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 Lisa Carlsen on Kahlua
by Debbie Goldring
16" x 20" pastel
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"This is one of the first pieces I had done of Canadian Equestrian Team members. The artwork appeared in the 1990 Winter issue of Equesport Canada. Lisa and Kahlua went onto compete in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea and won gold at the 1987 Pan American Games. I was thrilled when Lisa purchased this pastel from me in 1990!
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 Sponge Bath
by Debbie Goldring
11" x 14" pastel
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"This piece was inspired during a visit to Woodbine Racetrack. This 2 year old filly was having a “sponge bath” after her morning workout, on a hot humid morning. I love the dramatic background of the open barn door behind and the strong morning sun on her face." |
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 Arabian head portrait
by Sheri Gordon
9" x 12" pencil
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"I've always loved doing tight realistic detail. In the beginnings I was too chicken to try mediums other than pencil. This was one of my most popular pencil drawings." |
 Phases of My Moods
by Sheri Gordon
24" x 36" acrylic
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"Having gone through a period of growth and change and experimentation with my art, it was nice to come 'home' again, using the tight details I love but expressing my inner emotions, the way true art is supposed to be. It also shows how I have matured in my mediums as well, and can now work well in all mediums." |
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 Misty
by Lisa Guarino
16" x 20" pastel
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"This was one of my first portraits I did when I first got my art business going.
"Misty" was a pony at the farm I took riding lessons at. A family who had two girls owned her. The girls rode her in the farm's Horse shows. The older sister rode her in the older kids division, while the younger sister entered the younger kids division. She was a great pony and the family loved her.
My riding instructor commissioned me to create a portrait of "Misty" to give to them as a special gift. The girls loved the portrait. The girls have since grown and moved on, but "Misty" will always have a special place in there hearts. " |
 Monster
by Lisa Guarino
8" x 10" pastel
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"This is a portrait of "javamonster". I did this portrait for a recent online show. I chose one reference photo that appealed to me. I liked the movement and energy in it. I have been working with pastels for a number of years. I started working with pastels when I first started doing portraits in the early 1990's. I enjoy the medium a lot. I have some amount of loosen to my work. Pastels work well with my style. Over the years I've improved my pastel paintings. I experiment and add a variety of colors. I work in layers and slowly build the image to it's final. I like the movement and color range in this portrait. " |
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 Roping Horse
by Juliet Harrison
4"x 6 1/8" Traditional Gelatin Silver Print
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"At the time that I shot this I was fascinated by containing the extreme action in a small frame. Stopping it in a moment of intensity, making the viewer hold their breath an instant. All of the elements in this shot; the expression of the horse, the dust, the flag, and the gazes of the spectators all work together to do that." |
 Waterfall
by Juliet Harrison
8 1/2" x 10 1/2" Traditional Gelatin Silver Print
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"This piece is one of a series that I have been working on that I call Equine Landscapes and Topographicals. My desire is to isolate elements of the horses body and to allow the viewer to see these as more than horse. By bringing the viewer in close so that the image speaks to something larger than the subject matter, something more universal. Coat patterns, muscle structures and body shapes recalls what the eye sees in the broader landscape. In this image in particular, I saw the mane echoing the constant fall in a powerful waterfall." |
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 Brigand Silk
by Carol Biering Hendrix
16" x 20" oil
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"This horse was a Quarter horse and a heck of a runner. He won the Kansas and Rainbow Futurities in the 1980’s at Ruidoso Downs and had set a track record winning the Rainbow Futurity. He had qualified for the All American Futurity and was poised to win the Triple Crown of Quarter Horse racing with a win in the All American. As luck would have it, we had Horses in training with a trainer who was stalled down the shed row from Brigand Silk. So I had the opportunity to take pictures of him before the big race. The Quarter Horse world was poised to crown the next Triple Crown winner but, as so often happens with the great runners (Barbaro, Ruffian), Brigand Silk suffered a devastating bout with colic two days before The race and had to be humanely destroyed. And we are left to wonder why and what potential is never realized with these great horses. I sold this painting to the owners who eventually sold it to a well known Quarter Horse breeder and it is now hanging in Kentucky." |
 Playing Catch Up
by Carol Biering Hendrix
12" x 16" oil
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"When I worked at the racetrack in Texas, I was able to move around the track during race days so I could to get some nice pictures for paintings and for owners. This painting was of a nice paint mare named Playing Catch Up. She lived up to her name because she always left the gate late but almost always finished first. This trait often gave the owners a case of the jitters until they realized it we her racing style. She later became a good producing broodmare and produced several foals with the same running style of racing while “playing catch up”. I just finished this painting about a month ago and it was juried into the Celebrating Life show here in Las Vegas and is entered in the American Academy of Equine Art Fall Showcase show." |
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 First Winter
by Debbie Hughbanks
6" x 8 1/2" pastle
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"This is a painting I did of our beautiful Palomino gelding when he was very young and experiencing his first winter. I loved his 'wooly' look and felt it lended itself very well to pastels. I think I was able to capture the youthful innocence of our young colt as well as the color, texture and feel of his winter coat in this piece." |
 Elegance in Gray
by Debbie Hughbanks
14 1/2" x 18" pastel
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"This painting is one I very recently completed of a Norwegian Fjord stallion. This beautiful gray color is one of the more rarely seen colors for Fjords in the United States, but how stunning! I certainly had to paint this elegant horse!" |
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 Percheron mare and foal
by Judy Johnson
8" x 10" watercolor
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"I painted this piece in small time allotments while my kids were at school or napping. I was painting for my own enjoyment and to keep my skills updated. It was from a photo I took while on the way to a county fair for Draft horse day." |
 Moon and Sky
by Judy Johnson
8" x 10" oil on canvas
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"At that same county fair years later I took a photo of this gelding who was just magnificent. He was the lead horse in a unicorn hitch and stole the show. The next year, after I had done the painting and struggled with naming it, I looked for him again and talked to his owners. I think he had won National Gelding of the Year or some such honor, at any rate, he was showing very successfully. I asked what his name was and was told "Sky," which gave me the perfect name for the piece." |
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 Candy (1956)
by Yvonne Kitchen
4" x 6" x 1 3/4" Ceramic clay, oil paint
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"Even as a high school student I was creating 3-dimensional portraits. Candy was the 13 hand pony mare I taught off of at Mar Vista, the riding academy where I worked after school and on weekends. I loved this little mare and taught her many tricks, and she was so steady I could use her to demonstrate whatever I was teaching my students. I still have several of the horses I created in Ceramics class once I had completed the mandatory bowl and box, but Candy was my most successful effort to thin the legs down without having the weight of the body compress them even after hollowing it out. This struggle convinced me that one day I needed to learn to build armatures. This sculpture was done without photo references as it never occured to me not to create her from memory, and I never sat still without sketching horses or horse parts on whatever paper was available (including my school work when I was bored by the repetition in class, much to my teacher's chagrin)." |
 Hobbled (2007)
by Yvonne Kitchen
16" x 15" x 9" Bronze
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"Once again my work exemplifies my studio name Bronze Portraits from Nature. This piece is a portrait of well known Mulemanship Clinician Brad Cameron and his lovely young mule Concho. In recent years I have taken thousands of reference photos at all kinds of equine events, many of which have inspired bronzes. This portrait is a good example. I captured pictures of Brad putting the hobbles on Concho when he tied him up to the trailer during the lunch break at the Mulemanship Clinic I photographed in Shady Cove, OR. After gaining his permission to use the image as the inspiration for the bronze, I was able to photograph him, Concho, and all his equipment from every angle--truely the ideal situation. And better yet, he liked the finished clay well enough to purchase the first casting for his own mantle." |
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