PLEIN AIR ARTISTS
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Painting For the Cure
My specialty is painting horses, and this weekend I’ll be traveling to Portland, Oregon to one of the largest horse shows in the northwest, Dressage at Devonwood. I’ll be painting plein air at the show, trying to capture the atmosphere and beauty of the Rattner family’s fabulous facility.
Yes, painting horses while they are in competition is difficult -- it makes painting trees, rocks and hills look easy, because they tend not to move! It takes a great deal of practice to take a visual "snapshot" and transfer it through memory to the canvas. It also helps to have studied horses for years and years as I have, both as a painter and as a photographer. Although most of my studio paintings are done from photos and the occasional color study, the paintings that I will be doing this weekend will be strictly from life.
On Saturday evening, one of the paintings I’ve completed during the show will be auctioned off. All the proceeds from the auction will go to Susan G.Komen for The Cure to to aid the battle on breast cancer.
Keep up with me on my main blog: terrimiller.wordpress.com
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Comment by Terri Miller on July 16, 2009 at 12:44pm -
Thank you, Maree! It IS difficult, but I've learned to look for the repeating patterns in the way horses move. I treat the paintings like "landscapes with horses", or "horse as landscape": if I can get the composition to work, and the drawing to work..... then I might get the rest of it to work!
Fingers crossed, I'll check in next week with the results!
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