Holiday Advertising!

This is going in the New England Equine Journal's "Holiday Gift Guide". I'll be offering limited edition prints and art prints of many of my originals in time for the holiday season. If you are interested in any particular one, just ask!

October!

Well, seems two in our household have come down with, and are currently recuperating from the H1N1 flu virus. Yuck. Just now feeling better myself, and was able to finish up a couple of Yupo/pen and ink works. I think I will also make them available as ltd. edition prints, and perhaps an open run as well. Of course, the originals are for sale, please contact me if you are interested!

Morning walk wth friends

Jake, my dear farm collie, and Cat, my shadows.

It's official!

"Go Fetch" edition 2/25 is accepted Into the Sporting Art Show at the Louisa Gould Gallery in Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard. The gallery was voted "best gallery on the Island" by Cape Cod Life.

Foundry pictures

Here's "Go Fetch" at the foundry, getting the patina. The first picture is "naked - no patina has been applied yet. It's been sandblasted and residual patches of ceramic shell and fire scale have been removed. The patina is color resulting from heat and dilute acids reacting with the copper in the bronze. Patinas really pull the form together, adding a finishing touch. The chemicals and heat are applied, and, finally, wax is brushed on the hot metal to protect the patina.

today's painting...

Just started this fellow - barred owl, we have so many here, they are ethereal to listen to. This is just the start of a 30 x 40" ink painting on Yupo.

Dressage Spirit

What a lovely fall day - spent too much of it inside working on marketing! But I did manage to start a new painting, "Dressage Spirit", another pen and ink on Yupo paper, roughly 20' x 30'. The original, as well as a limited edition print run, will be available.