I'll let you in on a secret... My Father had just 2 questions for me when he was very ill, and one of them was if there was anything he could have done to quell my horse fever! We had a big laugh over that one. I assured him that he was no match for the Lord... because it was a passion instilled into me from my creation and was a large part of who I was, stretching far beyond my time spent with horses. It taught me compassion, dicipline, perserverence and more than anything - how to handle all those "nay-sayers" in your life who constantly drone to you all the reasons you can't do something.
Okay - back on track to what this post is really about - Art. In my high school years, I took a couple of art classes and was better than I thought I would be....but still, all I wanted to draw was horses! Who would have thought!! I did not persue that interest... so when I see artists like Jeanne, who is doing the painting for us of Sport ... or the amazing painting I am going to post below, I think that maybe sometime in the future, I would enjoy persuing that interest again. I only learned how to draw, never experienced painting of any kind.
This painting makes me want to learn!!
4 comments:
Hahaha, I am really chuckling at what your dad said to you: my mother recently remarked, "I think I overdid it on the horse thing," relating to me. I had been nattering on about something equine-related or hanging up yet another piece of horsey art in my house. I said, "No, Mom, it's not your fault (although she is responsible for starting me riding). I was BORN this way and it's just a part of me!"
True horse people will ALWAYS be horse people, period. :-)
As far as art, I have a smidgen of talent myself - certainly better than those who can't draw a straight line, but nothing special. (Daughter and granddaughter of Fine Arts Majors, but my brother got the lion's share of the family talent in this generation) I love to draw, though, and you'll never guess what my favorite topic is... LOL. In fact, horses/horse parts are about the only things I can do from memory! I am a much better 'copier' than original artist. "Some day" I'd like to take a watercolor class as it fascinates me.
That picture is beautiful! I think the horse thing is something that comes very natural. My Grandpa loved horses and my mom loved them but her siblings were terrified of them. Through all the anti-horse people I had one cousin who was obsessed. It's definitely something you're born with. Maybe it had something to do with the influence of my mom and I but I like to think we all inherited it from my grandpa.
I was a huge art geek in high school, and just loved to paint animals - especially horses. One of my biggest regrets with that is I got side tracked by trying to be a "cool" artist to get into design school, and cool artists don't paint horses so say admissions people! I ended up not getting in at all, and the art I made never was as good as painting horses that I were truly passionate about.
The painting is indeed beautiful. I grew up drawing horses. I went on major in Art in college , with a teaching certificate. In college, we were rarely given the chance to paint anything we wanted, instead we painted the 'set up ' our professors made for us. We were after all learning techniques. I taught highschool art for 7 years , and during that time I started doing commissioned horse portraits. As soon as I get rid of the facebook bug that won't allow me to post photos to my account, I will notify you so you can see some of my work. It is 'photo-realism' style.
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