Horse Art
Color and reality, serenity and light. Those are elements I like to include in my paintings. Let's talk about color. I like lots of it and complementary schemes are my favorites. Most of the time, I like my horses to look real and place them in realistic settings. I do deviate from this sometimes and create something wild and different. I love to experiment with my work. Serenity is a big part of my paintings. I like to create a feeling of calm and peace. A place you can go to gaze upon a horse and feel a sense of contentment and rest. The light, a painter can never talk about light enough. It's the most important element in a painting. it sets the mood and makes the painting what it is. I'm learning about light. It's a long journey. Now you know a little bit about my horse art and what I'm trying to accomplish with it. Donna
Montana Horse Art Gallery
Color and reality, serenity and light.
Enjoy these paintings of Montana horses.
- Montana Horse Art Gallery
- Paintings of Donna Ridgway.
- Ridgway's Blog
- Sometimes daily updates of paintings as they're done. Studio updates, shows and awards.
- ACEO horses of Ridgway
- Purely a site for horse aceo cards.
How to create a horse painting.
1. Use professional artist grade materials. You don't want your work coming off the canvas in two years. Your customers deserve the best you can afford. Always purchase the better grade of paints and canvas.2. Begin your painting! When I'm working on a large oil painting, I draw the painting with my paint. I don't sketch the image ahead of time to transfer it. I use a lot of turpentine, any color of paint I choose, and I begin to splat and rub the paint around on the canvas.
After that, I wet my brush in turpentine and begin to draw the horse into the wet paint. I place the elements of the painting onto the canvas so they seem to be as close to the real thing as I can. This painting was of my neighbor's draft horse, Candy.
You can see after I place the elements of the painting, I begin to refine them and add color bit by bit until the painting is finished. Candy still needs a little work on her before she's done, but she's close.
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- Fiona Morgan Fiona Morgan Aug 12, 2008 @ 6:01 am
- Hey Donna, thanks for the lens on your painting approach. I'm just getting back into 'real' art after being attached to my computer for many years, and your pictures-at-various-stages are quite helpful. I'm tracking my progress up at a blog called How Draw Horses?
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- ChipsTrip ChipsTrip May 26, 2008 @ 11:38 am
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- Leenashorses Leenashorses Feb 7, 2008 @ 1:05 am
- Hi, Donna!
Good to see you here too!
I also just started squidoo lenses (on horse art in general and one about cat funnies, having been a cat person also all my life)
Lovely lense you got here!
Leena :)
(from Finland)
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- dmdartist dmdartist Mar 11, 2007 @ 11:22 am
- Hi Donna,
I've rated and lensrolled you go both my lens and the WWAO lens. Like the horse painting demo!
Denise
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- Mattos Mattos Mar 10, 2007 @ 2:56 pm
- Great lens. I love the how to create a horse painting. Nice job and beautiful work. Signed your fellow Montana atrist friend.
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- ArtistEva ArtistEva Mar 10, 2007 @ 10:05 am
- Hi Donna....beautiful horses. I lensrolled and rated you.
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- calviaart calviaart Feb 27, 2007 @ 12:21 pm
- Very enjoyable, especially how to paint a horse. You have a wonderful place for an artist to work. I'm stuck in a swamp..LOL Sylvia
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