Spirit Horse and the Rainbow Herd

Creatitivty is a strange and beautiful animal, almost impossible to tame. To let the it come through my paintings directly and as raw as I can make it is my goal. This painting is very immediate and has much movement and energy. I think I've captured the spark of creativity I want shimmering in every painting I create.

"Spirit Horse and the Rainbow Herd" original is sold, but prints are available. It was created using acrylic, watercolor, paper, watercolor pencil and crayon, guache.

Spirit in the Aspens

The white horse shows up in many legends across different cultures. Sometimes, in shamanic tradition, it is the guide which takes the traveler into the inner reaches of the spiritworld. This painting is symbolic of the spirit horse, watching over us as we meander through the forests of our soul. This painting is mixed media on board. I created the texture using paper and gesso, and painted it with acrylic, watercolor, guache, watercolor pencil and watercolor crayon. The original is sold, but prints are available for it. The small print is $65.00 and a big print is $195.00.

Brown is the new Black

When I paint, I like to use a lot of color, and it seems my palette almost always goes toward the Southwest colors...so I limited my paints to browns. This is the painting which resulted. It is the biggest painting I've done other than ledger art hide paintings, three by six feet. My goal was to capture the power and movement of a herd of horses--I think I got there. Its for sale for $3500.00. (Hey, this painting is now sold!, but prints are always available.)

More horse paintings

I've been thinking about the Celtic horse goddess Epona. She would show herself as a white horse, or a woman riding on a white horse. There are lots of cross cultural connections in using the white horse as a totem or symbol. Anyway, I painted a couple of pieces in water media on handmade paper using the theme of the horse goddess. The one with three horses is done on bark paper using sepia ink and metallic powder. It is availabe for $450.00 The one with four horses is sold......but prints will be available in the near future.

Thereis the Golden Stallion Head painting

I guess the painting didn't get uploaded to the last blog entry so here it is. It is a 20x24 inch original done in ink, metallics and acrylic on canvas. Its available to a good home for $750.00.

First Blog Ever

Living out in the hinterlands, I had no access to the internet--but thanks to WildBlue, here I am. One of the things I have been musing on is the new book out called the "Secret". Its a book about creating you own reality, and seems to be a this decades version of creative visualization. (Does the saying "theres nothing new under the sun" hold true here?)



Its newest twist is its "Law of Attraction". The author says what you focus on is what you draw to you from the universe. I actually believe this is true, and so have been doing my best to focus on things I want in my life, rather than the things which are bad or worrisome. I think it is working!!

This painting is a one I painted a few months agp. I got excited about some metallic acrylic paints I bought and did this horse head in one evening--gettign really inspired!