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Belgian Draft Horse Painting

Post #154
Show Girls - Belgians - click for larger image
Show Girls - Oil Pastel 20.25″ x 9.625″

Here is my painting inspired by my last trip to the Britt Draft Horse Show.

I created it when I was participating in a gallery exhibition. I felt kinda uncomfortable about the whole thing as mine was to be of a handfull of representational works. I was going to stick out like a sore thumb among all the abstract and contemporary works. As I have participated in many shows where the representational works tended to fall at the bottom when it came to curators and judges I felt a little . . . ummm . . . snarky about it all.

It amused me to no end while I painted it, as well as while it was hung in the show. Frankly even though it is years later it still amuses to look at it. Plus the title is always worth a chuckle. And for those of you wondering, it sells really well. Especially among the draft horse people.