Category Archives: bucking horses

Three For New Year’s Eve…daily painting # 615

Thanks to the sage advice of  artist, mentor  and good friend, John Farnsworth, I started this daily Three for New Year's Evepainting blog 2 years ago on Jan. 1.  How those 2 years have flashed by, and here we are, with painting # 615 and heading into 2013!  I thought it fitting that I paint horses to celebrate this anniversary, since horses are my very favourite subject matter.  The daily painting discipline though has surely broadened my range and honed my skills.  It’s opened my eyes to new things and brought me many new friends, via the magic of the internet.  So thanks to each and every one of you who have visited my web-site, my blog or my real life!  Thanks for your comments, likes, and your unflagging support.  Guess we may as well carry on! Here’s wishing everyone Joy and Peace and Light in 2013.

Truckin’ on Through

Remember Bruce’s Beautiful Broncs, one of my “dailies” from late summer? Well this is them again.  Pacing with nervous energy in the morning before the rodeo, they bunch together like the herd animals they are, the air absolutely crackling with their collective power.  Horses rock.

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Manes & Ears

If you’ve spent much time around horses, you’ll have noticed how sensitive and expressive their ears are.  Capable of swivelling pretty much 360 degrees, and perking, flattening, flopping and pinning, they’re like barometers of these beautiful animal’s every thought and intention.  Having said all of that, I don’t think we have any idea of the extent of the information horses receive and send via their exquisitely beautiful ears.

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Paint 2

Having done my “painterly ” paint a couple of days ago, I tried to bring that to my usual, more representational style. That always “tightens” the results, but I think I did manage to let  the paint just do what it does without interfering too much.  I’d like to try it again, this time allowing for more pure colour to remain. 

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July,

One really important thing to my style of watercolour is the concept of “negative space”, which is clearly illustrated here in a portrait of a white bucking horse.  In order to depict this subject in watercolour, I have to have a really good idea not only where my paint will go (or NOT go),  but how much paint, and in the case of the white parts, no paint at all!  Does all this make any sense at all to anyone but me?  Ah well, I hope you enjoy the painting anyway.

Bad Hair Every Day

Ah, my favourite subject again today….bucking horses.  One of the main reasons being, that they’re so dishevelled  and “wild” looking; horses in their natural state.  It’s fun to try and get that tangled hair and  and wary demeanour into a painting, especially when there’s lots of light involved.These guys were athletes performing at last week’s Medicine Hat Stampede. 

SOLD
 
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Stampede News

Well today, there was no time to paint, so all you get is a photo.  It’s the 125th Anniversary of the Medicine Hat Stampede and my house is full of people.  Great and wonderful people.  Family and friends.  We had a great day; the weather is absolutely perfect, and there was never a dull moment. 

Because of the Anniversary, the Stampede is having a reunion of all the past royalty, so this town is absolutely full to the brim with beautiful cowgirls of every vintage.  They took up 2 city blocks in the parade this morning, mostly on horseback, and were truly a sight to behold. One of them is my darling friend Terri Mappin (whose photography blog is attached to this blog of mine) which is why she and her hubby Brad and their 2 little “dudes” are staying here at my house. Many others of those girls are well-known to me as well,  and beloved because I’ve known them all their lives, or they worked for me in my store, or both!  
I sure hope somebody got some photos in the parade; I was too busy gawking and tearing up, so all you get is another of my favourite subjects….bucking horses as they moved into their pens at the grounds.

Bruce’s Beautiful Broncs

My friend Bruce Flewelling is the stock contractor who supplies bucking horses to the Ranch Rodeo at Nanton….among lots of others.  What a lovely, fit-looking band of horses, with lots of roans (which are fun to paint because you can paint them pink and purple, blue and green.) But when it was time to buck, they nearly came unglued.  I think we’ll be seeing quite a few of them at the finals if they keep performing like that. 
SOLD

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Sunbathed

Today’s painting is larger than the usual, and was just so much fun to paint.  My favourite subject and the prettiest light.  We didn’t get much of that here today …lots of liquid sunshine!  I’m so lucky; that meant I got to spend most of the day in my studio.  Hope you all made good use of the rainy day as well,

4 X 15″ on watercolour board

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