"Miami Sunshine" makes first public showing
First public showing of “Miami Sunshine” with “L’envie” this past weekend at Jump Bost Horse Show (Barbizon, FR). Delighted with the reception to the new painting. Check out the full version posted under “Gallery” on my website.
"Miami Sunshine" painting is finished
Nothing like beach ("plage") and horses! The Miami Beach setting is perfect for an international horse show. The subject was an inspiration from a zoom of a beautiful Noelle Floyd photo of Bosty and Sunshine du Phare at the Longines Global Champions Tour at Miami Beach 2016 (http://www.noellefloyd.com/examining-global-champion-league-bold-debut/). Here is a snip-it of the final painting. Check out the full version posted under “Gallery” on my website.
"Airborne" painting is finished
Horse show season is upon us so remaining on the theme of my last painting. I just love to paint these beautiful animals flying. With the start of Spring, I thought to also change up the style a wee bit.
This is an extract from the full painting which will be posted on my website “Gallery” in a couple of days.
March 2018, "L'envie" painting is finished
I felt like doing a sunny warm lit painting to brighten the grey winter days outside. This is a zoom from a photo that inspired me…along with a song by Johnny Hallyday of the same name. I chose a big format (3.3’ x 2.4’) to use the colors to play light against the deep dark background “qu’on me donne l’obscurité et puis la lumière” (Johnny Hallyday , 1986, Song “L’envie”…french for desire).
[extract of full painting]
Feb 2018 New portrait painting finished, "Generation Z "
For an early winter painting I decided to branch out. This is an extract of the finished painting that is currently drying in the Atelier. I call this “Generation Z”. Generation Z comes under different names that describes the first generation to have Internet technology readily available at a young age... not to mention earphones constantly lodged in their ears, which you will see in the final full size painting to be posted on my website in a couple of days. It is my first portrait, probably of many to come, of my daughter.
Jan 2018 First dog portrait is finished, "By the Pond, Marré"
This oil painting was destined for completion in December 2017 but end of year holiday festivities got in the way. My first dog portrait, our cairn terriers Haggis and Gilly, in front of Haggis’ beloved pond in Marré. This portrait basically worked from 3 different photos, 1 of Haggis and 1 of Gilly in their character stances and a separate photo I had of the view by the pond in Marré where Haggis loved to bark at the frogs in his youth! The painting is now complete.
A couple of closeups on the little ones
New portrait almost finished
For the final painting of 2017, I decided to change gears a bit and do a dog portrait in their favorite environment. The painting is almost finished. This is only a morsel of the full painting which features two known cairn terriers in their favorite environment, by the pond in Marrè.
WKoen Sieger ASH aka Dior, head portrait
The cold weather has arrived and so has my recently purchased little electric heater for my little atelier! I just finished the head portrait of WKoen Sieger ASH, for private collection. This took only a few days to produce allowing for paint to become sticky between sittings to layer colors. To bring out Dior, I played with a less detailed background with a blend of lovely colors including crimson red, yellow ochre and pthalo blue. He was a lovely horse whose color would go between deep black (winter) and dark mink (summer). The final portrait was based on a photo we took of him just before we went into the show ring at Oxridge (CT, USA), 2014. He was not clipped so had a bit of winter coat! To see the full image please check out my website “jcwflowercreations.com/gallery”.
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Nov 2017 "Summer Show Days" is a wrap
Nothing like painting a summer scene with the sun and warmth when entering Autumn with the leaves falling and the days getting colder / shorter. This was a personal photo of my daughter showing on her horse taken when living in Connecticut at the lovely showgrounds located at the Fairfield County Hunt Club.
Sept 2017 "Going for Gold" is completed
“Going for Gold” was just recently finished and was on exhibit at the CSI Jump Bost Competition in Barbizon this past weekend.
“Going for Gold” is the third painting that has been recently completed since picking up the brushes again after a break of many years in May 2017. How could I resist not painting the phenomenal dressage team for GB (Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro). I wanted to depict Valego in his half pass, which is breathtaking. I wanted to transform to canvas his cross-ring movement coupled with his coloring set under the strong Brazilian sun at the Rio Olympics as this legendary GB dressage team win their third gold medal.
Aug 2017 "Le Depart" is completed
"Le Depart", my second painting after a hiatus of many years is completed. The next work is already on the easel in progress.
This is the second painting following picking up the paintbrushes again in May 2017 after many years of not painting. "Le Depart" is based on a photo (courtesy of PSV Photo) of my daughter and her horse competing at the Championnat Ile-de-France Amateur showjumping competition held in Fontainebleau. The wonderful colors and movement was simply irresistible. This painting was my project over summer holidays. The paints were drying rather quickly given the excessive heat (100+F/40+C). That being said, it ensured the painting was well dry for transport before stashing it back into the black portfolio bag to head back to Paris.
