There are some horses that just take my breath away because they are awesomely beautiful. Noble Afire is one of them.
This beautiful bay Arabian Stallion was the first Michigan horse we met when we started our trek through the state. He’d been nominated by one of his owners, Ann Hernandez. She and her business partner Kristen Hornby own Weaver Arabians in St. Clair County, Michigan.
Here’s an excerpt from their nomination: “Our stallion hails from an extremely noble lineage. We, his owners, are enthralled by his wonderful movement and gorgeous thick mane and tail, amused by his playful antics, delighted by his gentle personality and forever grateful because his care was entrusted to us as a gift.”
Noble was gifted into Kristen’s care when he was a gangly yearling with some health concerns. A year later he was found gravely ill in his stall by Ann (who was checking on the horses while Kristen attended her uncle’s funeral). Amazingly this stallion was brought back to health with the aide of the Michigan State University Animal Hospital (http://cvm.msu.edu/hospital). The partners now have a treasure to share with all of us who get to meet Noble.
Here is a link to the Weaver Arabians website. I gave Ann permission to use some of the photos I took of Noble Afire on her website. It might be interesting to compare the painting with my original photo, which Ann selected to post on their Home page and on their Stallion page.
[Painting is posted at www.karenbrenner.com/blog.html]
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In preparation for sending a collection of artwork to San Francisco for the upcoming Grand National Rodeo Western Art Show & Sale, Neal and I set up an exhibit of the paintings that will soon be going west.
The exhibit also included other paintings, including those that made a much heralded and storied trip to Louisville, Kentucky in 2003, almost all of the remaining 315 aceo landscapes from a personal challenge in 2007 and quite a few new, small format landscapes.
Fifty or sixty people came by to see the exhibit, to share best wishes in the upcoming show and to enjoy the collection of horse paintings in oil, horse paintings in colored pencil, small format landscapes in oil and colored pencil, aceo paintings in acrylic, oil and colored pencil and one still life of an egg in colored pencil. (Yes, I did say an egg, the result of an online colored pencil lesson…rather out of step with the rest of the collection, but definitely an attention getter!).
