“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! 
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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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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 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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“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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This is an 8 x 10″ mixed media painting on board that I have done before in casein, but felt a need to “revisit”again as a mixed media. This time I used casein, acrylic and ink to get the effect that I was looking for.This winter painting is available on my website.
‘Frolic” the pony in this work, came into our lives when we lived in North Pownal. At the point we had 6 horses and Frolic became our granddaughter’s first pony. He was a great guy…very well behaved and knew how to take care of a new rider. But not only did he know riders, he was a great driving pony who once was part of a handsome pair. A handsome Welsh pony….the kind that every little girl dreams of and for a while he was part of our Jackie’s life.
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The rain came down for hours, pounding on our cottage’s metal roof, running in rivulets down the driveway back to the barn and it filled our bubbly brook to over flowing. This brook is usually a rambling brook that gently trips it way through the woods that stand on the one side of our property. There is a scraggly evergreen tree that stands in the middle of this brook …and I love it. It has grown a bit since we moved here, and I enjoy seeing it as it stands sentinel in the midst of the mountain run-off brook. I imagine decorating it with lights and tinsel every Christmas, but I don’t do it. Instead I let mother nature decorate it with new fallen snow each winter, and to skirt it with a blanket of ice. So far this winter there has not been any snow here in our part of Maine, but I am sure we won’t have to wait much longer for the white to come. Until it does come, I will enjoy listening to the brook as it sings… as it winds past Cob Cottage.
I have been busy working on several works in casein, and one of these paintings is of a hunt scene. I started with one image and have added and subtracted from it in the process. The image below is how it looked at one point. Keep this in mind, as I will be posting the finished work very shortly….and it looks differently . That is my prerogative …artist license one could say. I am just trying to sing my song…and sometimes I get out of tune! I hope it is ‘on pitch’ when it is done!
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“Experiencing Freeport Maine- Showing Our Town Through Art” finally ends with the Auction on Friday night [12/5/2009] at Freeport Square Gallery ,140 Main Street, in Freeport at 7 pm. This has been a fun ‘ride” …my first grant experience and also a learning experience. What did I learn? It is good to stretch and try your wings once in a while…..and that I CAN do bigger paintings in my tiny loft studio.
“Freeport Heroes” casein on canvas 4′ x 4′
Our eldest son is a Portland, Maine fireman…so to honor him, and all firemen… I chose to depict Freeport’s firemen circa the 1940’s. I put their ladder truck in a 1940’s parade down Main Street and in front of the old L.L.Bean building. The scene is a figment of my imagination, a compilation of old photos and imaginary people. It was a stretch.
It was fun and hopefully someone can relate to it and imagine it hanging on their wall!!
And it better be a big wall!!!
Hope to see you there!
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“Riding With” casein on paper 9 x 12″ copyright 2009
On a rainy windy and bleak day like today…I am sitting here and wondering if I posted this art work before…? If I did, please forgive. Yes, some days I wouldn’t find my head if it wasn’t attached! This is a casein work on paper.
Next week, a small show opens at Gallery B in Lexington, KY and I have several works in this holiday show of “Tiny Treasures” on November 23rd. Everything in that show will be approximately 12 x 12″ or smaller.
And then the auction of all the art works that were in in the Freeport Maine’s Artists in Maine Communities grant, “Experiencing Freeport-Knowing Our Town Though Art” happens the beginning of December. I will post more about that when I know more! My painting “Freeport Heroes” will be on sale at the auction.
The pups are napping on the couch, listening to jazz and the rain beating on the windows. If I continue that way I am now…I will be joining them soon. It is one of those days! That is the ONE THING that I am sure of on a day like this!
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“Headed To The Ring”
casein 12 x 9″
Kathi Peters
copyright 2009
Sometimes it is not what I paint but more what I leave out.
This painting is of a rider and her horse going to the ring for a hunter-jumper class taken in the Kentucky Horse Park last May. I have a wealth of images to work with from that show, but many of the images are crowed with background noise. I am a firm believer in “Less is More”…..so I edit a lot,crop images and make sure the design of the painting works.
I hope I have succeeded in the 12 x 9″ casein on paper?
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Looking out from my studio, the farm is starting to look a bit gray around the edges. The gold and orange of Fall makes way for the more solemn gray of the coming winter. But the one bright spot behind the barn,beside the pond, stands out with the still yellow of the Tamarack trees. I love them in the fall with their burst of yellow and again in spring when they put out their delicate soft Chromium Light Green needles that just whisper of the coming of warmth and growth on the farm.
The other bright spot being my awesome yellow barn doors. What a great statement they make!
Canvas is not the only thing I paint!!
Don’t forget the 140 Hours of Fame Art show and Auction that is taking place on Twitter….check it out. A great way to get some great art to brighten up your walls for this winter! It starts tomorrow, Nov.5th! Bid early and bid often! 
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I have been working on this 11 3/4 x 13 3/4″ casein for a few days now, on and off. Yes, another white foreshortened horse. This is a subject that I can not get tired of exploring. And I will be doing more white horses over time…a series of sorts. [Like my 'Shades of Black' series that can be seen on my website.] This is a stallion from the Darley Farm in Lexington KY., a wonderful Thoroughbred Stud Farm that I was privileged to visit last spring. You don’t see many farms like this here in Maine!
It is quiet today at Cob Cottage Studio…Nellie, our non-stop Jack Russell Terrier, is at the vet’s, where she will spend the night, recuperating after having been spade this morning. She is doing well..or so I was told when I called a bit ago to check on her progress. Addie, our Corgi, is enjoying her reprieve from her nemesis and napping and taking leisurely strolls around the farm. How Nell has changed our life…for the better….since she came into it a year ago. But for today we are enjoying a quiet time. 
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