Brunette with Red Lips

24 x 18 Acrylic on canvas board derived from New York Times advertisement promoting lipstick. The girl in the advert is a brunette with Hazel eyes forming a Diptych with the Blonde girl with Red Lips.

24 x 18 Acrylic on canvas board derived from New York Times advertisement promoting lipstick. The girl in the advert is a Red head this is a Blonde girl with Red Lips forming the other part of the Diptych.



Blonde Girl with Red Lips

24 x 18 Acrylic on canvas board derived from New York Times advertisement promoting lipstick. The girl in the advert was a red head and as a follow on too this a brunette with Hazel eyes will  be the next painting forming a Diptych.

Broken ribs and horse riding

I've fell off again (third time since January) this time while riding my second horse Zanti. She is a gentle mare and was only trying to catch up with the rest of the herd. We had stayed back while the others cantered off in the distance and so I decided lets catch them up and went into a trot which was going well but Zanti had seen the others canter and slipped smoothly into a canter. I was not prepared for this and promptly fell forward still grasping the reins which snapped in two breaking my ring finger and when I hit the ground I found out later that I had broken six ribs. I have been restricted in the painting world but am recovering and will soon stroke the canvas again. I think I will be using more reds and purple colors to point to the pain experienced during this time. Experience is a good provider of inspiration and I look forward to seeing what I will create once I stroke that canvas again.

Tempest VI - Horse

24 x 18 acrylic on canvas board. Part of the Tempest series of horses showing inner energy only the horses can see.

The Embrace

24 x 18 acrylic on canvas board. Abstract concept of two people about to kiss for the first time and the energy flowing within each of them is visible et al.

Bless you my son

24 x 18 Acrylic on canvas board derived from the age old question: was there a Christ? The image is hoped to be thought provoking and it pictures a priest blessing a child. The priest could be from another world or energised by the holy spirit or what ever your mind would like you to think, ie. thought provoking. I am a believer in Christ but two thirds of the world believe in another God, i.e. thought provoking.

Tempest V - Horse

24x 18 Acrylic on canvas board. The concept is that on the back of any horse is an angel that is there to protect the rider when they ride. I have had two very spectacular falls of my painted horse Summer in 2011 and had wished that an angel was on the horses back to protect me during the fall.

Red Barn

24 x 18 Acrylic on canvas board derived from photo and sketch taken at the Red Barn that is the home of Missouri Fox Trotter "Summer" and American Quarter Horse "Zany". These two older horses in the twilight of their lives enjoying their companionship and comraderie.

Tempest IV - Horse

24 x 18 Acrylic on canvas board derived from the inner energy of horses unseen externally but imagined by us mere mortals.

Works by Meagan Mcgrath

Meagan titled this piece "The Parrot"

Meagan titled this piece "The Good Shepherd tending his sheep"

I was in Ottawa Canada from June 26th thro July 2nd and had the pleasure to meet Meagan Mcgrath. She is the 9 year old daughter of my wife cousin. She is an amazing young lady and stands 48 inches high but with a personality as big as Ottawa itself, despite being wheelchair bound she remains happy, positive, funny and her own self and as you can see from th artwork has a good sense of color and design. I like to see the art work created by children as they have a freedom and spontaniety that adults are often unable to show. She is a life lesson to all of us.



Palominos

24 x 18 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas board derived from horses in the Kansas wind which is an average of 13 miles per hour all year round. The grasses blowing in the wind look like a sea blowing across the plains.

Tempest III - Horse

24 x 18 Acrylic on canvas board derived from thoughts had when being around the horses at the Red Barn. The energy quietly harnessed and the tolerance shown and angelic qualities when being asked to perform tasks that they are sometimes uncomfortable with, we could learn a lot from horses.

Tempest II - Horse

24 x 18 Acrylic on canvas board. Abstract painting showing the inner energy that horses have inside them  known to there people and seen by the other horses.

The starting point for the painting Tempest II - Horse with the values established.

Surf Down - Newgale

24 x 18 acrylic on canvas board. Derived from picture taken while on vacation in Pembrokeshire Wales. The surfers had finished for the day and were departing to the dry land from Newgale Beach Pembrokeshire Wales

Tempest - Horse

24 X 18 acrylic on canvas board. The image is of a horse in full gallop mystically stirring up all within her path.

Pembrokeshire Surfing

The preliminary values prior to painting and glazing.
Photograph taken whilst vacationing in Wales. Newgale Beach is a popular surfing beach and the picture shows surfers leaving the sea after a days surfing. The photograph is the subject of my latest piece. I love the color of the sea and the togetherness of the surfers.

Summer

24 x 18 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas board derived from a sketch that I did recently of Summer the Paint Horse adopted from the Rainbow Meadows Rescue Ranch. The inspiration is based on artists I have admired for a long time Jeffrey Terreson and Theodore Waddell.

Summer and the Rainbow Meadows Rescue Ranch

Here comes Summer. Please welcome the new addition to the Brown Family. Summer is a painted mare who my wife Jacqui and I have adopted from the Rainbow Meadows Rescue Ranch, Sedan, Kansas. She is the most gentle, good natured horse I have ever met. Her story is a tragic one, she was left to starve alongside other horses, one of which passed away. The Rescue Ranch was alerted and stepped in and brought her back to health and offered her up for adoption.
I look forward to the opportunity to paint her and hope that I can represent her beauty, soft nature and good temperament. I have a link to an equine artist Laurie Pace on this blog and will attempt to show the spirit of the horse in my work as I believe Laurie does brilliantly in hers.
Rainbow Meadows Rescue Ranch has a Gala night on February 26th and part of the proceedings is a silent auction. I have given the artwork "Purple Rain" in support of the event.