Just Passing Through

oil on canvas paper, 9" x 12"

Here's another in my animal sketch series, a galloping horse.

Victor

 

oil on panel, 12" x 12"

This painting is in tribute to my great friend Marilyn.  She is a total horse lover, and Victor was her quarter horse sweetheart.  Quite a handsome fella, and once upon a time, he was a race horse.

Mare with Mustard

 

acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20"

This painting was meant as a companion piece to another horse painting I did a while back, a portrait entitled "Just Horsing Around."  

Just Horsing Around

 

acrylic on canvasboard, 12" x 12"

Playing with color here on a rather vivid horse portrait, I got carried away and had to put him back in the paddock, as it were.  I do like what the pink and blue do to the chestnut color of the horse, though.  I hope he forgives me for messing with him.

Icelandic Horse

acrylic on canvas, 30" x 15"

I've been playing with a new limited palette lately, the one for this portrait made up of Prussian blue, napthol red, cad yellow light, and titanium white.  

A Monumental Love

oil on canvas, 12" x 24"

This is the finished painting of the one I posted in progress a few days ago, under the working title of  "The Session."  I've now renamed it with the original title I had in mind but had been too timid to claim, until a friend of mind saw the painting and helped me get over that modesty.  Victor, former racehorse, and his beloved friend Marilyn at Covelo Ranch having one of their sessions in a big, grassy field.  

The Session

oil on canvas, 12" x 24"

This painting is perhaps 90% done, a training session Marilyn is having with Victor out in the field at Covelo Ranch.  I used a photo taken in the spring when the grass was green and the temperature cool, unlike now when the heat here is unbearably hot, over 100 degrees Fahrenheit much of the time. 

Victory Walk

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 24"

This is one of the few horse paintings I've done to date.  Just trying to get more familiar with horse shapes and this one in particular, I already have another in mind to do of him.  This is my friend Marilyn's handsome boy Victor, a Thoroughbred and former race horse.  I dare say he's much happier now, living on a big ranch with someone like Marilyn to love and care for him.

Zen Barn

acrylic on canvas, 12" x 24"

This was done from a drive-by shooting yesterday near the little town of Bodega, as this barn is situated such that there is no place to paint it on site from this angle.  My trusty camera captured it, though, and I set the time at either dusk or dawn -- could be either, from the pink horizon.  

Victor

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

A quick little iPad sketch of my friend Marilyn's thoroughbred horse Victor, done from a photo I had taken on their property the other day.

Wild Horse

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

Done from a photo I found online just 'cause I wanted to.

Paint

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

Chileno Valley Horses

iPad painting, 10" x 14"

Yamdrok Tso Lake

acrylic on canvas, 8" x 16"

Driving through the mountains of Tibet, the lake in the mid-ground is considered one of three sacred lakes in Tibet, loved for its turquoise color.