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Three Bigger Biggers As A Casein Work In Progress

August 6th, 2010 | Posted in 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.

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My Work In New Exhibit & I’ve Gone To The Dogs

August 5th, 2010 | Posted in 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..

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Opening In Saratoga Springs,NY.

July 31st, 2010 | Posted in 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 in 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!! ;-)

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Rearing To Go

May 24th, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters

“Shades Of Gray #6″
casein on paper, 12 x 9″

The past few days were a blur of movement. I have been up and down mid-coast Maine, yet loving it all. What a great time of year to be driving through Maine countryside and coastal roads…and all in the call of duty! Through all this flurry of activity, I have managed to finish a small casein on paper and chalk it up as number 6 in my series of “Shades Of Gray” . I am working on some larger works for this series, with some lovely Arabian grays and some Pre grays too! Where my ‘Shades of Black’ series have been mostly my own two black geldings, the grays seem to be from all over the world. Interesting that new friends I have found on Facebook are willing to let me use their photos of their horses as inspiration. It always intrigues me how small the world has become with the event of the Internet!

Warm weather has descended on Maine.Today feels like August.The horses sleep in their run-out sheds, out of the hot sun . The dogs are sleeping on the living-room floor, trying to catch a cool breeze….and I am headed down to my studio where it stays cool. I think I am going to really appreciate my downstairs studio this summer!. I am working on the drawing for a new oil painting on copper. This will be fun! I am excited to be doing this. One could say I am ‘rearing to go”!

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Still Life and Beautiful Maine

May 19th, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters

“Roseville and Angels”
casein on board, 7 x 5″

This small casein, “Roseville and Angels” …..a quick still life depicting my Roseville vase and my clay gold painted angels from Italy, that has been floating around in my head for quite some time. The time was right finally and here it is! I bought the wee angels as a child, when we lived in Milan, Italy. I found them at a street market, and now in retrospect, I am sure they came out of a church at some time. I have always had them in my bedroom….along with a few other angels I brought with me, from Italy, years ago.They guarded me then and do still today!

We have been enjoying this year’s spring in Maine. Our area of the state is wonderful this time of year, when the green of new growth pushes the gray woods branches back into the background, as the yellow green takes over. I had business in Camden the other day and took time to grab some shots of the harbor and two masted schooners there…..and the yellow-green of the mountains surrounding this wonderful ocean front mid-coast village.

I am sure there will be some paintings done in the near future inspired by these shots!

But for now I need to get back into the studio working on some equine images for my Lexington,KY show coming this September…..I have so many ideas………….. and not enough hours in the day!

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Time for Relflection, Poetry, and Packing

May 11th, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters

Spring On Our Farm
I love the rush of wind through fields, The secrets that the woodlot yields, The yellow of the promised leaf of birch,of alder, willow, lurch. The green of grass to green of spruce. The songs of birds when spring lets loose, The pond’s soft ripple as touched by wind. The Lilac’s purple potential bring.
The barn sits empty during day.. The horses out and far away in fields they eat, the new spring sprigs of grass so green and soft gray twigs.
I love the gentle change of greens that spring at our Cob Cottage means.
by me….Kathi Peters!

In the driveway road side stands a lonely yellow tulip..I am not sure how this lone tulip arrived at this place. But I am leaving him there to surprise me each spring…..a bright spot of color against the brown and gray of the spring woods.

In between painting and walking dogs, …I have been busy getting works ready for several shows that are opening on the east coast this May. The two painting shown below are headed to New Jersey for the New Jersey Equine Artists’ Association’s National Juried Exhibition “Art of the Horse, 2010″. The show opens at the Somerset Art Association in Bedminster, NJ� on Thursday, May 20th and will run through Sunday June 20th.

“Shades Of Black#9″  and “First Snow- Revisited”

Then I have my casein “Riding With” juried into the HIT-on the Hudson Equestrian Art Exhibition� and Charity Auction.This is a three part event running from Memorial Day until September 10th, when the works of art from the exhibit will be auctioned off at an evening gala.

“Riding With” casein on paper  9 x 12″

Closer to home, my painting “I Can Do It Myself” will be in the show opening at “The “Festival Of Art ” held at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast, Maine opening May 14th. This is a fun show with works from Maine artists all over age 50.!! I qualify!! You know, it takes an organized person to keep all the information and paperwork together, filled out, and paintings shipped on time to the different venues. I am flying by the seat of my pants in this part of “The Life of An Artist”. I am not organized for the most part!…..but I can paint…and I find I can STILL write poetry!! Enjoy!

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A New Belgian Painting And More

April 15th, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters


As I sit at my drawing board now I can not only look up and see my back gardens..but I can also look up and see my purple orchid sitting on the window sill. And not only am I happy in the new studio space, but I am joined by my orchid that is so happy it is blossoming and throwing out new buds. The casein on the drawing board is done…two big Belgians….I loved the lighting and shadows in this piece and the tails swishing. It was one of those painting that ‘painted it’s self”. I love it when that happens. I will be putting up on my website.

With my mulch spread, and with the lovely spring weather we have been having, we got the veggie garden tilled and ready to start some seeds in….lettuce and spinach..the curly garlic are already up and green! I so enjoy having the gardens to work in…a quick break from painting and easily accessible now. Gardening is good exercise…stretching and bending!

The pups are loving the gardening time too. And excuse for playtime outside!

And basking in the spring sunshine…the two black geldings………muddy black Tennessee Walkers….we are ALL enjoying the coming of spring on the farm. Winters last a long time in Maine.

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Another Gray From The Series

April 6th, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters

“Shade Of Gray” #4″
casein on paper
9 x 12″

Morning found me shipping works out to a new show in Kentucky…and then down to the studio I went. The weather was sunny, warm and inviting, but I kept focused and finished the above casein from the series of gray horses I am doing now….and also I worked on getting closer to finishing a commission portrait of some young men. I was able to open the back door in the studio, to feel the warm and fresh air streaming in..and the two pups stayed with me as I worked. This new studio space is turning out to be an awesome place for me to work in! I can just step out the door and am in my back gardens, looking down to the barn, the horses and the fields beyond! Granted I am still working with piles of art supplies and boxes that have not been sorted or put away….but the space still works! YAY!

Outside the trees are quickly budding and my forsythia is in blossom….the ‘daffies’ are dancing in yellow and pink and purple crocus have popped up here and there throughout my gardens. The glory of spring…the promise of green…..it is a wonder I get anything done in the studio and not be out fiddling in the gardens!

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Another Shade Of Gray On A Gray Day

March 30th, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters

The rain is pelting the windows as I sit now writing from the loft. But a better part of the day was spent painting in the new studio space we have created in our walkout basement. This will be’ my space’, craved out of the limited space in this tiny cottage in the woods of mid coast Maine. I am starting to feel that it is my space as it comes together…as I figure where I want what and what goes where. It amazes me, as I put things away in this much larger space, how much I actually had in my tiny very tiny loft studio. And a lot of what I had crammed into the old studio will be weeded over and be discarded.I vow I will not collect!! I will not horde!! I will simplify!!

The above painting is a 9 x 12″ casein on paper.I will post it on my website when it is done….and did you now I have a few papercut drawings still available?

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The Spanish Walk

March 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters


“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!!!???

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An Aarhus Gallery Show

March 1st, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters

“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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Two Paintings Done – Dog And A Horse

February 20th, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters

“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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Mounted Shooter Aims To Hit

February 15th, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters

“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!

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WAOW..A SHOW

February 9th, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters


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

February 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters

“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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Ridden Dressage In Casein

January 29th, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters

“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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After the Show …High Ho High Ho

January 20th, 2010 | Posted in Kathi Peters


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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