©Copyright 2008 by Sue Steiner. See original post here.
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©Copyright 2008 by Sue Steiner. See original post here.
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His name is Ricco and he is a doll baby!!
©Copyright 2008 by Sue Steiner. See original post here.
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Everyone loves a mare and foal! Gaea and Ferendo were crowd favorites at the Fiesta Midwest, and when it was their turn to gallop through the field for people to take photos we were all snapping away! These sweet bay Andalusians created quite a stir! And this painting features the dynamic duo.
Gaeia and Ferendo belong to Gabi, who breeds wonderful Andalusians at her farm, Yeguada Romerito. Fiesta Midwest 2008 was spearheaded by Gabi; she and her team of volunteers created a fantastic event! I hope there will be a Fiesta Midwest 2009.
Gabi’s stallion, Romerito, is part of the Beautiful Horses of Michigan series, and I just started the drawing phase of his painting yesterday.
[Photos are posted at www.karenbrenner.com/blog.html]
©Copyright 2008 by Karen Brenner. See original post here.
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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.
©Copyright 2008 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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Buddy Study #2
6″ x 4″ on Unstretched Artfix Canvas
This is the finished under painting.
At least it’s as finished as I can make it for the present.
I have used the same two colors, Titanium White and Raw Umber, to model Buddy’s head and neck, paying particular attention to the areas that will be most identifiable.
At this stage of the process, I am building detail through a series of steadily more specific development of lights and darks.
The goal is to create as finished a portrait as possible using only two colors. This allows me to develop the ‘look’ of Buddy and an accurate likeness to Buddy without worrying about color. That will come later.
I think this painting is at that point, but I won’t know for sure until it has had time to set for a few days and to dry completely. The Labor Day weekend should be just the right amount of time for that.
When I get back to the studio, I will be able to review it with a fresh eye and decide whether it’s time to go for the color, or if the under painting needs to be tweaked just a little bit more.
©Copyright 2008 by Carrie Lewis. See original post here.
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Today was sort of a “two steps backward and one step forward” day for this piece.
It was the third Wednesday of the month, which meant it was the regular day for the Colored Pencil Circle at the Carriage Factory Gallery.
That meant it was time to pull out this black Morgan mare and put in another hour. As a reminder, this is a colored pencil on black Rising Stonehenge paper.
To begin with, I used a Prismacolor Clear blender to blend the greens because I thought they were competing a little bit too much with the horse. That smoothed and blurred some of the sharper edges and was supposed to create a smoother color layer. That part didn’t work and I discovered the blender was so old it was starting to dry out.
After I was finished with the blender, I used Limepeel applied in close horizontal strokes to further smooth out the color fields in both the trees and the grass. That was followed with Yellow Chartreuse applied in vertical strokes over all of the greens.
I did use a little bit of Dark Umber and Dark Green, as well, but the greens are too dark, so I want to continue to focus on lightening those areas more.
The little bit of work I did on the horse revolved around the head and the tail, both of which I lightened with Cloud Blue in the cool areas and Yellow Ochre in the warm areas.
I will probably need to bring the painting home and work on it from the reference photo on my computer so that I can enlarge it enough to see details. Hopefully that will happen before the next Colored Pencil circle, but with my schedule looking the way it currently looks, that may be more than I can manage.
It is somewhat frustrating to work on the same piece month after month and for only an hour at a time. It does seem to be a process that works, though. Each time I take out the painting for the next work session, it looks better than I expected it to.
I fully expect to take it out one of these months and realize it’s done!
©Copyright 2008 by Carrie Lewis. See original post here.
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Basic colors have been added except for the bottom of the whip, the eye, and the bridle. Palette has added Mars Brown, Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber. I am quickly running out of time to complete the painting and get it shipped. You can check on the mural as panels arrive at:
http://muralmosaic.com/Cadeau.html
©Copyright 2008 by Bethany Caskey. See original post here.
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October Skies continues to take shape. Now that I am working on the horse, though, progress has slowed.
Last evening, I closed out the studio day by working the horse’s head. Beginning with the ears, I blocked everything in using a mixture of Burnt Sienna and Cadmium Yellow. I paid special attention to the ears, where I started, and the rest of the head, since that will be the area that best identifies October Skies.
But I also built color, shape and form into the neck, chest, shoulders and front legs.
The legs are causing some problems. The more work I do on the horse, the less correct they seem. In this painting session, three of the four were adjusted in some way. The front legs looked better when I finished the adjustments. That off-side hind leg still isn’t quite correct.
While I like the way the head looks in this detail shot of the painting, I am still bothered by the legs. It is looking more and more like I may need to paint them out altogether and repaint them. Two steps forward, one step back! Such is the life of an artist!
©Copyright 2008 by Carrie Lewis. See original post here.
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Added some more paint to the mural panel today. The best change I made was simplifying the coat tail so the light/dark pattern is more distinct. From here on out, it’s all about refining detail, and adjusting the lights and darks.
©Copyright 2008 by Tami O. See original post here.
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It’s been awhile since I have been able to get to work at the easel- too busy riding and training for a long distance ride. Priorities! But before I left this one I had done a lot more work on the figure. She became a composite of my young friend and me, just as well that it has become more a universal image perhaps. I am eager to get back to this one, but all in good time.
©Copyright 2008 by Judy Johnson. See original post here.
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