"Ready" Original Painting

"Ready" 12 x 16 alkyd oil painting.  Original available!

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A beautiful blue roan Quarter Horse stands quietly waiting for you to take up his reins, mount up, and, head out for a pleasant day exploring.

New Work - "Trust"

"Trust - Children of Chiron 1"

16 X 20 Oil on panel

Prints are available of this unique painting CLICK HERE

This is a commissioned book cover illustration for author Tabitha Darling.  Her book is now avaliable on Amazon.   BUY BOOK HERE!

I have completely ignored this blog for ... um ... 6 years!   Well I guess I'm thinking about it again so maybe I will try to bring it back to life.  This will (once again) be devoted to just my artwork and related topics that interest or inspire me.  I hope to add more on a regular basis starting now.

  At this time I spend most of my online time on facebook ... mostly just wasting time browsing my time line and sharing cute animal pics, funny memes, and infuriating political crap.  Oh, I also share my art there too when I have new work to show.  Facebook is getting boring though so it's time to move back to my blog instead.

I have two new commissioned paintings, one finish and one in the final touches.  I'll be showing those here in the next couple days.  I also have two new commissions that I will begin work on soon and I will show progress on this here also.  In the mean time as I piddle around here and try to relearn how to use my old blog ... here is a nice commissioned horse portrait I did a few years ago.

This is "Buster" 14 X 18 oil painting.

More new work

Here are some more newbies.  These are available for sale on ebay at www.KerryOriginals.com

"Alabaster Beauty" 2.5x3.5

"Christmas Gift" 5x7

"Christmas Star" 4x6

"Spirited Black" 2.5x3.5

"Grullo Mustang" 4x6

New work - "Dappled Beauty"

Now on ebay!

"Dappled Beauty" 6x8 inches oil

I also relisted this one for the last time on ebay...and at a reduced price!  It will only be there until Mon. afternoon. 

"Donkey foal" 4x4 inch oil

New Work - "Faithful"

"Faithful"  6x8 inches alkyd oil painting on Art & Enns panel

Patient and steadfast when wilder hooves would fly, with a spirit undaunted, but, bound in trust and love, he is beautiful, strong, and, faithful.

This new small format oil painting is available for sale on ebay  HERE! 

New Work - Fleet Pronghorns

I'm playing catch-up again!  This was finished a little while back now, but, I am just now getting it posted here as a new finished work!  Here are the final images of the finished painting;  
"Fleet Pronghorns" 12x16 oil on panel.

WIP - Pronghorns

I have this very nearly complete now.  I need to go in and do a little cleaning up and some detailing on the pronghorns yet, then, just sign it and it's done! 

WIP Pronghorns 2

Here's an update on this painting.  I have gone back into the background and built it up with textured paint.  I'm using alkyd oils on this with Liquin Impasto medium to add texture.  Next up will be to establish all those legs and build up the background around them.  Then I will go into the pronghorns and get them finished up with the textured paint, and, finally finish off the foreground.  Here are picks of it as it stands today.

...and a close-up to show the brushwork

New Work - "Desert Gallop"

Here's another OSWOA  oil painting, some arabians streaking across the desert...
4"x6" "Desert Gallop"

Reworking - Dad & Cockleburr

There have been many paintings that have languished in my closet unfinished, because I just could not make them work. Some I just lost interest in, perhaps because some thing about them bothered me that I just could not see at that time. One such piece, a recent portrait of my dad, had an obnoxious background of cherry red to dark red in swirls and patches...what was I thinking! I was mostly pleased with how my dad and his horse Cockleburr turned out, but, just short of actually finishing this painting, I set it aside, unable to complete it.

This is after I had started changing the background. The actual color was much more red than this photo shows!

The background was actually the reason I did the painting. Yes, I wanted to do a portrait of my dad...I had been thinking of doing this one of him with his horse for a couple years, in fact, but, the main reason I finally started the painting was to explore a series of equine portraiture utilizing bright jewel-tone backgrounds. I thought this would be a good opportunity to do dad's painting and stay within the parameters of this series. I'd already done a few other horse paintings using bright blues, greens, and violets for the backgrounds that came out pretty nice...I just needed a good red next! So I did my dad in red. Hmmm. O.K. It took me a few months to just let it stew, still unfinished. I finally decided, that series parameters or not, that red background just had to go!

So, I decided it would have to be a full landscape background instead. I chose to use a scene from the area near to where we lived when we had our horses back in the early '70s; the Tularosa Basin between Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, and Tularosa, New Mexico. My dad was in the military then and we kept our horses at the base riding stable. We often rode out into the desert north of the base, and, later after dad retired, we lived in Tularosa to the northeast. This scene in the portrait places him in that general area north of Holloman AFB and shows Tularosa as a line of trees at the base of the mountain, Sierra Blanca on the far right side of the painting. Today, this same area is filled with pistacheo groves, so, this scene in my painting is actually a view into the past, circa 1972!

Creating is an ongoing process of learning to see so that we as artists can correct any errors and make our art perfect, or at least, as perfect as we can! Unfortunately, it takes time and practice to learn this and we don't always see those errors until the artwork has long been finished. I'm still not entirely happy with this painting of my Dad. It has come a long way from my first 'vision' of it, but, too much time has passed since beginning this portrait and all I see now are its faults. I feel the background is much better, but, now the overall painting is not quite there...again! There is much about this that I still like, enough not to trash it, or, attempt a major repainting. Therefore, as it sometime goes, this is one more painting that I may have to call done. Time to go on to the next project.

This is the final version.  Not a good photo as there is a lot of glare on the lower left.  I find it hard to get good images of larger paintings.  Here are some close-ups.