New Work - Jack & Jill

Jack and Jill centaurs climbed up a steep hill, fetching a pail of water. While flirting with Jill, Jack made her pail spill. Foolish yet, and, teasing still, Jack's footing on the rock path did suddenly fall ill. Then, poor Jack fell down and broke his crown, and, fair Jill came atumbling after!

"Jack & Jill" 5x5 alkyd oil painting

For Sale HERE!

New Work - Centaurs

These two centaur paintings got forgotten, but, now I'll post them here! 

"Baby Centaurfold" 5x7 oil

"Daughter of the Moon"  4x4 oil

New Work - Fly Like a Bird

ORIGINAL 2.5" x 3.5" ACEO OIL PAINTING

Galloping fast and leaping as high as he can, an energetic young centaur plays in a game of make-believe...to fly and soar above all, like a bird!

New Work - Soldier Boy

This is another centaur ACEO oil painting, a boy centaur playing soldiers with his trusty wooden sword and shield! 

That is about life-sized and here is a close-up of the face

New Work - Beachball Babe

This latest little centaur is another oil ACEO, just 2.5"x3.5".  The detail image is much larger than lifesize!

New Work - Winter Stroll

Finally something new to show!   This is my first winter piece of the season...where did the time go!  I had planned to have a whole series of winter scenes done this year, but, it just has not happened yet, and now, it may never get done...at least not this year!  I'm dreaming of a white christmas, and this little painting may be the closest I'll get to that living here in central texas!  Oh, it does snow here... usually 2 or 3 times each winter, but, I don't recall having a white christmas as long as I've lived here!  So, I'll just paint a wintery scene instead...less shoveling to deal with, ha!  This is an 8x8 oil on panel. 

"Winter Stroll"

New Work - "Sweet Dreams"

   Dreaming sweet dreams with her favorite dollies; fluffy and baby-soft, this baby centaur fell asleep right where she played in the home garden.   This new centaur painting  oil on 6x8" hardboard panel. 

New Work - Hop Scotch

Here is another centaur child at play! This is an ACEO oil on multimedia art board. I have several centaur paintings in the works right now, so, more to come!

New Work - Shooting Marbles

The centaurs are back! These two boys are getting down on thier knees for a game of marbles! This is an ACEO oil painting on multimedia art board. Check out the ebay listing here;

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New Work - Fantasy & Equine ACEOs

I just finished up these two art cards and listed them on ebay. The first is a pretty sorrel foal investigating an old fallen tree. "Sorrel Foal"

This second is a cute little centaur girl playing games with her favorite doll. "Playing Make-Believe".

These art cards are miniature artworks in trading card format of 2.5"x3.5", and, these two are done in oils on 3/16" thick gessoed birch wood panels.

Beginnings - Childhood Art

Where does it all come from, this affinity for art and especially for drawing and painting horses? I dunno! It has been a passion of mine from my earliest childhood. I have always drawn horses! My family were an airforce family that traveled frequently throughout my childhood, and, one of my favorite pastimes was drawing horses, or, reading horse stories, or, pretending to be a horse! Ha! My mother swears I grew hooves on my knees from playing horse all the time - acting out the stories I read. I also had to illustrate all those wonderful horse stories or make up my own characters, and that is what I did...all the time! In my free time, and, when I was supposed to be studying, even my math tests weren't safe and often had little horses drawn in the margins.

Anyhow, I thought it would be fun (and somewhat painful!) to look at some of that old art I did growing up. Most of it was lost due to all the moving we did, but, I found a few gems and thought I would post these in my blog for a laugh! Two today, more when I can dig them up!

This is the earliest I have and is from first grade....

Please note the brand on his butt! This could use a little tweaking in the composition! Haha!

This one jumps foreward a few years to 9th grade. I was 15yrs old and we were living at Upper Heyford AFB in England. I had a great art teacher, Coach Wiley, who gave me the tools, a few tips of how-to and left me alone to do it! I learned from him how to make my own canvases, from cutting the wood to stretching the canvas and gessoing. I created hand-thrown pottery and learned about firing and glazing...and I created this...

"Black Charger" aprox. 12x18" fired clay with black shoe polish and lacquer. I didn't use an armature (what's that?) so, his legs were a bit saggy on the far side. When I fired the clay, however, the whole sculpture blew up in the kiln...guess I missed an air pocket, lol! Anyway, I glued it all back together and the missing parts in the base rockwork actually added to the character of the rocks, luckily! It could not be fired again to use traditional glazes, so, Coach showed me how to use shoe polish and laquer to put a gorgeous irridescent blue-black finish on it.