The model for this pose was Sable Morgan’s Knight Kruiser, who’s father was the very epitomy of The Black in the flesh. This beautiful line of black Morgans capture the spirit and look of the Black Stallion. My own horse, Tattoo, shares this bloodline and is a half brother to Kruiser.

Enjoy!

My Best Friend
16″ x 20″ acrylic on canvas
$900 - Inquire to sheri@blackhorsedesign.com

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“I absolutely LOVE thunderstorms! I look forward to them every summer. When I was out photographing Sable Knight Kruiser of Sable Morgan Horse Farm, I knew I just HAD to paint him against this beautiful and inspiring backdrop. A storm child am I, and I hope that it inspires you to dream as much as it does for me!” - The Artist

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

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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!

“Dark Knight of the Soul”
16″ x 20″ oil on canvas
Original available
Prints available

“Spanish Elegance”
11″ x 14″ pastel
Original available
Prints available

All my life I have been a dreamer. Since childhood, my daydreams (and nightdreams too!) were filled with the image of the black horse you see here. He would stride through scenes in my mind, cross-country, through the cities…a hero in the dark.

Sometimes he’d carry me with him, but most times, I was him. Often I’d imagine myself prowling the city streets at night, rescuing victims of crime by instilling the wrath of a stallion gone mad upon the criminals or attackers. Chasing them off, baring my teeth, they’d run in fear.

I think a lot of us have that fantasy. Of being the Hero, of rescuing innocents. How many of you have ever imagined yourself as a magical wild black stallion?

When I began taking my art more seriously, it wasn’t hard to determine a studio name for myself. That Black Stallion of my dreams, who was my muse, became the name which I began to become known for - Black Horse Studio & Design.

Probably the best way to describe this can be found in the words by musician Lawrence Gowan and his mystical song, Moonlight Desires.

You’ve got ways To take hold of my thoughts Over-riding my senses
Lock your sights Dead in line with my heart Share your powers
You stir my soul And whet my hunger And weave that spell That pulls me under

These moonlight desires Haunt me
They want me, they want me
These moonlight desires Haunt me
You’re sending, you’re sending

Secret fires Burn inside me unknown Raging on, Never mentionned
Only you Can uncover the flames Break their silence
And make them dance For us to see them And break their chains
And give them freedom

“Risky Business”
Timber Wolf & Chipmunk
16″ x 20″ pastel

“Brown Beauty”
Morab Gelding
16″ x 20″ pastel