Category Archives: Horse

Morning ride, and the new forest is looking beautiful with a fog carpet.

Arfter mucking out the ponies my daughter and I went out for a quick ride. The forest is very wet at the moment, so sticking to the tracks was the best option on our ride. We had the urge to … Continue reading

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Painting with ink, dressage horse

I have been experimenting with painting in ink, a variety of colours and brands, ( brown shades and white) plus black Indian ink watered down, and neat. Although I have used ink before, it has been for use in backgrounds. … Continue reading

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Leg yield, dressage watercolour

watercolour of dapple grey, leg yielding. Mmmm, not feeling it this weekend with the painting, ended up rushing this. Never mind.

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Christmas cards 2015-horse theme

This week has been a struggle, I had an abscess in my jaw bone, ouch! Isn’t even strong enough to explain the pain, followed by a fever, double whammy. To the rescue with antibiotics and I am on the road … Continue reading

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Pastel/charcoal Lusitano, ‘liberdade’ meaning freedom

Today I finished my pastel picture, a Lusitano free schooling, called ‘liberdade’ which means freedom. I attended a kiln glass workshop yesterday, which was great fun, and very informative. In the hope I may do some glass work with the … Continue reading

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Back to work, week of painting and riding ends

So my week holiday has come to an end, not the best week for riding, -rain and cold, I did at least ride in the school on the odd day. Lots of painting though, the benefits of bad weather, and … Continue reading

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‘Moonlit’ watercolour,ink and brusho-horse

yipee one week holiday, well it almost is, if it wasn’t for the horrid weather so I could ride on the forest( unless I dodge the rain). Instead it looks like it will be indoor school riding and lunging for … Continue reading

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Playing safe, brusho backgrounds and Indian ink horse

I had some more time today to experiment with brusho powder pigment, deciding to play it safe I stuck with using them as backgrounds for the moment. The rest of the horse is with WN Indian ink, and a little … Continue reading

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Winter is on its way, pony power!

Winter is now creeping up, I have clipped two out of three ponies ( rain put in an appearance so I have to put off clipping struggles until next week). The ponies are back in their stables each night, the … Continue reading

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Almost two days of constant painting, hares and horses

Wow, how wonderful, almost two solid days spent painting, apart from sorting the horses. I did ride Tuesday, but today ( Wednesday) we – being my daughter and I, awoke to rain, so although ready for our planned ride, we … Continue reading

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