This is a painting of my Paint filly, Shyanne, when she was a yearling. Shyanne came into our lives when she was one day old. I had stopped by a local ranch to see a horse I had there in training. They told me that they had just lost a mare who had given birth the day before. Right away I knew my mare, Stormi, would be the perfect nursemaid. Stormi had lost her day-old colt the year before - but for some reason had never dried up nd was still producing milk. So we brought Stormi to the ranch and she took to the filly immediately! She had this look on her face like, "Well, here's my baby! I've been looking for her for a long time!" I really think she always believed her baby would come back. Long story short, we ended up keeping the filly. She was originally named "Annie" as in "Little Orphan Annie", but when we decided to keep her, we changed her name to Shyanne - for one, she was shy as a baby, but really because our other four horses all had names starting with an "S" (Stormi, Scotty, Shiloh and Star!)"Shyanne" is a 24 x 24" oil on gallery-wrapped canvas, and is available at the Collective Gallery.
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