Showing posts with label horses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horses. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Last multi-photo post - probably maybe?

I'm posting 11 (eleven) photos of my paintings today - sorry. I hope to resume posting one or two at a time from now on.  


If you have a PC you can see the photos of the paintings more clearly if you right-click on the photo then choose view in a new window. I dislike the "new" blog method of the slideshow as I can't see the details as we could "before".


Skatebboarder - red tee shirt
12 x 16  Oils on Gessoed panel

Skatebboarder - black tee shirt
9 x 12  Oils on "canvas paper"

Skatebboarder - red sweatshirt
9 x 12   Oils on "canvas paper"
 I have the greatest respect and admiration for the people that will put their bodies on a skateboard. And to see the "tricks" that most do is sometimes beyond belief!  

The "canvas paper" that I used is advertised as gessoed canvas sheets in a tablet form. I had to tape the sheets to a large piece of masonite to hold the sheet in place while I painted. 




Out by a mile
11x13  Oils on gessoed panel

Horse Riding 2
8.5 x 11  Oils on gessoed panel
A "study" for a larger painting.

Horse Riding 1
12 x 16  Oils on canvas board

Wanna Play Some Ball?
9 x 12  Canvas panel

This young lady with an attitude might (probably) embarrass a "studly" male baseball player.

Truck Drivin Man
16 x 20   Oils on canvas panel
(I need to finish the sign on the truck door! - DUHHH)

Hey Battah Battah - SWING
12 x 16  Oils on canvas panel
The title is a taunt (chatter?) that the opposing team calls out when a batter is in the batters box. Especially if the batter has a tendency to swing on command. :-)

Mother and daughter at the beach
16 x 20  Oils on canvas panel
MANY thanks to Jilly Bennett and her blog Menton Daily Photo

Lookee Here Podnah
16 x 20  Oils on canvas panel
An "experienced" cowboy making his point (no pun intended) to a younger buckaroo.

Monday, January 31, 2011

Jeb - young cowboy and his horse

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Jeb - young cowboy and his horse  16x20   Oils on canvas panel

Here is Jeb taking a breather after a long mornings work doing cowboy stuff.  I haven't a clue what cowboys do except mend fences, herd livestock and ride horses.  No offense, I just don't know what modern cowboys do when they do what it is that they do.

They probably don't know (or care) what it was that I did when I say that I was a programmer.

But these cowboys that I've been painting (and some more coming soon) are friendly to or at least tolerate "dudes" like me who have ridden a horse once in my life. The horse had the most fun in that situation almost 50 years ago! :-)

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Cowboy roping wild mustang

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Cowboy roping wild mustang  11x14  Oils on masonite panel

This was a fun painting to make. I didn't think that I could make a reasonably believable image of a horse. I've tried once before and it wasn't very pleasant to look at! :-)

I think that I've made a "REASONABLE" duo of horses and one cowboy. This was quickly done in about (maybe) three hours - I really don't know but it just came out of my brushes with only a few "ooopsies". (I usually have many).

By the way, in my painting the horse is gray, not bluish! I needed to get that said. :-)

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Exercising the pony

$100.00 plus shipping
Exercising the pony  12x16  Oil on masonite

I think that I saw something like this in a TV program or video on the internet - honestly I don't know where the vision for this painting came from. Maybe it was indigestion. Doesn't matter, it was fun to try to paint it.

I think that I shouldn't do animals. I get "close" to being accurate in proportions but there's  s-o-m-e-t-h-i-n-g wrong s-o-m-e-w-h-e-r-e.  

I rode a horse one time - fifty (YES 50) years ago. I decided then that I preferred cars. Still do.