"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.

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.

New Work - Mr. Eye Opener

Calling it done!
"Mr. Eye Opener" 12x16 inches, alkyd oil painting

New Work - Knight's Advantage

This one has been in the works for a long time!  Originally, it was done intended to be part of a mural project, which is why the original was painted as it was.  A year or two later, I decided the painting had enough going for it to try and turn it into a better painting...which meant it would have to be completely repainted.  The original composition was very cramped with all the figures touching or running off the edges of the panel, a fault that could not be fixed without starting all over from scratch with a larger board...but, I didn't want to start all over with it...just wanted to make it better with what I had.  My solution, was to glue a linen liner to the panel that would add 2" all around, and, then paint the liner as if it was part of the original painting, thus adding a little more breathing space around the composition.  See how it was done in this work-in-progress thread from Wet Canvas.

http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=925512

and here is the final painting;

...and some detail pics

New Work - Red Roan Pegasus

I just finished this one for a swap.  It is 9x12 on canvas.

Click HERE to see a slideshow of this painting as it was painted.

Here it is in its new frame, about to go in its shipping box.

WIP - Pronghorns

This is one I just started today, but, I have done a bit of researching and studying to get the anatomy down and to make sure I don't do something silly in my composition like make the pronghorns jump a fence...lol!  (Pronghorns do not jump!)   Anyway, this is just the start and even this drawing will likey undergo some changes before I get too much farther into this. 

This was my intial sketch that inspired the paintings.. I'm not re-creating this in the painting.  Rather, I am drawing a similar but differant image.

Here I started drawing onto my hardboard panel using soft vine charcoal.  I then went over the vine charcoal with the hard charcoal pencil.

the finished drawing...

and, the roughed-ing under painting.  More to come soon!