Restoring the Magic
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
“Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.”
As we go through life, we experience things that force us to “grow up” and put childish things aside and become practical, responsible adults. There’s no longer time for “silly things” like imagining mystic black stallions that run free in our imagination.
Or is there?
Approaching my middle ages, I’m beginning to see a certain amount of vanity in a lot of the things we do in our daily lives. We get up, we go to work, we come home. We earn the paycheck to keep food on the table and pay the bills.
And then what???
This next painting on my easel is a bit of a return to that “childish daydreaming” that set me on this path of becoming an artist oh so many years ago. Hard to believe that a mere book or movie could have such a lasting impact on a person, but thinking back, it was The Black who set me daydreaming. Daydreaming of a big black horse who was wild and free yet a close friend and comrade to me. Oftentimes I would find myself pretending to BE the Black, snorting and pawing the ground with my feet. Childish? Sure, but fulfulling, hell yeah! In this piece I am trying to capture that feeling.
Composition rules be dammed, this one makes me feel like the horse….tossing my head a little, snorting distaste at whatever it is this horse is looking at. THIS is more the type of painting composition I want to be doing more of. With the horse expressing emotions akin to human expressions by doing what horses do naturally.
I hope you will enjoy this piece as it progresses, setting free in me the right to dream again and restoring the magic of being a child at heart!
24″ x 36″ on primed masonite (hardboard) To be done in oils, with a pencil underpainting to begin.
Posted: April 19/06
Posted: April 26/06
Posted: May 10/06
May 10/06 (later in the day)
May 24/06 - pencil phase nearing completion
July 28, 2006 - Started laying on the colors in acrylic. At first I thought, uh oh, I’m messin this up big time! 
But working more and more on it, it’s starting to come together, as seen below…
July 28, 2006 - later in the day
Dec 30th, 2006 - Been awhile! Haven’t had much time for working on it, but here is it’s current status.
Feb 23, 2006 - It’s almost there! I can feel the finishing touches coming up soon. Yay!
“Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.”
As we go through life, we experience things that force us to “grow up” and put childish things aside and become practical, responsible adults. There’s no longer time for “silly things” like imagining mystic black stallions that run free in our imagination.
Or is there?
Approaching my middle ages, I’m beginning to see a certain amount of vanity in a lot of the things we do in our daily lives. We get up, we go to work, we come home. We earn the paycheck to keep food on the table and pay the bills.
And then what???
This next painting on my easel is a bit of a return to that “childish daydreaming” that set me on this path of becoming an artist oh so many years ago. Hard to believe that a mere book or movie could have such a lasting impact on a person, but thinking back, it was The Black who set me daydreaming. Daydreaming of a big black horse who was wild and free yet a close friend and comrade to me. Oftentimes I would find myself pretending to BE the Black, snorting and pawing the ground with my feet. Childish? Sure, but fulfulling, hell yeah! In this piece I am trying to capture that feeling.
Composition rules be dammed, this one makes me feel like the horse….tossing my head a little, snorting distaste at whatever it is this horse is looking at. THIS is more the type of painting composition I want to be doing more of. With the horse expressing emotions akin to human expressions by doing what horses do naturally.
I hope you will enjoy this piece as it progresses, setting free in me the right to dream again and restoring the magic of being a child at heart!
24″ x 36″ on primed masonite (hardboard) To be done in oils, with a pencil underpainting to begin.
Posted: April 19/06
Posted: April 26/06
Posted: May 10/06
May 10/06 (later in the day)
May 24/06 - pencil phase nearing completion
July 28, 2006 - Started laying on the colors in acrylic. At first I thought, uh oh, I’m messin this up big time! But working more and more on it, it’s starting to come together, as seen below…
July 28, 2006 - later in the day
Dec 30th, 2006 - Been awhile! Haven’t had much time for working on it, but here is it’s current status.
Feb 23, 2006 - It’s almost there! I can feel the finishing touches coming up soon. Yay!
