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Le Cadeau Du Cheval Mural Mosaic Unveiling September 3, 2008

August 23rd, 2008 | Posted in News

International Collaborative EQUINE Mural Masterpiece Featuring 238 Individual Paintings Combined to Form One Unified Image Celebrating the Horse To Be Unveiled September 3rd

Le Cadeau Du Cheval- THE HORSE GIFT

Official Unveiling
SEPTEMBER 3rd 2008
“THE MASTERS” at SPRUCE MEADOWS
INTERNATIONAL EQUINE TOURNAMENT
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1:00 p.m. MST
Located in the the Equiplex at Equi-Fair

On September 3rd, 2008 a stunning collaborative mural celebrating the horse, combining 187 of some of the finest equine artists from around the world, will be unveiled in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and then toured throughout the world. The mural combines 238-16 inch x 16 inch paintings of various equine themed paintings together, with NO DIGITAL EFFECTS, to form one unified mural masterpiece. Designed by Canadian artist LEWIS LAVOIE- the mural brings together the amazing talents of equine artists from such countries as Canada, USA, England Germany, Finland, Romania, South Africa, Argentina, Peru, Australia and Mexico. This mural is considered by many to be the most definitive collaborative equine masterpiece ever created celebrating the worlds love,admiration and respect for the horse.
About Mural Mosaic: “Unity through diversity”

Mural Mosaic brings together hundreds of individual paintings created by hundreds of artists into one unifying image. Each painting reflects an individual’s unique creativity and style. When a painting is completed it is carefully placed in sequence within the mural to assemble one masterpiece.
For more details, imagery and interviews please visit www.MuralMosaic.com or contact Phil Alain at 780-718-7635 – email phil@muralmosaic.com
MURAL MOSAIC
Unity Through Diversity
www.MuralMosaic.com

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In Legend and Story

August 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Heather Anderson

Le Cadeau du Cheval mural mosaic panel, before and after. Copyright Heather Anderson, all rights reserved.

For weeks I followed the progress on a huge horse mural – the Horse Gift (Le Cadeau Du Cheval) that will be premiered in September at Spruce Meadows. It totally fascinated me that the artists involved were taking what amounted to abstract panels and turning them into horse paintings, that when put together, will form a new image .
But I couldn’t take part – I had too much work, too much “stuff” happening that had to be dealt with. There was no way I could do a mural panel – was there?
One by one, the impediments slipped away and suddenly, I realized that I would be able to do one after all, and I wrote and asked if there was anything left for me. Fortunately, I wasn’t too late, and I was able to join in the fun with Panel 19 that became IN LEGEND AND STORY. My panel is about how legend became stories, and those stories eventually became the horse books that young girls dream on. My panel salutes the glorious stallions of every color, the gentle mares, and the loyal geldings.
Many of those horse crazy girls are lucky – they never outgrow that love of horses and they grow up to be horse crazy women who make their horse dreams come true. I know they do, because I was one of them.

©Copyright 2008 by Heather Anderson. See original post here.
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Wild Horse Days & The Horse Gift Unveiling

August 17th, 2008 | Posted in Sue E. Kroll

August 23rd I will be in DeBeque, Colorado, Wild Horse Days, as a vendor. If you are in the area on Saturday, please come by and say Hi!!! I have never been at this venue before but have heard nothing but wonderful things about it. This venue is a fundraiser to help the wild mustangs that are in the area. Please come by and enjoy the festivities that they will be providing. I will have original paintings, prints, and notecards for sale there and look forward to the nice weather and wonderful people.

The Horse Gift Mural Mosaic, Le Cadeau du Cheval, will be unveiled at Spruce Meadows on September 3rd! Only a few more weeks and we will see what the entire mural looks like. There is a teaser of the horse’s face on the Spruce Meadows site.

©Copyright 2008 by Sue E. Kroll. See original post here.
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The Mural Mosaic Project

July 19th, 2008 | Posted in Joan Jannaman
Le Cadeau du Cheval panel by Joan Jannaman - before.

Le Cadeau du Cheval panel of a jumping white horse by Joan Jannaman - after.

My contribution to the “Cadeau du Cheval, The Horse Gift” Mural Mosaic has been packed and shipped to Alberta. It’s panel #5 all the way on the top left area. I still check the mural site a lot to see if I can see what new paintings have been added. It’s like a game of “where’s waldo”at this point, as the paintings are really filling in the space. (Warning… time flies as you’re checking out all the paintings and reading the artists comments! Addictive in a good way.) I’ve been impressed with the attention to detail that the artists in charge have shown from the beginning, they’ve been great to work with….. Check it out…just go to :

http://www.muralmosaic.com/Cadeau.html

I’ve posted the original panel that arrived in the mail to me back in May. I took one look at it and couldn’t imagine anything else but a big log jump. That’s probably because my friend and I just got back from the Rolex 3 day event and I guess I still had the images of those monster sized hurdles on my mind ! The colors were not in my usual pallete for sure, so it was an adventure to slather on all that purple and electric green and blue! Can’t wait to see the final mural image after it’s unveiled at Spruce Meadows in Canada in September.

©Copyright 2008 by Joan Jannaman. See original post here.
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July 8 – Update and the Mosaic Project

July 8th, 2008 | Posted in Elin Pendleton

Le Cadeau du Cheval mural mosaic panel, copyright Elin Pendleton

I’ve been busy and quiet lately! Having fun painting a couple of horses for the Mural Project for Le Cheval (“the horse”). Here is the first of two I’ve sent off to them, both are acrylics. The panels measure approximately 18″ on a side, and the artist must follow the guidelines for value and color to achieve the finished work. Mine was a challenge, but no more so than the others you can see here. Mine are not in place yet… numbers 136 and 216. Perhaps when you get this, the folks in charge will have put it up.
I know that I could not follow the Color System, or pull out the stops to make this painting my own, but I enjoyed the diversion from the other things I’ve been doing.

One of those things is to radically respond to the gas prices. I bought a smaller transportation vehicle–here’s an image of it, complete with the two Teddy Roosevelt terriers, Onslow and Sparky.Elin Pendleton and her new scooter.

Getting 70 mpg is great! This was taken in our driveway.

And the other news is that I’m much thinner than what you see there–dropped 18 pounds, and still going. (Hey, that IS a helmet in my lap!!) I highly recommend the book, “Dr. Gundry’s Diet Evolution” to take the weight off and keep it off. He presents a logical reason why our genetic code makes us unhealthy and chubby as we age. I’m winning, and I hope you will too!

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©Copyright 2008 by Elin Pendleton. See original post here.
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Finished the Peach panel!!

July 7th, 2008 | Posted in Michelle Grant

Le Cadeau du Cheval "The Horse Gift" mural mosaic panel of Peach the palomino pony complete. Copyright Michelle Grant.

I am officially finished Peach now!!

I glazed some Burnt Sienna over her forelock and ears, and some in her eye and eyelashes to tone them down some. I also reworked the forelock some more, once it was dry. I straightened the line of the neck more, as it had gotten a bit wobbly. I also glazed in some Burnt Sienna and Alizarin Crimson into her snip, between her nostrils to warm it up and make it more flesh like. I also worked some more highlights into her blaze with a very light mixture of Naples Yellow, Burnt Sienna and Titanium White. Then I signed it! Wooohooo!

This is truly a tribute to a very very special pony who’s awesome personality and character will never be forgotten.

I have posted the finished panel to my website under the “painting” category.

©Copyright 2008 by Michelle Grant. See original post here.
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Arts in the park, Belfast Maine & Le Cadeau Du Cheval Mural Panel is up

July 5th, 2008 | Posted in Debbie Flood

"On The Scent," a watercolor painting of a hound by artist Debbie Flood. Copyright Debbie Flood.

This Watercolor Painting: On the scent is included in an online show with the Canine Art Guild,CAG “Pot luck Exhibit”. Check it out and vote for your favorite!!

What a week here at the studio! I am feverishly working to get all inventory framed, or packaged and priced and ready for the Arts in the Park in Belfast, Maine, July 12 & 13.
I am currently taking pre~orders for the Giclee of the Jennie Flood Kreger, Schooner, Watercolor. I think this is going to be a very popular painting & image! If you want to reserve a Limited Edition Giclee for yourself, please contact me, Debbie Flood, or come to the Arts in the Park festival to reserve your edition. There will only be 50 printed in the large size. If anyone is interested in an open edition, smaller Giclee, I will take orders for those too. I will have the original Watercolor painting on view at the park festival also.

The mural panel I painted, titled “The ride of freedom” for the Le Cadeau Du Cheval, The Horse Gift, Mural, is now up on the grid on their website. It is panel #3. Click on the panel on the grid and my dedication comes up with a larger view of the painting. I am also taking orders and selling a 12 x 12 Giclee of this image.

I am also finishing up an oil painting commission. A seven person portrait, with the church the parents were married in. I’m crunching to get this painting done. It has a deadline of, no later than August 14! Oil paint is so slow to dry and it should be painted in layers. Each layer needs to dry to touch before another layer can be added. I’ve only been sweating a few bullets…ha.
This is why it is so important to contact me very early….way before the deadlines are due, when wanting an oil painting. This client contacted me a year in advance! Thank you for that!!
I’ve had people ask me if I can do an oil a few weeks before Christmas! Right…when pigs fly! I think that is why I do so many watercolors. Those I can whip up a little better in a timely manner.
But I do have a Watercolor Painting Commission at the moment that needs to be finished up. I think it is pretty close. Next step will be to have the client check it. Make any needed adjustments and then frame it.

It’s getting late here tonight. Oh those summer nights! I love July!!!! Need to hit the hay and get back into the studio tomorrow. Yup, on a Sunday! No rest for the artist.

Deb

Debbie Flood, Artist. Equine, Wildlife, and the natural world.

http://www.debfloodart.com

©Copyright 2008 by Debbie Flood. See original post here.
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Panel 192

July 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Judy Johnson

I finished the panel for the the Mural Mosaic project, a few days late, which I blame on my trail ride across the state of Michigan. Ironic. Go to www.muralmosaic.com/Cadeau.html to see the mural as it unfolds. There are so many great artists involved and some really nice work, especially given the restrictions of the panel design. This is the text which will accompany my panel:
Trail riding is the ultimate horseback activity in my book. To be in the woods or travelling across the countryside in the company of friends and their horses is the perfect way to spend my time- experiencing the weather, the seasons, the terrain and each other’s company. As you can never step in the same river twice, you can never travel the same trail twice, everything changes day to day. With that thought in mind, I pictured my sister and our Paint, Chance, taking a water break on a recent trial ride together.

©Copyright 2008 by Judy Johnson. See original post here.
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Second Mural Panel and the Batty month of June.

July 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Alecia Underhill

Le Cadeau du Cheval "The Horse Gift" mural mosaic panel of paint horses complete. Copyright Alecia Underhill.
Le Cadeau du Cheval "The Horse Gift" mural mosaic panel of paint horses shown before painting. Copyright Alecia Underhill

I was asked to do a second mural panel by the creators of the Cadeau du Cheval mural, and despite a tight deadline, I have managed to get it completed. I saw a white horse head in the middle of the panel, and was able to work it into a bald-faced paint horse. The setting is a county fair horse show, the Friday night horse show classes under the lights.
There are many more images added to the mural mosaic, check out the live grid at http://www.muralmosaic.com/Cadeau.html

It’s been a crazy summer here, so far. Every day has a chance of thunderstorms, so it’s difficult to get any riding in, for fear of being caught out in a lighting storm. It’s been a time to catch up with farm chores and simply enjoy the backyard. The month of June is the batty month for us. Our old timber framed barn has a healthy colony of brown bats that raise their young along the top rafter. The only trouble is, the baby bats don’t seem to be able to cling to the rafter very easily, and many of them fall three stories, only to dehydrate and perish on the barn floor. We rescue as many as we can, carefully using a stick to pick them up by the back legs, which eagerly grip onto anything they can. We sometimes place the babies on a board and move them as high up in the barn as we can, climbing into the loft and leaving the board with the bats on a high beam, hoping they can crawl back up to the colony. I have no idea how many of these bats actually make it, but we just can’t leave them on the floor of the barn to shrivel up. Having been through this routine for eight years now, I’ve gotten used to the bats, but I love to show visitors the brown lumps up along the rafter and explain what they are, and watch them back sloooowly out of the barn. Admittedly, it is rather disconcerting to reach for a piece of equipment and find a bat clinging to it. One day, when one of the geldings refused to eat his grain, I was worried, until I looked in his feed tub and found a bat in there with the grain. I love having them around, though. We have never had a big mosquito problem around here.

©Copyright 2008 by Alecia Underhill. See original post here.
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Third session on the Peach panel

July 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Michelle Grant

Le Cadeau du Cheval "The Horse Gift" mural mosaic panel of palomino pony in progress. Copyright Michelle Grant.
Le Cadeau du Cheval "The Horse Gift" mural mosaic panel of palomino pony. Copyright Michelle Grant.

This is after the third painting session on the Peach Panel. I musta spent about 4-5 hours on it, wiping off some of the problem areas as I went. Luckily its easy to do with oils on a panel! I struggled alot at first, trying to find my painting groove. Hoping to be mostly done in one more session, or two, I needed to work on the ears, some detail on the face and right eye, the muzzle and some more work on the neck to adjust the values and shape. The forelock also needed to be addressed to match the mane. I also had to double check the background with the digital photos I took to make sure they are close in direction, colour and values. Peach was a very light palomino, but due to the nature of the panel, I have had to make the adjustment of painting her darker. Pretty happy with it so far.

©Copyright 2008 by Michelle Grant. See original post here.
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Finished Panel

July 1st, 2008 | Posted in Bethany Caskey

Ruffian Final

Finished. Varnished, signed and ready to ship today. I still need to write up some artist’s comments about Ruffian to add to the completed mural’s site. This is panel # 203 in the lineup.

©Copyright 2008 by Bethany Caskey. See original post here.
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The Horse Gift panel update

June 25th, 2008 | Posted in Bethany Caskey

Ruffian

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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Le Cadeau Du Cheval Panel Finished!

June 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Deborah O'Sullivan

Le Cadeau du Cheval mural mosaic panel finished - Deborah O'Sullivan
I am finally done. This panel has been a real challenge for me. But I am finished and it will be sent of to Canada today. The mural is looking awesome. If you haven’t checked it out recently go have a peek! This is panel 156. The title is.. Shall We Dance?
The mural will be officially unveiled at Spruce Maadows in September.

©Copyright 2008 by Deborah O’Sullivan. See original post here.
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Poseidon’s Gift; Finished!

June 21st, 2008 | Posted in Karen Baker Thumm

Le Cadeau du Cheval mural mosaic panel finished! Copyright Karen Thumm 2008

It took some marathon painting sessions over the past few days, but I was able to finish the painting today and even signed it, the very last thing I do when I finish a painting.

To the strains of Mozart and then some Gershwin (An American In Paris), I repainted the bay horse and the gray, put manes and tails on the horses, finished the galleon and painted two wee horse heads out in the waves swimming for their lives to shore. I even painted water draining off the horses’ bellies, and that may be the coolest part of the whole painting.

I’m pretty pleased with the way it turned out after some grave misgivings earlier. In the end it came together and serves the purpose for which it was created; to be a part of the Mural Mosaic project.

This painting is probably the biggest challenge I’ve given myself to date. It required a lot of research to pull it off, required that I paint something I’ve never painted before; the ocean and waves on a beach; and required working from less than optimum reference photos. The composition is entirely my own creation. I had no photo to copy to tell me where to put the elements and how big to make them.

There were many times when I thought that I’d bitten off more than I could chew and wished that I’d chosen a simpler subject that wouldn’t have taken so much time and effort. But now that it’s done, I’m glad I had the courage to go so far out of my comfort zone and do something that would help me to grow as an artist. It isn’t perfect, but it’s the best I can do at this time in my development as an artist.

And that’s all I need ask of myself; to do the best that I can do today.

Click on the thumbnail to see a larger view and a detail view of some of the horses.

©Copyright 2008 by Karen Baker Thumm. See original post here.
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Poseidon’s Gift; Water World

June 20th, 2008 | Posted in Karen Baker Thumm

Le Cadeau du Cheval mural mosaic panel in progrees - Karen Thumm
It took me two days just to paint the waves and the ocean. There were many false starts as I laid on paint, wasn’t happy with the results and wiped it off again to try something different. Working without a good, solid reference of large waves coming onshore proved to be challenging, but I did the best I could and can only hope that these waves are a reasonable facsimile of moving water and the power that they represent.

You’ll notice that the bay horse no longer has ears. He will get new ones today when I repaint him. With luck, I should be able to finish the panel today and then do some touchups if needed tomorrow.

Click on the thumbnail above to see the larger image. I just couldn’t get a sharp image of the panel, but when it’s finished, I’ll use the tripod and that should yield better results.

©Copyright 2008 by Karen Baker Thumm. See original post here.
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Mural Mosaic Panel 193: Dance Smartly, Canadian Queen

June 18th, 2008 | Posted in Linda Shantz

Oil painting of Dance Smartly for the Le Cadeau du Cheval mural mosaic project by Linda Shantz
As promised, here is the completed panel. It’s now up on the grid on the Mural Mosaic Le Cadeau du Cheval site, where the mosaic is coming together, piece by piece! Below is the accompanying text for the panel.

The Queen’s Plate: the longest continuously-run sporting event in North America, and Canada’s most prestigious race. In 1991, a royally-bred filly named Dance Smartly was victorious. Bred and raced by Sam-Son Farms, Dance Smartly went on to win the Canadian Triple Crown, and followed that accomplishment by becoming the first Canadian-bred to win a Breeders’ Cup race. She was voted Canadian Horse of the Year and top three-year old filly in North America after remaining undefeated in eight races that season.

Not only was Dance Smartly a brilliant racehorse – inducted into both the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, NY, and the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame – her success continued after retirement as she went on to produce two Queen’s Plate winners. Sadly, Dance Smartly died in 2007 at Sam-Son Farms, but her legacy remains.

In 2008, Sam-Son Farms and the racing community lost both Elizabeth Samuel, wife of founder Ernie Samuel, and daughter Tammy Samuel-Balaz. This panel is a tribute not only to one of the best horses to come out of Canada, but to the role of these two women in Canadian racing history.

©Copyright 2008 by Linda Shantz. See original post here.
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I Think It’s Done . . .

June 18th, 2008 | Posted in Carole Rodrigue

Cadeau du Cheval panel, untitled painting of Incitatus

Cadeau du Cheval panel, untitled painting of Incitatus
Hello! Here’s what I think is my completed panel for the Cadeau du Cheval mural. I’ll take a couple of days to look at it to see if anything needs fixing.
There’s a glare in the photo and you can’t see his necklace well either, but I’m planning on getting this scanned professionally this weekend for future prints. I’ve also decided to not add too much to the piece, just the necklace and purple blanket, along with the black marble stable entrance. Sometimes less is more, and I think the blanket alone should arouse enough curiosity for people to want to know more. Please do email me or leave a comment to let me know what you think!
This weekend will again be a busy one also. I’ve been prepping Lonesome Charlie and had Cafe Regular, and the painting of the soap and glass blocks from my bathroom framed. I’ll be bringing these to the La Cloche art competition on Saturday. This is the first time I’m entering a competition where I’ll be showing actual paintings and I’m just sooo excited! I’d joined a couple of competitions in the past where only pictures were sent, so I’m looking forward to having my paintings seen. Now, I’m hoping they get juried in and that they’ll do well. Wish me luck! I’m attaching pics of the glass blocks and Cafe Regular. Charlie can be seen on my website at www.carolerodrigue.net
Café Regular,original acrylicCafé Regular,original acrylic

Soap, Candle, & Glass, original acrylicSoap, Candle, & Glass, original acrylic

©Copyright 2008 by Carole Rodrigue. See original post here.
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Poseidon’s Gift; Making Waves

June 18th, 2008 | Posted in Karen Baker Thumm


I haven’t painted the ocean in over thirty years, so approaching those waves breaking on the beach has been intimidating to say the least. After searching on the internet for more wave photos and studying all the photos and gaining a better understanding of how waves break on the beach and how they relate to one another, I finally started painting the water. Oh, yes, and I redesigned the waves again.

The photos I gathered and studied and the book I read on painting the sea were invaluable. But when it came down to it, I had to figure out on my own how the light would hit the waves based on my light source and how the wave would integrate into the composition. In every painting there comes a time when you have to put aside your source material and just go with what you know or on instinct.

Last night I finished the first wave breaking and the foreground and was pretty pleased with the way they turned out. If I were doing this painting for myself, I’d do it a lot differently, so the wave patterns have been somewhat dictated by the shape of the panel (square) and the diagonal pattern that is supposed to be retained. The background waves look like a jumble right now, but they’ll look better once I paint in the new ones.

Those purple clouds have been glazed over with light blue to tame them down, and I also glazed blue over the headlands to push them back in space. The clouds look overly red in this photo but are actually more of a bluish purple.

The most difficult part of the painting is now done; that first wave; so I hope to finish the water today, let it dry and then go on to put the finishing touches on the horses and galleon.

At last the end is in sight! As before, click on the thumbnail above to see the larger image and read the story of the mural.

©Copyright 2008 by Karen Baker Thumm. See original post here.
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