New Watercolors

Hard Stop I

Hard Stop at Super Stakes 6x8 watercolor $40 plus $5 S&H
based on photographs taken during Super Super Stakes.

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The Treatment

The Treatment 6x8 watercolor in 8x10 blue mat Gifted Based on photograph taken of vet treating foal in stall.

Starbucks drawings and painting

The first two are drawings with a possible later painting in mind. I routinely head over to Starbucks on Friday evenings when I don't have something else planned, claim a table, and get a the dark roast of the day as a pour-over. I then set up to draw. Usually I only get one done but this Friday I got 3 done. All were done a 5x7 watercolor paper.

This started as a drawing done as Starbucks, and then brought home and turned into a painting in open acrylic

The Colors of Doc O Lena Twist: Two Foals

Tut- Doc O Lena Twist x LS Shania Doc, owned by Karen Milan.
Toby- Doc O Lena Twist x Cordura
Dam is Sorrel and both Toby and Cordura are owned by Austria Arnold





Tut was named after the King Tut Exhibit which was at the Dallas Museum of Art this past year.







Toby is trying to steal some Alfalfa from the mouth of my horse, Squirt. Cordura the Dam is in the center.

Equine Art: Mini Oil Pastels

This is the Image which was my model
3.5"x5" Oil Pastel on Ampersand Aquabord.
3.5"x5" Oil Pastel on Ampersand Pastel Bord. The big challenge with these was depicting detail with such a broad stick of pastel.

Wednesday Evening images at the ranch

Caught in a Headshake


Colt by Going To The Doc, a buckskin AQHA Calf Roping Champion. This is the most recent foal. Only one more due this season. Be watching in late June.

Every now and then you need to try something different. This self portrait with foal was taken from a hand held camera at nearly ground level.

Rainbow over yearlings. The rainbow base is on my two favorite yearlings

Moonrise in the night clouds

New Mare in the Pasture

This past Thursday a new mare was introduced to the broodmare pasture. This foal tries to introduce herself but is told "leave me alone kid."

Blue Roan mare has sort of adopted the youngsters in the pasture and tries to be protective. She blocks off the foal and tells the new mare to stay away.
She then escorts her charges away from the interloper
The new mare
Blue roan watches to see that New Mare keeps her distance.

Pasture Life at the end of April

Toby enjoying the late evening
South and West facing foals
What are you doing on the ground?

Last week I posted some foal photos from the back pasture, last evening I went to the back pasture and took some more photos of Toby.

Hey, What are you guys doing over there?


Running through the clover?

Running with the older gelding, Dam is in the distance in the upper right.
Camera Curious

Front Pasture Foals

In the last 15 minutes of light I headed out to the front pasture to photograph the most recent filly foal which was born last week. I caught her running to her dam.

This is another photo of the first foal of the year. She is also a filly
I caught these two fillies visiting. They will soon be really tight buddies

Toby at 2 Weeks

I took some more baby photos of Toby Sunday evening. He is 2 weeks old now and getting more independent. He was very interested in what I was doing with that camera and came too close to focus several times.

Stars' Filly

This foal was born last Thursday (1 week old on Saint Pats Day). The dam here is watching me as a photograph her filly. While I was photographing this foal, the other resident of the pasture, a mare named Unquestionable Twist, was tugging at my collar and licking the back of my neck.

New Arrival

Cordura shows off her new colt. Arrived today between 1-3pm.

Foal Fun: A Little Horseplay

About 7:30 or so as sun gets low on the horizon, the foals finish their naps and come out to play.

A Little Horse Boxing as one of the dams supervises.

Foal Fun: No Cattle to Cut but there is always the dogs.

Colt locks onto dog.

Dog breaks to the right.

New Dun Colt and two Inquisitive Vizslas

On Sunday, July 5, I brought my camera so that I could get a photo of the last and most recent foal born at the ranch. I had brought them into the roundpen to get them out of the hot sun.

While I was in the roundpen the two Vizsla dogs were not to happy that I had excluded them from the fun and were doing everything they could to get in. You will find a short photographic story in this Gallery.

Memorial Day Weekend

After I posted those last images we had two new arrivals.


This is Rocket. She is by Going to the Doc and is destined to be a Barrel Racer.


This filly is by Doc O Lena Twist. She has a name but I don't yet have it.

This is Remy, a young Vizsla dog. He was on alert being around all the mares the walk down to the lower pasture. You can see more of these foals photos in this gallery.