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.
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Yesterday, I worked on a total of six paintings throughout the day. One small format, which is very close to completion, and five ACEO landscapes.
This is Landscape Study #18 2008: Silence.
Landscape Study #17 2008 is my landscape painting for the week of August 4, 2008.
….Seems to me like there was a popular Country/Western song by that name many years ago. I can hear the chorus in my ear this morning, but don’t quite remember the artist. Eddie Rabbitt, maybe? (Have I given away my age, yet?)
The light is gorgeous, but then I always have been deeply appreciative of the effects of rain and overcast on light. There is something deeply satisfying about the way distance looks when viewed through a veil of rain.
I am left wondering how close winter is. This year has been the coolest year I’ve experienced since moving to Kansas in 2002 and the recorded average global temperatures bear out that observation. Several “coldest month on record” months have already been noted this year.
Granted, we did have some 100 degree plus weather at the end of July. Five or six days of it, if I remember correctly. But the first year I was in Kansas, we had five or six weeks of days in the low 100s and nights all the way down to 80 or 90!
This is my Landscape A Week painting for the week of August 4.
This is my Landscape A Week painting for last week. Yet to be titled, this painting was finished on Wednesday or Thursday of last week…
On Sunday, August 3, from about 2:30 to 5 p.m., I participated a combination chamber concert and art exhibit at West Side Baptist Church, 304 Seneca in Wichita.
I am very happy to announce the opening of a new, one-month exhibit at the 
The exhibit opening will be Saturday evening from 7 to 9 p.m., August 2. I invite you to stop by the Carriage Factory Gallery to see this exhibit and visit with the artists.
With the glut of things going on at home, church and work and some potentially interesting developments in other places, as well, progress on A Gray Day in Concord has not been quite as ambitious as I had hoped when I put it on the easel last week.
I ended up with just a little bit of studio time at the beginning of the day and a little bit at the end.
I began with this one. While the light areas were still quite wet, it was a simple matter to add darks to the trees and work on the water in the areas that were more dry.
After much puttering around, self-imposed distractions, odd jobs and busy work, I did finally get around to putting paint on canvas yesterday.
This is the second one and I like this much better. I suppose the gray and moody atmosphere is an accurate reflection of what’s going on inside at the moment.
