Today..Pony cuddles

Close..Closer...Can't get any closer...I love how he sneaks up on me when i'm standing in the field..I love my pony..I love that I'm almost 29 yet still in love with horses..This little one gives the best cuddles too. I adore him.

Lately...

Lately..Well for the past 10 months this pony has taken up a huge amount of my time, he has taken me to some really dark, sad places and also made me feel so happy and so proud. He's changed the way I think about horses, and life in general I guess. He's taught me a lot. I don't normally share much about my life on my blog but I would like to share more. So here's the first of many posts about my life and thoughts to mix in with my posts about art and illustration.

I hope your all well out there x

Pony rides at the Fete

I was thinking about pony rides at Fetes when I painted this. Lets call her Polly the palomino.. :-)

Illustration Friday 'afterwards'

I had a dream that I found two black horses in a top floor flat in the city center, I've been watching too many animal rescue TV shows I think! I had this dream going round and round my head for days so I decided to create something from it... So I dreamt about it then afterwards I painted it...ta da!

Illustration Friday 'Racing'

Acrylic painting with beads and thread. I had a lot of fun with this one!

Is it finished yet?

Here it is, the painting that I just couldn't finish, the one I kept returning to and tweaking. I  finally figured it out a couple of days ago. The problem was that the horses mane was far to tidy looking (I realised after painting the piece in the previous post that I like my horses to have a scruffy appearance)! So I changed his mane, that was much better, but still one more thing needed changing...The colour, he just wasn't RED enough. So now I have a very red horse with a scruffy mane and I'm a happy painter. I hope you like this one. :-)

Last weeks Illustration Friday image

I know, I know, I just keep missing the boat with these illustration friday entry's. I had so many ideas for last weeks word 'beneath' and started quite a few designs failing to finish any of them in time! Anyhoo I did sit down this evening to put something together. I decided to create a pattern design too as that is something that I need to get back on track with. So here we are, for 'beneath'... the idea was that beneath the horse there are his shoes. So I created a simple repeat pattern using a horse head and horse shoes. I am happy to get something done, even if it is too late to enter on the website.

I have almost finished my first painting so will post about that soon, hopefully tomorrow night. I have 3 paintings on the go at the moment and am enjoying them very much :-)

I hope everyone is well out there, have a good evening!|

Things I love - days 19,20 and 21!

Day 19

Day 20

Day 21

 Hi all, so I've had horses on the brain....! I hope you like, they were just quick sketches, I think these daily drawings will have to be just that.. Its nice to be able to play around a bit, for example I had fun experimenting with the tones and textures in the 3rd image. I hope everyone has a great weekend, I'm heading to Devon to see the family (and the countryside and hopefully the sea too)!

See you Monday!