Saturday, March 20, 2010

NEW WATERCOLORS.


Here are three images showing the stages as I create a new watercolor painting. This one is entitled:

"They're Off!"
Marsh Tacky Race Day, HHI

After attending the 2nd annual Marsh Tacky Race Day on Coligny Beach, Hilton Head Island, SC, in March, I created two paintings of a scene using one of my photographs as a reference. One painting was in the medium of watercolor and one was an oil painting. Since that time I have finished another watercolor --this time with two marsh tackies in the picture.

Just as you can see the stages of creating the painting here, I will be posting new ones as I begin them to show the process of drawing and then painting the scene. As I work on each, I will post new images until the picture is complete.



I am really taken by the look of these small horses and their color and attributes such as the dorsal stripe down their back and tail, their shaggy manes and beautiful long tails that sweep the ground.

The finished painting:


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EXHIBITION
A group of nine artists living on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina are set to have their latest exhibition at the Charles Street Gallery in neighboring Beaufort, SC.
Apple Pie Painters on the Move: nine artists; nine diverse visions, opens Friday, April 9, with a reception to meet the artists from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Exhibition runs from April 9 through April 30, 2010
The Charles Street Gallery 914 Charles Street Beaufort, SC 29902 843-521-9054 www.thecharlesstreetgallery.com

I will be showing recent watercolor paintings done on location in India and the South Carolina low country. A few weeks ago I found my subject at the recently revived event of the annual Marsh Tacky horse races on the beach here on Hilton Head Island. The marsh tacky horses of today are a distinct breed descended from horses first brought to St. Augustine, Florida, by the Spanish in the 1500s. The image below is a scene from the race day showing the close relationship between horse and rider.



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