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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My trip to Kentucky will afford me many scenes that will be painted and cut. Bobbye and I drove the back roads out side of Lexington and idyllic scenes such as this were everywhere… Miles of board fencing as far as the eye could see and pastures with grazing horses and mares heavy with foal lined the roadside. Everywhere I looked I saw a painting begging to be done!!! This 10 x 8″ watercolor is the first of many watercolors from this trip.
Bobbye took this shot of me taking a shot at Keeneland…
I am working on a casein painting from that great photo-op too. My studio is a mess….papers and photos everywhere……the gardens outside the studio need work, and a garden edging job I started this morning on our back gardens is strewn across the lawn…..I am feeling the need to paint and that takes presidence over anything else at this point!!
So I am back to the easel…….! Driven!!
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What a trip! The whole experience went by too fast. But I am happy to be home in Cob Cottage !!!
The Kentucky Horse Park is huge….and it was HOT and this ole’ New Englander is not used to that sort of heat. But with downing a lot of H2O I managed to survive.
On the evening of 18th my friend, Bobbye and I went to the opening and book signing of “Equestrian Style” at Gallery B in Lexington. It was so neat to meet Vicky Moon and to actually see the gallery on Main Street. My contact with Vicky, prior to the publication of the book, was all email and by phone. I had never been down to Lexington to see the gallery either. It was a lovely reception…good food, wine and very interesting people to talk to. Lyn Raff, photographer and editor of Horse Art magazine was at the signing too and we got a chance to talk. I enjoyed my ‘outing’.
Bobby and I spent two days doing the Kentucky Horse Park and Keeneland Race Track… we even got to The Red Mile to see where I have been showing for years at Tattersall’s Harness Tracks of America’s Annual Art Exhibit and Auction. My paintings and papercuts had been seen and been hung in these spots..but this was a first for me! I was able to get neat morning shots at Keeneland stable and exercising shots…. Bobbye, who grew up there as a kid while her father ’s horses raced, knew where to take me …what to see…so I was able to get the feel and aura of the this racing Mecca.
The demonstrations at the Horse Park were great and afforded me a primo chance to get wonderful reference shots for future paintings. This shot above of a Spotted Saddle Horse ‘dancing the pole’ is just one of the shots that I have to inspire me. [I am wondering if my Walking Horse , Duster and I can do this???] The best surprise though was getting to see Clay Maier and his Friesian pair that he rides tandem! Awesome!
The Champagne Run Horse Trials were going on too…I got some neat dressage shots.
And I actually got to see the American Academy of Equine Art’s building and to watch Shelly Hunter doing a sculpture workshop. The Carriage Association of America’s Museum was closed..that was a let down…..but we did go into the Horse Museum to get out if the heat for a bit.
My advice….if you are into horses…plan a trip to the Kentucky Horse Park. I will go back …but next time it will not be done in the summer!!! I will stay home in Maine where Life is like it is supposed to be!!
©Copyright 2008 by Kathi Peters. See original post here.
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