This painting depicts the farming way of life back when they used a horse drawn hay rake. Some areas still use them. Mostly now it's the modern machines. The areas are vast and the machines are much faster. It doesn't matter which machine is used though because the cattle egrets will come in and congregate on the fields to catch any insect that flicks or flies through the cut and raked grass. Hawks are nearby to capture and field rodents that try to escape the machines. That doesn't bother me at all because mice and rats can make a gal scream. I tried to depict the hot dry weather that hay needs to be cut and baled. Maybe I accomplished that.
http://www.ArtworkbyAnn.comI am a fan of all things western. Especially horses. There's a certain spirit about them that beckons to me. To be wild and run free. I wanted to portray this horse in such a way, almost mystical. I left the background diffused, misty. The horse with the flowing mane and tail, radiant, wild and free.
http://www.ArtworkbyAnn.comThis painting was done from several photos taken at a cattle round up. I have gone to a few of these round ups and there is always a steer or an older cow that just doesn't want to go through the shutes. I suppose they don't like gettings shots either. This steer was giving the cowhands a hard time. I think the only one that liked it was the dog. Cow dogs love their job. He really did a good job of helping to get that steer back. The horses too. Just the pressure of the riders knee against the horses side or a slight tug on the reins and the horse knows what to do. It didn't take long to get this steer back toward the pen to go through the shute.
This painting was done over the weekend. I had gone to a cattle roundup and took tons of photos. It was late spring/early summer, felt mostly like summer. There were cowboys and cowgirls, yep, cowgirls too. It was time to inoculate them and put an insecticidal oil on them. While the cattle were being given their shots these two bulls are off in the background horsing around or I should say, being bullish. I had gotten some interesting shots of these two bulls. They were completely oblivious to all that was going on with the other cattle. That's probably a good thing. Those two fellas are huge. Just goes to show, boys will be boys, no matter what form of life.
Here is my last painting session on this piece. I did more of the detail work on the longhorns, touching up on the body, faces and horns and leaving the undertone to show through on the underside of the belly, legs and faces. The undertone is thinly applied in the beginning process. By leaving some of the undertone showing I think it brings a glow to the painting. The light areas are applied with thicker paint. The "white" on the longhorns is actually a very pale orange and a pale blue. These colors make the animals appear very white in these areas. Longhorns are majestic looking animals to me. These particular longhorns appear very docile and the sun has warmed them enough that they look sleepy. Kinda like people. At least for me. It's like on a cool crisp day and your outside in a lawn chair enjoying the day and the sun warms you...I get so sleepy. I think that's whats happening to these longhorns. The one on the right looks a little perturbed though, something roused him from his potential nap. Now the hard part, naming this painting.
My next painting session. Coffee break is over and time to start again. I am defining the cows more and the midground and foreground. I am still leaving some visible undertones showing. I like having those colors peek through the finished painting. 
http://www.ArtworkbyAnn.comThese longhorn cattle remind me of the cowboy way of life in Texas. Moving cattle to a new pasture. This painting is entered in the American Plains Artists show. Hopefully it gets accepted into their juried show.
FRANCISCO FORT was built in Colorado Territory in 1862, this is a timeless view of one of the adobe buildings.
Fort Francisco
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This is a beautiful summer night in Taos, NM at the Martinez House.
Midnight Adobe, pastel, 4x5
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Wouldn't you love to own this little treasure?? This is a painting of the fillies at a friend's ranch in Nepesta CO. They were fillies in the weanling pen & I thought this reminded me of facebook horse style.....
Face Book Paint Style
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Here is the third painting in the series I painted of the Martinez Hacienda Museum in Taos NM. The Hacienda de los Martinez is one of the few northern New Mexico style, late Spanish Colonial period, "Great Houses" remaining in the American Southwest. A must place to visit in Taos.
Martinez Hacienda #3
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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
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Adobe Horse Barns @ Rocky Ford
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This is a painting of The Razor, inspired by one of our many trips to watch the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada. Last year Jim Sharp was inducted into the PBR'S Ring of Honor.
The Razor
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I was walking along the race horse barns in Rocky Ford Co. & saw this horse with his head looking over the stall door as if asking when is my next race? So in August be sure to attend the AVF Ranch Sorting and Horse Races/Calcutta at the Arkansas Valley Fair in Rocky Ford, CO. Truly a southern Colorado tradition. Who knows maybe you will see him race.
Race Horse Stall
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