Mustang Filly

Just finished this girl up yesterday, from a photo provided by the Bureau of Land Management's online adoption gallery. The info listed with her was "2 year old 14 hand pinto filly # 9641,  captured 11/27/12 from Little Owyhee HMA (Nevada)". 6X6 soft pastel on Pastelmat (heavy card stock pastel surface):

Heading to the Randy Higbee 6X6 show in Costa Mesa California! Show opens in December.

Happy Goat

I haven't been posting much because, well, I have done a bunch of failed paintings recently. I've been told this means I am on the edge of a breakthrough, hopefully this is true because it sure has been a fight lately. Somehow in the midst of all this this goat happened:

Heading to the Randy Higbee Gallery 6X6 show in Costa Mesa, California. The show opens in December.

 Photo reference for this provided by PaintMyPhoto member Lenora Melville. Thank you Lenora!

Bling for sale

Ha ha, that's right, I have some bling for sale. Marwari horse, photo reference by Manu Sharma, all framed up and ready to hang on your wall straight from the box:

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Rocks

I love Utah's canyon country. I could spend the rest of my days exploring the canyons and rims and never get over the beauty of it, the peace, the vastness. I have big L love for the seas of slick rock, the ravens casting their shadows on the cliffs, the breeze through the junipers. Any time I get to spend time there I am taking photos, and have a large collection now of potential painting references :) This one is from a Lake Powell trip:

I love the glow of the late afternoon sun on the red rock, and how it casts the orange light onto surrounding surfaces. Magical!

"Powell Rocks"

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Towards Telluride

An 8X8 pastel from a ride into the Lizardhead Wilderness last summer. Looking east from the Kilpacker trail to the Yellow Mountains:

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DPW Judge's Pick!

I am thrilled that my painting "Dalton" was selected as a judge's pick in August's Daily Paintworks contest!

Speed Goat

Thanks to fellow artist Michelle Grant for a great pronghorn nickname: "speed goat", somehow I had never heard it before. Although the pronghorn is not a goat, it's a unique animal that is closely related to antelope, they sorta have a goaty look about them. And talk about fast! I have tried to chase them on horseback and it was laughable. Pronghorns are the fastest animal on hooves. The reference for this is a crop from a larger photo available for artist use by the USFWS Mountain Prairie division, which has tons of gorgeous photos on their Flickr album.