With the icy rain and snow coming down outside, today is a great day to get some painting done and I am hoping to finish off this 18 x18″ casein on canvas today. This is how it stands so far…and I am close to finishing. SO I consider my time in the studio a success today. Time well spent!
This scene of a young eventer starting out on a new morning ..her whole world in front of her…limitless horizons… methaphorically speaks to me of the new year ahead…!
Earlier I did the stalls, walked the dogs and then put the horses back into their stalls with hay, and I think they appreciated it. The snow was building up on their backs and starting to ice…..warm dry stalls are preferred, I am sure!
©Copyright 2008 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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After trying to get this painting shot in a manner that does it justice..I am going with the best shot I have at the moment. This 5 x 7 casein on canvas on board, Titled “Catch Me” is available and may be put on my website at some point….when I get a “round to-it”. Let this be another lesson for me [and I keep having to relearn this!] that varnished caseins are very hard to photograph! This scene is a view of our Cob colt as a weanling…and he often gave me this view when I went out to catch him from the pasture where he was turned out with our geldings. Legacy was a sweety…but like most Cobs…opinioned. He has turned out to be a great boy..super driving Cob and is campaigned by Mary Gray for the Gorman’s.
I am working on getting my “news” together and will soon be sending out the latest from Cob Cottage. Last year was a stellar year for me in spite of ‘myself’! Already 2009 plans of passing that!
Stay tuned!!
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This is a new work in progress. This new casein is 18 x 18″ and it Titled “Start Of A New Day”. It has the square format that I really love to work with and note that my works are getting bigger. I will be moving some of my painting out of the loft and taking over the house! The needed work space is growing!!
2009 is almost upon us all. I personally will take this week to format my plans for the new year. New shows have opened up for me and it is time to break out of the mold….stay tuned! For you who have signed up for my newsletter on my website….you will receive all news via email…so thanks for signing up there!!
Now…down to the do stalls [my daily exercise workout ! ] and then up to the loft to get decide what happens for 2009 and Cob Cottage Studio!
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Wishing You
The Merriest of Christmases
& A Joyful New Year
from
Kathi Peters
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This new 10 x 10″ casein on gallery wrapped canvas, is an Acadia inspired work. This pair are actually the leaders of a four-in-hand coaching visitor at Wildwood. I loved the way the light hit them as they trotted through the pine lined carriage roads on the Rockefeller’s roads behind Little Long Pond. That part of the Acadia Carriage Roads is my favourite part.
I went in loose and abstract with this painting and just finished up with a hint of detail. I have put it up on my website.
Now I need to clean out the studio to make room for new supplies that I ordered …then back to work.
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It might seem as though I am fixated with Acadia………..I am. I miss the old days when the four-in-hand drivers were coming up to Wildwood each fall to picnic and drive, all duded up with their grooms in full livery and their passengers with their fancy hats. It was a taste of a other time. A time when things were slower and full of tradition. I liked that.
This 11 x 14 casein is a scene often seen at the Wildwood barn as the grooms readied their charges..this time it is a Kladruby being groomed…what a lovely team they were stepping out on the carriage roads.
This work is being added onto my website.
Another coupe for me…I finally sent off an ‘email newsletter’ …it was a learning experience for me…full of typos I am sure……but done, nevertheless. This is another way you can hear my news and you can sign up for it on my new website. Check it out!!
Now I am headed out to the barn while the warm weather stays…going down to paint the barn doors…..yellow to match the Tamarack trees that dot our forest line.
A BIT OF COLOR , HEH!!?
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The area of Maine that we live in is very rural. It is still a part of Maine that has open space and working farms. We drive on a back country road to get to Belfast…Belfast is where we go to shop, get our horse supplies, visit doctors,etc. We have been living here going on 6 years now, and we were drawn to this area because of the rural-ness…the dirt roads to ride horses on, and carriage drive. Now we see more houses being built…more farms being divided for development. We laugh that maybe it is time to move more north!
The old barn in this landscape graced some fields that we pass on our way to Belfast. We used to get some of our horses’ hay out of this old barn from a local farmer who stored his crop in it. We watched as the old barn and out buildings crumbled….the silo leaned as the boards rotted. It was like watching an old man change with time. A reminder that we aren’t getting any younger either!
And then one day we were saddened to see the old barn down….the outbuilding torned down and the huge support beams being hauled away. It was gone so fast …Here today and then gone tomorrow.
I had started this casein while the barn was standing…..then I put it away and forgot about it.
I got it out a while ago…and now I call it done. It sort of reminds me that I need to do things now…before there is no tomorrow.
This painting is casein on board , sized at 14 x 18″……
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I have to admit I am not into morning exercises..or doing exercises anytime during the day! But when I was at Keeneland Race track I got some great shots of the horses being exercised and I did this study today from a reference shot that I might want to paint again but bigger. This painting is 9 x 12″ on Colorfix paper done in casein.
I picked up my caseins today for a break from watercolor work. I think every once in a while it is good to take a break….and I am happy with what I came up with!
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It has been a while since my last post…The Skyline Farm art exhibit went off well last week. It is always so gratifying to see the works all hung and then stand back and take in all the beautiful artwork that is year’s Maine artists sent for the show “Fertile Ground”. The work was mostly landscapes…..but all off Maine. My co-curator for this show, Karen Pettengill, and I hung it all in record time. I guess we have had enough practise over the years…and have always worked well together. We have worked together in a green house, as grooms for a four-in-hand driver and now this!
I managed to get works shipped out last week and then my husband and our Corgi and I headed over to New Hampshire to see my brother and his family. It was a long week for me…but fun and I survived it!!!
Today I finished this watercolor and then I attacked my studio mess…..I feel like I deserve a break now, so I am headed out to mow lawn. This grass must stop growing soon…??!! but I think I I like mowing over shovelling snow!
“Kentucky Side Saddle” is 15 x 10″ and is a watercolor on watercolor board. The rider looked so comfortable on her horse, as she sat talking to folks. I HAD to paint her. The watercolor is more about her than her horse, though he was a handsome fellow.
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Again I have been asked for a bigger up close shot of this painting. I hope this works as being up close enough. This painting is varnished and will be going down to Lexington’s Gallery B.
Today I am busy getting works labeled and wrapped to head down to Skyline Farm ’s “Fertile Ground ” Art Show 2008 that opens next Friday night. Sept. 12 th, from 5 to 7 pm to meet the artists!
I am looking forward to seeing everyone there!!
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Another 10 x 10 casein is done and joins the ranks of works in casein…from the KY trip and as seen by “Moi”.
This gray was standing in a paddock at the Kentucky Horse Park and what caught my eye was the sunshine reflecting on the fence boards, the horse’s back and the design the shadows made on the ground. I saw it very abstract and very colorful. That is how I attacked this painting. I think I have captured it?
Literally. 
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The Italian Grayhound breed fascinates me. These dogs are like high fashion models ..all lines and curves. This little ‘Italiano’ greeted me at our local tack shop….I asked if I could photograph the little one and this is one of the shots that interested me….the shadow and lines and curves again.
This is a small casein on canvas on board. [5 x 7"] A joy to paint.
This Labor Day is a glorious day weather wise for us here in Morrill, Maine…we are blessed. My thoughts have been with all the folks…and animals .. affected by Gustav as he pushs his way into their lives today. God bless them all.
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As we rode the roads in Lexington and Versailles, KY., farm after farm had horses, mares with foals, mares alone, and frankly some mares were ready to pop! This lovely gray was one of the ones who caught my eye……….in the huge fields she had to roam with trees in the far distance.
I love mares and I miss our having a mare in foal. But I think our breeding days are done with our Cobs. At least for now. our Maggie is only 4 so has time to wait.
This painting is a casein on gallery wrapped canvas, sized at 10×10″. I love square compositions and the puzzle of getting the balance and design right. I think I got it.
I am doing a series of these Kentucky paintings, all sized the same and all in casein.
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This scene, depicting the Northeast Friesian Horse Club drill team practising at the Post’s farm in New Hampshire, reminded me so much of Lucy Kemp Welch’s painting of women exercising the horses [titled "The Straw Ride: Russley Park,Depot, Wiltshire"]. This casein on board is sized at 8 x 16″. The Northeast Friesian team was photographed back it 2004. It has taken me this long to get this painting done. But I guess life does sometimes get in the way.
Today the farrier comes to trim the horses……….my afternoon will be spent with him and the horses. Our hay man is starting to put hay into the barn……….I am happy about that! It always makes me nervous when the hay isn’t all tucked away for the winter. I think it makes the horses happy too to know their hay is stashed before the snow comes!!!
And then the lawn needs mowing………..and the fields need bush-hogging…….yep, life gets in the way!!!
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This painting is done. It has ended up being a casein…..sized at 12 x 9″ on illustration board. I am calling it “Sunday Go To Meeting Clothes” I know my mother used to hide under their library table in an attempt to not have to get dressed up.This outfit would not have been one of her favourites.Like mother ..like daughter. I left some of the ink lines in the work….
I really like the angle of this piece, the ladies on the porch and the cat wandering through the picture too. all added up to an interesting composition.
Now it the weather would just break and allow me to get back into some papercuts, that would really make me happy!!
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With the icy rain and snow coming down outside, today is a great day to get some painting done and I am hoping to finish off this 18 x18″ casein on canvas today. This is how it stands so far…and I am close to finishing. SO I consider my time in the studio a success today. Time well spent!
