrah!
I have been in the throws of the Christmas rush….wrapping [still doing that] baking [more to be done tonight] and the arduous chore of shopping and trying to find everyone that special something. And through it all finishing up a couple of portraits that must be ready for Christmas giving. But I wouldn’t want it any other way. There are some exciting happenings in the New Year for me and my art work. I will elaborate on it later………..But for now, from me and all of us at Cob Cottage,
May you have a Very Merry Christmas. and please stop for a moment remember the real meaning of this Holiday…the birth of a child, who became our Christ.
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“Carry A Big Whip” casein 20 x 16″ copyright 2009 Kathi Peters
Each day I try to do some artwork. I am usually able to work without any distractions [other than normal daily distractions of dogs, horses, and husband! ] But of late, the days have had a myriad of minor and major distractions. I know it must be a sign of the holidays that are upon us….baking, shopping, partying ….making lists! It all takes its toll. Any day spent away from the studio feels like time lost for me…as if I lost that one time when I was going to really do my best work yet! ….That one painting that would have that WOW factor!! A day wasted! I wonder how many other artists have that same burn….that same push each day to create and to maybe actually do that best work ever? It is always about the next painting!
My latest painting is pictured above, a hunt scene…and what captured my interest was the whip and the movement of the horse…..”Carry A Big Whip ” is a 20 x 16″ casein on board. It will be available on my website if you want to see a larger image.
Tomorrow is another day where obligations will take me away from the studio. What if tomorrow was going to be the day that I would be painting my masterpeice….and I wasn’t there working on it! How will I ever know?!!!
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I love Maine! 
