I will be painting at a horse-fair all weekend and no internet!
At least I expect to be coming back with lots of artwork 
Long time ago I was very sad, my pony Mona Lisa had to go, she was way to small for me and she had a mental kink, making it impossible to ride her. She was going back to my Aunt so she would be all right.
But at night I had a bad nightmare… My mom came because she had heard me scream and she told me that somewhere there was a horse for me.
My next dream was about a brown horse, galloping down a grassy slope.
I remembered thinking, ”Oh, no, not a brown one, I want a black one!”
I then forgot about the dream.
Some months later I met the love of my life, Cartouche.
Who happened to be a brown mare, and a year later I remembered having this dream…
Acrylic on canvas
9” × 9”
Saint Nicholas is back in the country!
This is what he does at night: Jumping around on the roofs, distributing small gifts and candy and chocolate in the shoes of good children.
An Arabian horse, just from memory.
I’ve been on a short break in England. So instead of diary paintings I have been making sketches. And photographing them and I am now writing from one of the many café’s with wifi!
The sketches are photographed at dark in the café!
I stayed with an Indian friend and she took me to some sari-shops where we looked at super dazzling indian costume jewellery! And I got some very huge prandis, the decoration for your plait. I am going to use them to make some show decorations for the Tarq!
There were a couple of really nice art cafés in Derby! I had no idea!
A ten minute sketch, because we were having tea at M&S and they wanted to close so we got kicked out! Mark this face: Shivanna, future Pop star!
Hmmm. What about Captain Kabob and Shivanna for a mega-star-duo?
Now my friend lives in what could be called: The Stately home triangle. It’s really palace-central! There are so many sites I want to see all at her doorstep! Upton hall, Hardwick hall, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, Peveril Castle, Kedleston Hall (Adam interiors) and Calke Abbey.
Unfortunately, all these places are closed since last week!!!!!!!!
Aaaarrgghhhhhhh!!!!
So we just roamed about the park a bit at Calke Abbey.
This is the deer shelter
And although not nearly as good as the house itself, which is something of a time capsule, the outbuildings were quite cool. But, being cold and windy, I did a sketch from the comfort of the restaurant.
I’m travelling, I won’t have internet access, so no diary paintings.
I seem to be missing a day. No idea what happened here…
Anyway, November 4 is a really tiny cutesy canvas of 4 inches across. This is the two-year old foal my friend S got as a wedding gift. It’s a mixed Lusitano and a wild roaming Dartmoor pony. You see, they have a small herd of these ponies running wild in some nature reserve, and there is this Lusitano stallion who breaks out once a year, travels a few miles, and has his way with the mares. The result is a number of unwanted mixed offspring.
This foal was one of the reasonably nice ones. It was very wild and scared, and it’s legs are a bit wonky. But my friend S is brilliant with training difficult horses and she is doing wonders with this foal. She has had her for 5 months now and even her legs are getting more straight.
I painted this tiny canvas with the gluebrush, a bit difficult.
Yeah, this one took me two days!
I did do my 0ctober 30 painting, but due to me having dinner with friends and then straight off to a concert, home after 02.00 so I didn’t post it.
Well, here it is,
October 30
A ”glue-brush” painting of a
Frisian stallion
The usual 8 × 8 inch
Oil on canvas
And October 31
tried something new, I dipped a reedpen in diluted oilpaint. I used a mix of terpentine and retouching varnish to dilute it.
Arab horse
8 × 8 inch
Oil on canvas
Next February we are going to have a side-saddle weekend. It’s one of our regular ponycamps with lessons. for the booklet I have been asked to make a drawing. But I have to do my diary painting too. It’s getting too busy!
So why not combine the two.
So here’s my painting for the day!
This was a famous circus rider in the nineteenth century.
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