This is a piece I’ve been working on all week. It’s large…30″ X 20″ and it’s been a challenge to draw. However, we’re off and running now!
This was from a photo I took at the Ranch Horse Competition this summer, and I loved the body language of both cowboy and horse. Though they are still, you can feel the intensity of the horseman as they wait their turn. The horse though, seems to be saying “We’ll be fine man; just chill!”
Will post the finished product when it’s ready.
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Canyon Road in Santa Fe, the “City Different”, is a quaint 250year old street which is now home to many beautiful art galleries. This is an alley which opens up to Canyon Road, and shows the gorgeous old adobe buildings so typical of the area. On the far right you can see the exposed handmade bricks of a wall from which the adobe mud has eroded.
This is such an organic and eco-friendly building style, I often wonder why it isn’t adopted on a larger scale.
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Ahhh, the blue skies and ancient adobe walls of New Mexico are calling me, and the closer we get to winter, the more that bell rings in my head! I notice a lot of restless Canadians these days….pacing and gazing southward. I imagine there are a lot of similarities between our behavior and that of our migratory bird friends.
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Here’s a larger project that I’ve been working on for most of the week, amongst other diversions. After a summer of fooling around, it’s time for me to get to work!
This beautiful horse won the ranch horse competition in the Hat this summer and I wanted to paint him at work, all geared up in silver spade bit, handbraided bosal and romel rein, and handmade horsehair mecate.
The honouring of those traditional art forms is one of the side benefits of modern horsemanship, and I for one, am very appreciative of all of it.
16 x 14″ on300lb Fabriano
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This is the detail on one of the pairs of beautiful old chaps handed down to my friend Janet from her grandparent’s generation. The Brewsters are an institution in the guiding and mountaineering of our National Parks here in Alberta, and these chaps are just a sample of the historical treasures that their family preserves. SOLD
5 X 7″ on 200 lb paper
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Back to my old approach tonight; a representational close up of my friend Dale’s beautiful roan gelding and his handmade gear.
5 X 7″ on 200lb paper
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How about these characters? They inhabit a beautiful artisans shelf in my living room. Given to me by my dear cousin, they’re truly works of art. Made by a local woman out of gourds that she grows herself, they’re over a foot tall, magnificently carved, painted and befeathered.To me they look like tribal people…He’s the chief, and his little wife is not nearly as impressed with him as he is with himself. She’s taken the time out today to lay out her opinion of him. I told you there are dramas going on in this house!
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I wonder if when I’m away or out of the house, if these toys come to life and have on-going dramas and adventures-maybe even a romance or two. Probably not; Possum would undoubtedly put a swift end to any such nonsense. It wouldn’t be pretty.
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I have a very special bookshelf, made by a local artist out of Diamond Willow, and it is loaded with many of my favourite “reads” of all time. The top shelf however, is devoted to an assortment of “toys” that have come to reside with me over the years. Mostly these are gifts, some (the wooden zebra and the handmade Melissa Weiss bear) I bought for myself. My theory is that it’s important to own and celebrate our inner child. Wouldn’t you agree?
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