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"Interwoven" Oil On Copper Done

September 3rd, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters
“Interwoven” oil on copper 10 x 10″

This oil painting is done,and signed and ready to frame. My vegetables in my garden are climbing up our arbor and clinging to the grape vines …..probably not a good thing….but it does make for some interesting images……How could I not paint this part of our life here at Cob Cottage.

The weather has been very warm for us the last few days…a stretch of sunny humid and depressive heat. The animals and I are looking forward to fall weather with colors and brisk sunny days! Bring it on!

©Copyright 2010 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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Horses and Deer, JRT and Camera

August 31st, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters
Our fawn…..who eats with our horses in their pasture.We are surrounded by deer. They are taking over Cob Cottage Farm,eating my gardens and grazing with the horse quite comfortable with the arrangement. Me??? Not so much! I have been playing with my new camera trying to learn what buttons do what….all so I don’t make a complete fool of myself when we are in Kentucky where I will be taking oodles of shots for reference for future paintings. Where else but in horse-country USA!! Lexington,KY. I am sure our farm-sitters will love seeing the deer around the farm. Something special to keep the New Yorkers amused!!

Nellie and her new chewy bone.

So I HAVE been reading and reading the manual on the camera and I must admit I am easily confused… Nellie has been helping my studies. As you see above. I am hoping that I can capture some action shots…something that I could capture before with my old digital. I am not even taking my 35 mm camera…..too heavy and too much film to develop when we get back!

My new camera is Fuji 12 mp and has a 18x zoom……this should help!

What has been “perking” in the studio???? Two new oils on copper,but I have to admit that I have not been in the studio much of late. Too busy chasing deer out of my gardens and orchards! The below oil is one of the two, almost done……and will be one of the paintings headed to Skyline Farm for their 5th annual Fall Art Exhibit, which opens next month. I will tell more about this as we get closer to the opening reception.
WIP of my Concord grapes and squash vines – oil on copper 10 x 10″I have to run …deer in the orchard…..horses in the fields… and dogs in my face… saying it is their dinner time!!!

©Copyright 2010 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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Cowboys and Winter Squash – It’s Good To Dream

August 24th, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters
Casein on canvas-Work In Progress- As it stands now

The days flew by this past week and I didn’t get much done on this casein canvas of the three drafts. A Pair & A Spare But I did want to show those who are interested in my method, at what point the painting is now .I have done a bit more definition,with lighter lights etc, BUT the work has a long way to go still.

I also started two oils on copper panels, a 10 x 10 equine piece and a 10 x 10 garden scene. Working on those two works got me dreaming…dreaming about heading out west to paint cow-ponies and cowboys …stark western landscapes and bright colors….all while sitting here in green green Maine. Travelling in my head! But it is a dream that I will pursue at some point . You have to have dreams!
My winter squash hanging out in our garden!

The grass keeps growing around our cottage lawns…needs mowing and the veggies are growing rampant on the farm! I have winter squash and cukes climbing our garden arbor, vining around my grapes and morning-glories. What a splendid display of the effects of spreading composted horse manure around the gardens! So I decided to paint my garden’s bounty! Last spring these veggies were just a dream. So I hauled old manure and tilled the soil and watered the seeds…and now Voila! Beauty and bounty!

I can just hope that my artwork can yield the same …..and I can get out west and paint those cowboys!!

I have a dream……………

©Copyright 2010 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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To Market To Market

August 19th, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters

There are days on end, it seems, where I don’t even get down to the studio… or out into our gardens.. Why you might ask? Because more and more it seems that an artist has to self-market. This is sad. I feel that the most important part of being an artist is actually producing works. I have worked with galleries for years and they market my work, and I have been very happy with them…always had a good work relationship. But the buzz today in the art world, is you HAVE to market yourself. The Internet is the be-all and end-all of art marketing. I hope this is not true. I would so much rather be painting than “selling”. My heart song is creating….not “pedalling”.
And that brings up another topic concerning marketing….I guess you would say that my work is slanted to a certain market….The equine art market. That is my target market….and I have always considered that a plus..having a target clientele and not just creating “willy nilly”. I feel that this has helped me over the years….but it has not limited me to be creating only work depicting the horse. I do beak the mold every so often and pump out a painting of a dog or a landscape!
I don’t know what prompted this blog post…..but I supposed it does have something to do with hearing about yet another gallery closing not one that I am with! …….but I will continue to paint. I have to.

“The Small Farm” casein on board 12 x 12″

I am working on some new paintings for a show opening in late September at Skyline Farm in North Yarmouth, Maine. This is their 5th annual Invitational show and I am pleased to be included with their great lineup of Maine artists. This year’s show title is “Homegrown”,…….and that leads me to feel that I need to get out off the office,out of the studio….and get working on my veggie garden! Homegrown for sure! To market To market!!

©Copyright 2010 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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Summer Green

August 11th, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters
Winter squash fight for room on the arbor.
Our grape arbor and fire pit.

It is summer and everything is growing…growing fast and green and out of control, around Cob Cottage. Our grape arbor is covered with grapes and the veggie gardens on both side of the arbor are over flowing with tomatoes and cukes.I am fighting a daily battle with our resident deer population …and barely have time to stop and smell the roses it seems. Where are those lazy crazy days of summer? I know “they” write songs about those days…but “they” must not have horses, gardens, lawn to mow, dogs to walk or deer to chase OR gallery shows to produce art work for!
“The Two Greyhounds” oil on copper 8 x 10″
This is my latest oil on copper painting. These two rescue Italian Greyhounds belong to an artist friend of mine. The two handsome boys were sitting in front of their frosted window on a cold winter’s day during a visit, and I had to take a picture of them that I knew I would paint some day. The painting is done now……just waiting to be varnished. The painting is available through my website.

©Copyright 2010 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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Three Bigger Biggers As A Casein Work In Progress

August 6th, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters
A 30 x 40″ canvas

How do I apply my paint?

Well, if it is casein then this is sort of how I approach a painting. Sometimes I do start with a colored groun , but I am just as likely to start out with a plain old gessoed canvas…….. as white as driven snow! I took this photo that I am working with, a few years ago, of horses up at Acadia at Wildwood Stables. A pair and a spare. You can see the photo sitting on the easel, the canvas image is sketched out in charcoal and I have gone in with Payne’s Gray and later with Purple to establish my darkest of darks. Bare with me now. I am not a teacher…so my explanations might not be the best!

My palette,sort of empty at this point,but this is how I set up.

Then I go with the old middle tone color that I will build on as I go on painting.I often start out my work with Paynes Gray,Terra Verte and Golden Ochre,and Purple………I do…Don’t ask me why….I just do?!! I like to establish my shadows and light’s direction from the get go.That helps pull the painting together later. Casein has the most wonderful colors I feel….all earthy and with a lovely matte finish.
A cropped version of the painting.Design, Design, Design!! I feel the MOST IMPORTANT part of a painting is DESIGN! If the design is bad,…’the composition’,… then the entire painting won’t work. I cropped the painting in progress here and I think this crop would work as a painting on it’s own. In other words…I am happy with my design. So I proceed…………
It is coming along here.
The darkest shadows and the light color notes are in.

Now I leave it alone for 24 hours, to let the casein base colors dry..and I take time to walk the dogs, clean the stalls, feed the man and sleep. Then I will be back at it when I have time. Hopefully later today.

©Copyright 2010 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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My Work In New Exhibit & I’ve Gone To The Dogs

August 5th, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters
“Riding With” casein on paper 9 x 12″

HITS, Inc. and Fletcher Gallery are announcing that after several months of public display throughout the Woodstock community, the HITS-on-the-Hudson Equestrian Art Exhibition will now be on display for a month-long gallery show at Fletcher Gallery located at 40 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock, New York. My casein painting “Riding With” is part of this stellar exhibit.

The HITS-on-the-Hudson Equestrian Art Exhibition features 59 equestrian-themed works of art in various mediums, including painting, photography, and sculpture that will be auctioned in September to raise money for FAMILY of Woodstock, Inc. and the participating artists. The collection is a mix of both existing and newly commissioned pieces created by local and national artists, as well as several estate and period pieces which have been curated by Tom Fletcher specifically for this event.
At the conclusion of the August gallery show, the collection will move to the HITS-on-the-Hudson show grounds in Saugerties where it will be on display for a two-week preview leading up to the grand finale – the Auction on Friday, September 10 that will raise money for FAMILY of Woodstock, Inc. and the participating artists. FAMILY will receive 50% of the proceeds from each piece auctioned, with the other 50% going to the artist. Friday night’s auction is a by-invitation-only event that will kick-off the festivities for the Pfizer Million Weekend at HITS, which will also include another Saugerties first – the $50,000 FEI World Cup Qualifier on Saturday, September 11, followed by the highly anticipated Pfizer $1 Million Grand Prix and John Fogerty live in concert on Sunday, September 12.. This is a grand affair and I am happy that even though I won’t be there to enjoy it all…my artwork will be there representing me!

I will be home…doing my thing. Cleaning stalls and waking dogs!..AND painting! I have been working on several new oils on copper.One of the paintings is the two greyhounds below,who belong to an artist friend of mine. They are rescue boys and she loves they to pieces. I love their clean lines,full of grace and movement.But truth be known…those boys are naughty little devils!!

Starting an oil on copper painting

So I am heading down now to the studio…It is a good day for painting…..everyone is sleeping, THE DOGS,THE AILING HUSBAND the house is quiet. I am seizing the moment..

©Copyright 2010 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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Opening In Saratoga Springs,NY.

July 31st, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters

“Cinching Up” casein on board 12 x 12″

“What Are You Looking At” casein on board 12 x 12″

These are two of my three paintings depicting hunter-jumper scenes, that are part of my work in the Equidea Gallery Exhibit. The gallery is holding its champagne and artists’ reception to night in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. from 6 – 8 pm. Equidea Gallery is housed in the Holiday Inn and is open throughout the racing season. I have other work hanging in this show….stop in and see!!

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A New Casein And A Pen & Ink

July 30th, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters

“Lady And Her Horse” Casein on Paper 12 x 9″

The days have been flying by, as I play nurse-maid and farm manager at Cob Cottage, while my husband recuperates from his carriage driving accident at Acadia National Park. He is on the mend…, but it will be a slow process, as his 4 broken ribs heal. This means I have less actual studio time. But I have been able to squeeze some sketching time into each day, so as not to have them be a total loss art-wise. So I did do this casein on paper…..my take on a elegant lady and her steed, a painting prompted by the photography of Yvonne Kaukija of Coldwell Farm in Sweden. Yvonne has become a close Face Book friend!……and her horses are so handsome.

Another friend,a collector of my work, sent me a great shot of her driving horse,and carriage turnout. This prompted a pen and ink sketch…..I did it between waiting on my ailing husband. It is about 8 1/2 x 12 ” and is on Strathmore paper.

“Lady Whip” 8.5 X 12″ pen & ink

I am excited to say that my painting “Shades Of Gray #7- “Ladies In White” has made it into the top ten in the Bold Brush Competition…which qualifies it to be awarded a place in their “Fav15″. This is a pleasant surprise. But the voting does continue until the end of the month….so if you are just reading this I would love to have your vote….just click the “like-button” up on their art show page. The link available is above.. on the artwork’s title. That will take you right there. Thanks!!

You can also clink on to this get to the page to vote!

And now down to the barn I go to ‘manage the farm”…..a polite to say muck stalls!! ;-)

©Copyright 2010 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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Another People’s Choice?

July 23rd, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters

I have entered my oil painting, “Shades of Gray #7 – Ladies in White” into the July 2010 FineArtViews Painting competition. If you like it… You can vote for “Peoples Choice” at The Bold Brush Art Competition website. IT ONLY TAKES A CLICK TO VOTE……Thank you! I might make it into the Fav 15 again!! That would be a hoot!! Tell your friends to vote too!

“Shades Of Gray – Ladies In White” Oil on Copper 22 x 22″

I have had little time lately to actually get into a groove and get some quality studio time. I have been grabbing minutes here and there. But my husband, Les, is healing and doing well.So we must admit we are feeling a bit more than blessed these days. Les has a lovely place to rest and recuperate from his driving accident….I am just happy to have him home.Addie, our Corgi is busy being ‘Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy’ and watching his every move. Nellie, our resident Jack Russell ‘Terrierist’ is making sure Les is being washed and loved. How could the man not heal?!!!
Until then……less painting….and more Les!

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Falling Of The Wagon

July 19th, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters

Actually what really happened is that my husband was thrown off the carriage when he was driving with a friend up at Acadia National Park. The pair of Canadian horses they were driving bolted and the fun began! Les hit the gravel carriage roads on his right side, which left him with 4 broken ribs and a very bruised arm…..and a wicked case of road rash on his arm and face. I received the news Thursday afternoon and life as been in a turmoil since.

After several days at the Bar Harbor hospital, Les is home now recuperating. I get to be nurse maid, farm manager, lawns keeper and chief cook and bottle-washer. Needless to say, I have not had any time to paint.
Studio work has been put on hold.

“Holly Bull”  casein on board  7 x 5″

The above casein was the last painting I finished…..along with an oil on copper that I have not photoed yet . “Holly Bull” will be put on my website in the Small Works Collection. Now back to the patient patient, who needs his meds and a cool drink. This will be slow healing process…..and I am anxious to get him healed!!

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New Oil & Too Old For New Tricks

July 15th, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters

Shades Of Gray#8 Oil on Copper 22 x 22″

It seems as if the past week plus was all about the paint. I was without my computer for over a week and so all my studio time was spent actually painting. Novel idea, no? I think I need to send my PC away every so often just so I can get back on track with just painting,drawing and creating. Sometimes the whole social media ‘stick’ is so time consuming! And now to add to the PC distraction, I have to learn new programs….and figure how to navigate the new PC! And it is true…you can’t train an old dog new tricks….or can’t do it easily! So now this old dog is trying to figure out how to crop, and fiddle with my artwork images…so I apologize for the images within this blog post…..but for the time being, what you see is what I can do! Sorry! The new large oil on copper above is the latest in my “Shades Of Gray “series. This painting is slated to go to Kentucky for the September show at Gallery B. The small oil on copper Jack Russel Terrier painting below is available through my studio.
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Something Is In There” 5 x 7″ oil on copper

There are several other paintings done too, along with two graphites, but I can’t deal with the PC now ….enough is enough!!
But I need to share a bit of a brag before I go….My watercolor painting, “Trio Brio”, was selected as part of the FAV15% (jury’s favorite 15% of the entries) in the June 2010 FineArtViews Painting competition. This is a very prestigious online artshow…and I am so happy to have received this honor. I feel that a “People’s Choice” Award is really an honor! Thanks TO ALL who voted for my painting!!!

And NOW I so need to get back into the studio!!!

©Copyright 2010 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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New Art Work, Great News!

July 4th, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters

“Fetching The Horse” casein on board 5 x7″

A small casein is off the easel, so to speak. A new ParsonJack Russell at play….aren’t they always playing!? Our JRT,Nell is also looking for a play fellow, someone to throw her ‘baby’ for her to fetch, or to take the opposite end of baling twine to play Tug of War. I never get tired of painting dogs….and our JRT and our Corgi are often the canine subjects I portray. But this painting is of a cute little Jack in Lexington that I saw last year. So when I go to Lexington, it isn’t just to capture images of horses! Dogs too!!!!

These days I am busy working on new paintings for my September show… back at Gallery B again. That is always a fun trip with neat horses to see and time spent with good friends.

Yesterday I learned that I was one of the top ten finalists in the voting for favorites in the Bold Brush Painting Competition for the month of June. I actually didn’t even know they did a People’s Choice vote and I am really excited to see my work in that first line of artists… in a very popular online show. In June, I had entered a painting done a bit ago, a watercolor of three Peruvian Paso horses.Who knew it would get 6th place in popular vote in The Fav’s part of the competition in a show that attracts some very brilliant professional artists. So I am painting and smiling today! And gee…thanks to all the friends and folks who voted for my painting!! Thumbs Up!!

“Trio Brio” watercolor on board 12 x 12″

These horses are from a Peruvian Horse Farm in Texas. JyW Coyote Creek Ranch , breeders of the beautiful Peruvian Paso Horse. They now have this painting in their collection.

What a beautiful day we are experiencing here in Maine…. Here’s to a Happy Forth of July weekend for Mainers and those from away!! Enjoy! I will be!!!

©Copyright 2010 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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Mentors In My Past

June 29th, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters

“Manichini” by Manfredo Acerbo  1977
I grew up in Italy, studying art there and I would imagine that I am very influenced my the artwork and artists I knew and saw in my travels through Europe as a child and later as an art student and working artist. I attended the Rome Academy of Fine Art as a young 17 year old,surrounded by artists from around the world who were there as post graduate work, all educated in Fine Art. I was an immature teenager, whom the board at the Academy thought had some talent and promise. I always wonder what they would think today if they saw my work and usual subject matter. I also spent several years in a Roman art school ENALC studying advertising art.
The mentor during this time was on of my professors, a teacher and also a celebrity in his own right. Manfredo Acerbo was a well-known poster designer. Those days in Italy the major advertising medium was posters… plastered all around the cities and towns. Movies,cookware, tomato sauce, aperitifs…. all advertised on posters. Manfredo was one of the famous designers of posters… did a lot of them for the spaghetti westerns that were so popular that that time. But he was also a fine artist and a good friend of the famous painter Giorgio Morandi,who is well know for his still-life work. I have always loved Morandi’s simple design and so Italian palette. I feel close to them.

The reason I am rambling on about this is that today, the words spoken to me by Acerbo, the words that I will always keep as my reason for doing what I do….. has been speaking to me much! Acerbo advised me, one day after a grueling painting session with a ‘nasty” model…..”Kati that was how he pronounced my name do not listen to this bitter critic ….but always draw, paint from your heart. The model was upset with your work because you captured her soul and she didn’t like what you saw. Never loose that ability you have to capture the real subject.You have your own style and never let it be influenced by other artist, teachers,or critics. STAY TRUE TO YOUR SELF”

Those words have become my mantra of sorts….. I only hope that I can live up to his expectations of my artistic abilities…… it all seems like yesterday and yet so far far away.

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Doing Those Self-portraits

June 23rd, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters

I think that artists should do self-portraits every so often. I have blogged about that before. I don’t have live models available to work from, so if I do a self-portrait, I get a cheap model and can get a figurative work done. I try to get one self-portrait and maybe a still-life into my portfolio on a regular basis.

Over the past two weeks I have done two small acrylics and one graphite self-portraits. With the acrylics I approached them from a weird angle, and did the same view twice, but with difference crops.

“Retrospective #1″ acrylic  4 x 4″

” Retrospective #2″ Acrylic 4 x 4″

The graphite is a straight on view, looking strait at the mirror…..but I cropped it so just one side of my face is portrayed. The’ alive’ side? So…what do you think? Did I succeed in capturing provocative pieces?

“Self” graphite 10 x 3″

It is a very rainy day out…and I am only now getting to actually work in the studio…just one of those days!

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Around the Farm

June 22nd, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters

All our equine kids on the farm are well fed and busy these days, keeping the fields mowed. They complain that it is a full time job….and that I should not bother them this summer, as they are far to busy! Our bay Cob mares are the busiest, for sure!

This afternoon I took a walk out to the pond to snap some photos of our pond-lilies that are in bloom.The sun was too bright to get the true color of the lilies, but I so want to paint them and I am thinking this HAS to be done in oil and on copper! It won’t be plein air, but close to!!

And then, as I walked back from the pond and the fields, I saw the hydrangea in full blossom, a delicate blue and begging to be photographed…and should be painted! I know these are not horses, but I just have this need to try everything on copper and in oil!


�But I have been painting too….between the walks….

“Pokey Pembroke”
5×7″ oil on copper

Today I finished this small oil on copper of our Corgi…this will be added to my website and is available.In the meantime I need to get some caseins done for the September show at Gallery B ,in Lexington, KY. So it is back to the studio for me!

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Watching Paint Dry

June 15th, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters

I have finished the 22 x 22″ oil on copper on birch…and I am very pleased with the finished product! I will be doing more paintings on this support…. on copper panels. With a local supplier, I am promised the availability of the copper, and am more that happy that this is a support I can have on hand and use as the muse dictates. As soon as I can get a better shot of the painting, I will be posting it on my website. I will be including this painting in my “Shades of Gray” series.

The woman rider is a very important part of this composition, so I am showing a closeup of her here.
This painting is all about the light and the shadows..and the ever design.

Now back to the casein painting in progress….a handsome Kentucky foal!

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Copper and Oils and Gardens

June 9th, 2010 | Posted by Kathi Peters


Addie PWC and I went for a walk in the back yard,checking on how our gardens are coming along. Mistress Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow? I think we quite agree that so far, so good. The small hydrangea has taken to it’s new spot on our farm and is coming into flower. The white clematis that climbs our back arbor, is in full bloom,covered with flowers.

After our walk we headed back into the studio to work on the oil painting on the copper panel. I hope to get this one done this week. I have some other commission work I need to get done and then have new ideas I want to try on more copper panels. I am liking this oil painting on copper for sure.

I learned today that I was featured in an article written by Renee Phillips in the new July/August Art Calendar magazine. The article is titled: “Healing Power of Creativity”. Surprise Surprise! I don’t think that I knew about this article?? But I am smiling! Thank you, Renee. I can’t wait to actually see it!!

©Copyright 2010 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit her website.

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