Showing posts with label horses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horses. Show all posts
Jun 17, 2017
American Unicorns for Independence Day
I have a some new unicorn artwork available on shirts through Merch by Amazon. These were designed to celebrate the American 4th of July holiday, so these little cuties are wearing patriotic red, white, and blue colors and decorated with stars and stripes. All are available in a variety of shirt colors and sizes for men, women, and kids.
May 16, 2017
Unicorns for Birthdays and Graduations
I've added some new unicorn designs to my Amazon Merch T-shirt store. These are pretty little cartoon unicorns in a variety of colors that are perfect for little kids, especially little girls, who love unicorns.
I have blue, pink, purple, and rainbow colored unicorns. Some are for birthdays with sayings like, "The Prettiest Unicorns Are Born In June" that would be great for your child to wear at her birthday party. Others are designs with "Class of 2017" perfect for your child's graduation celebration. I also have some versions of unicorns with no text that are great for your kid to wear any time, just because he or she loves unicorns. Here are a few examples:
See more Unicorn shirts in my Amazon Store.
I have blue, pink, purple, and rainbow colored unicorns. Some are for birthdays with sayings like, "The Prettiest Unicorns Are Born In June" that would be great for your child to wear at her birthday party. Others are designs with "Class of 2017" perfect for your child's graduation celebration. I also have some versions of unicorns with no text that are great for your kid to wear any time, just because he or she loves unicorns. Here are a few examples:
See more Unicorn shirts in my Amazon Store.
Apr 19, 2017
Horse Lovers Shirts Update
I posted a while back that I've been putting my horse art on t-shirts on Amazon. Due to Amazon's rules and limitations, I've had to shuffle things around, removing some shirts and adding others. The good news is, I've been able to add more horse themed shirts than I've had to remove. So this post is just to update you on the selection of horse art shirts I currently have available on Amazon. Click a shirt image below to see the size and color options available for that design.
Funny Fat Horse Skinny Woman Will Work For Hay Shirt
I Love My Black Pinto Gypsy Vanner T-shirt
Bay Pinto Gypsy Vanner Gypsy Woman Shirt
Life Is Better With Paint Horses T-shirt
Life Is Better With Horses Tee
Life Is Better With Appaloosa Horses T-shirt
I Love Friesian Horses T-shirt
Friesian Horses Proof Of God T-shirt
Yes, I Really Do Need All These Horses T-shirt
Horses Are Proof Of God Tee
Life Is Better With A Black Paint Horse Tee
Dripping Wet Hot Pink Paint Horse Shirt
Horse Love Bay Paint Mare and Foal Shirt
Love Horses White Cremello Mare and Foal T-shirt
Appaloosa Horse Family Tee Shirt
Neon Green Dripping Wet Paint Horse T-shirt
Black Quarter Horse Family Shirt
Rainbow Paint Horse T-shirt
Love Horses Palomino Shirt
Life Is Better With A Buckskin Appaloosa Shirt
Life Is Better With A Palomino Paint Horse Tee
Horse Lovers Bay Mare and Foal Shirt
Vibrant Purple Wet Paint Horse T-shirt
Keep Calm & Get Back On Jumping Horse Shirt
Keep Calm & Ride On Western Quarter Horse Tee
Keep Calm & Ride On Dressage Horse Shirt
Western Horse In Sepia T-shirt
I Love Friesians T-shirt
Apr 15, 2017
Horses Without Fences
In earlier posts I shared a new set of digital horse paintings featuring a family of horses in snow in a variety of coat colors. In those earlier versions the horses were behind a fence in a corral. Well, to show off more of the beauty of the horse itself I made versions with the fence in front. This post will feature them in solid coat colors. In later posts I'll have appaloosas and pintos.
Apr 9, 2017
Do We Really Need To Know Evil To Recognize Good?
I recently finished a painting of a Friesian horse trotting through the snow. The Friesian horse is an easily recognizable, though not well-recognized, breed. By that I mean, if you are familiar with horse breeds, it is very easy to distinguish from other breeds. If you are not familiar with horses, however, you've probably never seen or heard of one (except in movies).
Friesians are easily distinguished from other breeds because they have many characteristics of a draft but are leaner and more graceful. The Friesian always comes in black (except for one very rare exception, a chestnut stallion called Fire Magic) with no white markings such as socks or blaze. It has a long wavy mane and tail and feathery feet.
But, the Friesian is uncommon in the United States and if you live here you are unlikely to ever have seen one. In all my years of owning and working with horses I don't think I ever saw one in real life. This is why I say it is not likely to be recognized by most people, at least most people in the U.S.
The Friesian gets its name from the place of its origin, a region in the Netherlands known as Friesland. It's a light draft horse breed originally bred to pull carriages and is popular for this purpose because of its elegant, high-stepping gait.
So, what does the title of this blog post have to do with any of this? Well, when I first uploaded this image I shared it to my Facebook page and I realized a lot of people would not recognize this horse breed. So I added a little bit of info about the breed and included a YouTube video so people could see this amazing horse in action.
The Friesian horse's movement is so amazing to watch that, while previewing YouTube videos, I got a little emotional when I watched these beautiful creatures in action. They are stunning. It made me ponder all the wonder and beauty this world has to offer. But then I wonder, how can we have such beauty and yet have so much ugliness and evil too? Why can't we just have the beauty of this world? Well, I've wondered this before, as I'm sure everyone has at one time or another. If you wonder out loud, the response from others is usually something like, we can't recognize beauty without ugliness, we can't appreciate pleasure without knowing pain, we can't know good without knowing evil.
That's the standard and widely accepted notion about good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, etc. The idea is that if we lived in a world where everything was wonderful, everything was beautiful, that we would not be able to appreciate it, or even recognize it. I disagree. I think this is nonsense.
Why? Because I was a child once. Yes, we all were. Think back to when you were two years old. When I was 2 I already knew horses were wonderful, beautiful creatures. No one had to teach me that, or compare it to something ugly before I understood. I was already delighted by kittens, puppies, and baby chicks. I marveled at pollywogs, hummingbirds, and butterflies. I'm pretty sure that, at 2 years old, I knew nothing of famine, war, hurricanes, and the Ebola virus. Yet I still managed to thoroughly enjoy my goldfish and fluffy teddy bear. I really don't think we need to know ugliness to know what's beautiful, to know misery in order to recognize what brings us pleasure. The ability to recognize beauty is already within us from birth.
So, for those of you who would like to experience some beauty without thinking of ugliness for a few moments, I present to you the magnificent Friesian horse in action in this YouTube video below. Enjoy!
The KFPS Royal Friesian Horse
Friesians are easily distinguished from other breeds because they have many characteristics of a draft but are leaner and more graceful. The Friesian always comes in black (except for one very rare exception, a chestnut stallion called Fire Magic) with no white markings such as socks or blaze. It has a long wavy mane and tail and feathery feet.
But, the Friesian is uncommon in the United States and if you live here you are unlikely to ever have seen one. In all my years of owning and working with horses I don't think I ever saw one in real life. This is why I say it is not likely to be recognized by most people, at least most people in the U.S.
The Friesian gets its name from the place of its origin, a region in the Netherlands known as Friesland. It's a light draft horse breed originally bred to pull carriages and is popular for this purpose because of its elegant, high-stepping gait.
So, what does the title of this blog post have to do with any of this? Well, when I first uploaded this image I shared it to my Facebook page and I realized a lot of people would not recognize this horse breed. So I added a little bit of info about the breed and included a YouTube video so people could see this amazing horse in action.
The Friesian horse's movement is so amazing to watch that, while previewing YouTube videos, I got a little emotional when I watched these beautiful creatures in action. They are stunning. It made me ponder all the wonder and beauty this world has to offer. But then I wonder, how can we have such beauty and yet have so much ugliness and evil too? Why can't we just have the beauty of this world? Well, I've wondered this before, as I'm sure everyone has at one time or another. If you wonder out loud, the response from others is usually something like, we can't recognize beauty without ugliness, we can't appreciate pleasure without knowing pain, we can't know good without knowing evil.
That's the standard and widely accepted notion about good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, etc. The idea is that if we lived in a world where everything was wonderful, everything was beautiful, that we would not be able to appreciate it, or even recognize it. I disagree. I think this is nonsense.
Why? Because I was a child once. Yes, we all were. Think back to when you were two years old. When I was 2 I already knew horses were wonderful, beautiful creatures. No one had to teach me that, or compare it to something ugly before I understood. I was already delighted by kittens, puppies, and baby chicks. I marveled at pollywogs, hummingbirds, and butterflies. I'm pretty sure that, at 2 years old, I knew nothing of famine, war, hurricanes, and the Ebola virus. Yet I still managed to thoroughly enjoy my goldfish and fluffy teddy bear. I really don't think we need to know ugliness to know what's beautiful, to know misery in order to recognize what brings us pleasure. The ability to recognize beauty is already within us from birth.
So, for those of you who would like to experience some beauty without thinking of ugliness for a few moments, I present to you the magnificent Friesian horse in action in this YouTube video below. Enjoy!
The KFPS Royal Friesian Horse
Apr 4, 2017
Paint Horses In Winter Corral
Paint horses are here! In my last post I created several color variations of appaloosa horses in snow. Now I've done them all in the tobiano pinto coat pattern in bay, buckskin, chestnut, palomino, and black. As usual, all are available as prints, greeting cards, throw pillows, tote bags, and more. Click an image to see all the products available for that version of the paint horse family artwork.
As with the other, I can mix and match them for you so if, for example, you want a black paint, palomino paint, and bay paint together, I can do that. Just let me know.
As with the other, I can mix and match them for you so if, for example, you want a black paint, palomino paint, and bay paint together, I can do that. Just let me know.
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