Showstoppin Twist

This is my first Acrylic painting on one of my Birch Plywood Panels. It is about 11.5 x 12.5 and was painting with a combination of Open and standard Golden Acrylics. The title is Showstoppin Twist after the foal I am represented. It is based on a photo I took last year during one of my pasture tours. I often visit the foals and get down on their level. With time they will most always come to my camera and see when I am up to, even if quite shy. They may not permit a touch but they will stick their nose into what I am doing.

Merada Spider

Another Starbucks drawing. Why are the feet cut off? I was wanting to focus more on the rider and the way the reins were wrapping around the horses head during a stop and turn.

More Starbucks Series Drawings

QB Cats Jewel

DMAC Marquis Player

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

Charcoal Drawings - High Brow Jackson Series

Here are a few Charcoal drawings I did of the High Brow Jackson over the last few weeks. They are both on about 9x9 drawing paper.

Gouache Study - High Brow Jackson

This is a gouache study from a photograph of High Brow Jackson that was in (but did not sell) the 2011 Futurity Sales 2YO sale. It is a 5x7 on watercolor paper which was started in pencil. I drew and painted this horse from a perspective a bit higher than the photograph was taken so had to make some adjustments, and had to come back and rework some passages to make it work better.

Highbrow Jackson

This is one of my Starbucks series drawings. It was done first in pencil on black paper and then follwed with oil pastel. The subject is Highbrow Jackson from a photo taken during the 2011 Futurity 2YO Sales. I expect to see him as a finalist in the Futurity next year. I recently went to a preview at the Dallas Auction Gallery and saw many great cowboy paintings (others too). A painting of a cowboy stopping and turning his horse as a steer ran by caught my eye. It was done by Otis Dozier in 1976. I was thinking of the that painting when I drew this.

I have created a Ken Burns style video and posted to YouTube: East Texas 100 Acre Wood

Agricultural Forms from 33,000 feet.

As I was flying to and from Albuquerque this past week I saw some of the most amazing geometric patterns with grids and circles in West Texas. This is a gouache painting of a scene. Although contrived it is representative of what I saw.

Northern New Mexican Autumn

This is the beginning of a Northern New Mexico Autumn. The top photo is along the Columbine Trail and the bottom photo is from the highway between Red RIver and Questa, New Mexico.

Old Truck sent out to pasture.

This was taken in a lot in Questa, NM. With the permission of the owners,my Dad and I went onto this lot to photograph this old Truck. The horses on the property saw us and came over to investigate. In one image you will see two of the horses behind the truck.

Two Views of the Ranchos De Taos Church

Cutting Horse Pastel - 2005 Hickory Molly Mac

This is a 2005 pastel based on a photo taken during the first Texas Cutting Futurity in the Waco venue. This is an 15 x 22 inch pastel with deckle edges on left and right sides. The original is available for sale to US collectors. Giclee canvas prints are also available.

Sketchbook: Coffee Shop Sketching

This one is in a larger sketchbook. I drew this drinking Starbucks coffee in the Atrium Cafe while waiting for my DMA C3 Class.

Sketchbook: Coffee Shop Sketching

Here is another but it was done at the laundramat.

Sketchbook: Coffee Shop Sketching

This is one of a series of small sketchbook cutting horse drawings done while drinking my Friday evening Iced Coffee at Starbucks. It is from photos taken during one of the Ft Worth NCHA events.

Starbucks Pastel Drawing: Caught on a stop

Caught in a Stop
This Nupastel drawing was done on black paper at Starbucks on an outdoor table while I was having my Friday evening iced coffee. I drew it as if I had caught the action as the photographer had taken a photo at that instant with a strobe.

Thursday at the DMA Center for Creative Connections: Paper Sculpture

This week in the Center for Creative Connections we created sculptures from strips of extra thick poster board.
I built this horse head complete with ears of dual focus and star strip snip (face markings).

This is an archive from July 28 which I forgot to post:

Tonight we had a great project in C3 with visiting artist Margaret Meehan, creating soft sculptures with cheap teddy bears. I created this one which I called horse heaven based on a little horse angel l found in the stuffing of the soft toy.

Artist Encounters in C3 - Reality to Abstract

Yarn and Yellow Chairs
This Thursday in our C3 Artist Encounter at the DMA we created a yarn installation in the C3 Gallery and then worked on drawings on Tracing Paper using colored pencils. I took my two best home and created a mixed media collage/Acrylic painting.