Category Archives: western art

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

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Art Show @ The Hyatt

Well, I risked life and limb and managed to find
(a) downtown Calgary 
(b) the Hyatt Hotel!!!

Got my booth set up in the gorgeous Sandstone Lobby, and am tickled pink to be here. What a beautiful art show we have going!
 So for today, this is all you get.  Summer and life have gotten in the way of my daily painting practice, but maybe I’ll get a chance to paint here today.  Come by & see me if you’re in town! 

White Horse Series-#2

OK, I know this looks pretty simple, but I’m not happy with how much anatomical detail I got in the horse.  It’s like swimming upstream for me to NOT put in details like joints and muscles, dips and curves.  I’m trying for a very stylized horse, and I drew with a black ink pen; there was no erasing or going back. Sigh. Oh well, the painting part was lotsa fun.  

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

With the Wind

Betcha when I didn’t post this several days ago, you thought you’d seen the last of it…..that I’d thrown it in the garbage. Right!?   It was very polite of you not to ask. 
 It’s here, but I’m not delighted with it.  I may do it again, (hoping for different results) ….wait a minute, that’s the definition of insanity isn’t it? 

16 X 20″ on watercolour board

Heirloom Chaps

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

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

The Wind_ painting stage

 I dithered quite awhile; looking at photos of wild skies and at the gloomy, heavy sky outside my windows!  Finally had to get at it.  I found a 2″ flat brush and started in with the orange and yellow across the mid sky, and dragged purple and blue in below that, down through the horses, to the horizon. Fun…and stressful! Banged in some grass while it was damp so that the horizon wouldn’t have too many hard edges.

Now for the big racing black cloud overhead.  I slopped in a ton of paint, and then I mixed green and poured it over top and let it run.  Then orange along the bottom edge, and flung in with my brush.  Yikers. I think I’m ruining it, but we won’t know till it’s finished, will we.

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

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $215 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Two for the Show

Today’s piece is another demo from the workshop on the weekend. Everybody knows that horses are my “deal”,  and I’m usually asked to show how I approach painting them in watercolour. Really though, subject matter doesn’t  matter; the principles are the same whether it’s landscapes, flowers or horses.  The important thing is that we feel connected to our subject. 

10 X 14″ on 200 lb paper

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $400 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

New Project

This is a new project which I started drawing last week.  There’s my Polly peeking over the other horses to see if I’ve brought cookies. Since I was out there for a visit today, this feels really immediate.  However, I’m going to paint if full-blown summer, maybe even some wild flowers.

Hope to post the finished product tomorrow.

11 X 20″ on watercolour board