Choosing A Website Provider for Artist

Sundancers

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After much searching I have found a website provider that is perfect for me.

And the winner is Clikpic!

In my search I found very nice websites that were too expensive....

or

very cheap ones that well... were not the look I was going for.

then

 there were the ones that took forever to load.

Then I found Clikpic which was everything I was looking for.

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  Based out of the UK
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  cost 35 lbs or $54 per year
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  designed for artists and photographers
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  two weeks free trial
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  lots of pretty easy to understand instructions
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  slides shows and other great options

                                     I'm very excited to get it finished and online. I'll keep youu posted.

Dreams of Horses

Mystic

8x8 canvas available at Lancaster Art

 The thunder starts in the distance waking Tonka and I. It grows closer, the thunder of hooves. The herd  circles the tepee, whinny, snort and take off galloping to the distant hill. The thundering hooves move closer again, this time they circle the tepee and stop.

I sleep again to the sound of grazing and dream of horses. 

My Green Paint Horse

Bountiful

I did this painting in honor of my green paint horse Miami. It cracks me up every time I use think of that term.

Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend.

My Artist Statement

Across the Universe

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I've been trying to wrap my head around the business stuff lately which is no easy task for my right brained self. I did get my artist statement finished with a little help from the ideas from Heart of Business.

The spiritual approach to my business was a much better fit and easier to use my spirit than try to drag my left brain out of the cobwebs.

So here it is.

The Spirit Horse series is a contemporary vision of iconic images of the horse. Using myth and imagination I explore the ancient connection to the equine spirit.

Combinations of layers of texture with rich illuminating colors make an interesting surface filled with movement expressing the great freedom and mystery of the horse.


I strive to express the love and spiritual connection between humans and horses.

         What do you think?

Fun With Collage

Travelers

available at Lancaster Art

I did a black and white watercolor a while back called "Blue Blazes"

Sorry I don't have a photo of it on this computer and the other still sits in the shop.

 You'll have to pop over to Lancaster Art to take a look at it.

Anyway I liked this piece and wanted to take the image in a different direction. After cropping it I did a study in acrylic simplifing the black and white shapes.

The horses look like Gypsy Vanners so I decided to do a traveling theme. Topo maps I have of the national forest worked well for the white. I had to do a little searching to find the destinations paper used for the black.

I started with applying the topo maps to heavy watercolor paper using gel medium. Tracing paper was used over the study to make patterns for the black shapes which were carefully applied over the maps. It was all sealed in with the gel medium which gives it a glossy look.

I did another a bit more simplified one. I'm planning on playing with some color with that one. Seeing red.

Fire Horses

Fire Horses

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Prints available at Lancaster Art

This painting reflects the power of the horse....

 and the scorching hot temps we've had.

The Cowgirl Way

The Cowgirl Way

available at Lancaster Art

I did this 14 x 14 collage for the Small Works on Paper exhibit and at the last minute decided not to enter.

It just seemed like too much trouble for no prize money and one more thing for me to do which right now is one thing too many.

Still minus one person here as my step brother is still out of state working. The parents have not been healthy this summer and between hospital stays and doc visits for them both I cherish the days when I can actually stay in the studio and work uninterrupted for just a few hours.

So today no doc visits... tomorrow at least one.

And its hot-record setting hot.

108 yesterday.

 Tonka and I have wimped out and slept in the studio the last two nights. No riding until it cools of a bit. The horses are grouchy and in the barn all day.

Even the chickens are panting and in a fowl mood.

:)