Last night was a gala affair at the Kentucky Horse Park Museum, hosting the opening of Fay Moore's 60 year retrospective of her art. She is a New York artist who has done sporting art of racing, hunting, steeplechasing, landscape scenes of Kentucky roadways, and a new venture into botanicals with horse artifacts. Fabulous work that I hope everyone gets to see. Her pastels have been noted to be some of the most creative, they are actually mixed media with guache, and sprinkles of paint splashed on in nice ways. My favorites were of Secretariat, another of three jockeys, a landscape of early morning with mares and foals, and a botanical with a crumbled horse statue. She will probably be coming up with more themes as time goes on!
I replaced my camera yesterday, yeay! They no longer make the Canon Rebel XTi so I got the new XS. With the lens that came with it, an 18-70 mm. with image stabilization, it is a much better version. And yes, it did cost more than the insurance check, with taxes and a nicer sling back bag that whips around to the front in a jiffy....the 70-300 telephoto seems nicer too, it has a feature that stabilizes the panned image, great for shooting running horses. Check it out at Murphy's Camera. Yes, this is a plug (unpaid)!
This painting is done from memory, the sky seen while I was driving home from the farm, and retained until the next day when I could paint it.
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