I have enjoyed painting horses this summer at the neighboring ranch. This is a 9” x 12” oil painting on panel of a beautiful mare named Dawn. Dawn was rescued from a kill pen and lives at Jackson Hole Horse Rescue, which is next door to us, until she is adopted. It’s painted from a […]
I’ve finished two paintings of horses over at the Jackson Hole Horse Rescue (say that three times fast!). I recently started volunteering with the horses which has led me to sketch and paint them. It is such a privilege to be around these beautiful graceful animals. This time of year, every year, there is a
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As I’ve spent more and more time in Jackson Hole, WY, I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to sketch and paint horses. I am completely in love with these beautiful animals. I am donating 100% of the proceeds from two recent horse paintings to the Jackson Hole Horse Rescue. You can see more about and purchase
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Painting in Grand Teton National Park is one of my great joys every summer and fall. The color is gone now and I’ll need to wait til the spring, well probably more like the summer, before I get out and paint again in the park. This was a fun day, I made a lunch and
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What a wonderful day this was for painting a mountain pond! My husband and I hiked up into the Tetons and came across this beautiful silent pond. It was so cold that morning that when we first saw the pond it had a layer of ice on it. My sweet husband carried my painting supplies
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I’ll show you how to travel with wet paintings using only what you can find at a local market. I went to Paris and painted three 12″x16″ canvases and needed a way to get the wet canvases on the flight back to Texas without ruining my hard work. Separate the canvases Without any kind of
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I have been organizing my studio (and well, my daughter’s closet, and the top shelf in my closet, and all the other places I have paintings stashed) and came across these two paintings. It took me a while to realize that they are both of the same exact scene. The one on the left was
I am really beginning to understand “For purple mountain majesties” as I study the Teton range here in Jackson, Wyoming. In the afternoon the angle of the sun starts to make the mountains more and more purple. Sometimes they even look almost black below the tree line. Though because of the distance between here and
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