"Sisters", Original Watercolor Painting by Colorado Artist, Donna L. Martin

"Sisters"

 

 

 

This was a commissioned watercolor piece I created.  These horses were sisters and the owner wanted a special piece to remember both of them.

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Grey Paint Filly

Wouldn't you love to own this little treasure?? This is a painting of a grey paint filly at a friend's ranch in Nepesta CO. She was in the filly weanling pen & I thought she was just tooooo cute and you don't see grey & white paints very often. So I just had to paint her. Get it, had to paint the paint filly......

Grey Paint Filly

6x6

Framed & Ready to Hang

$200 includes S&H

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"BEST OF FRIENDS" 11004, daily painter textured horse © Carol Nelson Fine Art

"BEST OF FRIENDS"

                  

The National Western Stock Show is winding down in Denver, but I still have horses on my mind.

On this painting, I used a palette knife to texture the canvas surface with gel medium before I started painting.  Multiple layers of fluid acrylic washes create a richness and depth of color.

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If you're in the Denver area this weekend, Jan. 21-23, stop by my booth at the Indian Market.  I wish I could tell you my booth number, but I won't know that until I check in.  The Indian Market is held at the Merchandise Mart, 58th and I-25.

"ROUNDUP" daily painter western horse painting © Carol Nelson Fine Art

"ROUNDUP"

The 105th annual National Western Stock Show, the Super Bowl of stock shows opened here in Denver over the weekend.  Ranchers, farmers, breeders, horsemen converge on Denver for 16 days to show their animals and compete against the best of the best from around the country.  There's horse shows, several rodeos, and every conceivable competition from sheep-shearing to mutton busting to horse dancing.

One part of the stock show that I try not to miss is the Coors Western Art exhibit, which features western themed fine art by incredible artists who are much more famous than I will ever be.

I also like to walk around the grounds looking at all the critters.  There are so many breeds of cattle, horses, sheep, etc. all getting groomed and foo-fooed for their moment in the spotlight.  There are small animals too - chickens, rabbits, ducks, guinea pigs - you name it.

For more information about the stock show and the art exhibit, click the link above.  For more information about this painting, which epitomizes the legends of the West, click here to go to my website.

"Winter Solstice" by Kate Dardine (sold)

This 12x12 painting sold. For more paintings, please visit my website, www.katedardine.com
Prints of this piece are available at Art for Conservation.

Kate Dardine is a daily painter from Fort Collins, Colorado

Shyanne - Yearling Paint Filly by Kate Dardine

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.

More of my work can be seen at www.katedardine.com

The Universe is Infinite by Kate Dardine

"The Universe is Infinite" is part of my Equine Spirit series. I was reading the book, "Notes from the Universe" by Mike Dooley and the title of the painting was one of the daily meditations.

This painting is about choices, and is a meditation on living life firmly planted in what we have determined is "reality" while dreaming of another existence which holds all the possibilities of the Universe. But which is real, and which the illusion?

This is a 20x20 oil on gallery-wrapped canvas, available for purchase from my website, www.katedardine.com.