horses Archives - Ellen Jean Diederich Studios

07 Jun

Painting of the Week – Heading Home

June 7, 2023
By Laurellee

Add a Beautiful Sunset I remember riding behind these horses with friends. That day, the Arizona desert was a very dull brown, but I h...

20 Apr

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Painting of the Week – Study of a Saddled Horse

April 21, 2023
By Laurellee

Warm up Paintings Artists can warm up their paint brushes. It’s good to get the right mix of water to paint, your timing down, and adj...

03 Feb

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Painting of the Week – Starting a Painting

February 3, 2023
By Laurellee

Connecting the Subject to the Background To get color into a watercolor, you add it in the first layer. Part of the goal is to get the...

26 Jan

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Painting of the Week – Working Force

January 26, 2023
By Laurellee

Motion Sometimes I get off track while I'm painting, like yesterday. When that happens, I can look at my best paintings, like ”Working...

13 Oct

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Painting of the Week – Gallant Spirits

October 13, 2022
By Laurellee

Using Gray Gallant Spirits (no longer available) brings back memories of a planned fall photo shoot near Kindred, North Dakota. The su...

09 Jun

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Painting of the Week – Hold the Reins

June 9, 2022
By Laurellee

Changing your Viewpoint This piece is part of several efforts I made to create a certain painting. This part fascinated me as well as ...

17 May

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Painting of the Week – Riders

May 17, 2022
By Laurellee

Replace Details with Colored Shapes Instead of waiting patiently in line for a desert ride in Arizona, as usual, I went gaga with my c...

14 Oct

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Painting of the Week – Heading for the Hills

October 14, 2021
By Laurellee

Telling a Story I stood with my camera on a 10 foot square deck surrounded on three sides by horses in Medora. In front of me was a bi...

30 Sep

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Painting of the Week – Friendly Maintenance

September 30, 2021
By Laurellee

Dry Brush Texture Have you ever seen a horse get shoed? It’s hard to relate to having a shoe nailed into your hoof but this horse didn...

22 Apr

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Painting of the Week – Tethered

April 22, 2021
By Laurellee

Allow yourself to make tough changes for improvement I can hardly believe it – Tethered was accepted into the American Watercolor Soci...

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