Tag Archives: horses
Painting of the Week – Heading Home
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...
Painting of the Week – Study of a Saddled Horse
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...
Painting of the Week – Starting a Painting
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...
Painting of the Week – Working Force
Motion
Sometimes I get off track while I'm painting, like yesterday. When that happens, I can look at my best paintings, like ”Working...
Painting of the Week – Gallant Spirits
Using Gray
Gallant Spirits (no longer available) brings back memories of a planned fall photo shoot near Kindred, North Dakota. The su...
Painting of the Week – Hold the Reins
Changing your Viewpoint
This piece is part of several efforts I made to create a certain painting. This part fascinated me as well as ...
Painting of the Week – Riders
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...
Painting of the Week – Heading for the Hills
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...
Painting of the Week – Friendly Maintenance
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...
Painting of the Week – Tethered
Allow yourself to make tough changes for improvement
I can hardly believe it – Tethered was accepted into the American Watercolor Soci...