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Norma’s drawing challenge: Pink Horses!!!

Oh that was a good one Norma! πŸ˜€

I looked thru my 1928 encyclopedia of the horse for inspiration, but all the pictures are in black and white.

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I suppose the horse on the left might be pink! The one on the right might be pink too. I mean there’s something different about pink horses and I don’t think they listen all that well.

Next I looked thru this little journal that some child made in 1943. F. Mathieson. What do you guys think, Francis or Francesca? Let’s just say Frankie for short.

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Well, our Frankie collected this whole journal full of clippings and drawings and faithfully recreated the horse in many different ways.

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Frankie even hand painted some of the black and white newspaper images. This one looks a bit pink, doesn’t it?

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So with all this brilliant inspiration, I made myself a little stampede across my studio shelf.
I only had time for two, but some more might join in eventually.

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Art (OK, that’s questionable…lol): Cardboard, acrylic paint, ink, some of those metal leather rivet things.

Come saddle up over at Norma’s and see more pink horses.
Thank you so much Norma, this was a lot of fun. πŸ˜€

Comments: 10

  • April 2, 2016
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    Wonderful post… Seem to have left my inspiration somewhere of late, too much in my head lol Thank you V. for bringing me back on track πŸ™‚ mx

  • April 2, 2016
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    Delightful. Playful. Wonderful. There really is something about pink horses hey? That book full of horses made by Frankie is adorbs. I see more horses along your art shelf for sure! Somewhere on line I saw a wall of them. All different. Whether I’ll ever be able to come across this image again is questionable, unless I’ve pinned it to a board on pinterest. If I ever do I’ll show it to you. Love the feeling of these free healthy horses Veronica!!! *smiles* N, x

  • April 2, 2016
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    Cute piece, Veronica! I love how you’ve made the legs move, etc. How fun!

    Thank you for visiting Creative Tuesdays. I left you a comment there and hope we see you in May.

    Enjoy the rest of Susannah’ Conway’s wonderful writings and course work.

  • April 2, 2016
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    Oh I love the way they turned out!!! Beautiful beautiful!

  • April 3, 2016
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    i love your paper doll horses
    they make me smile and purr a bit or is that neigh

  • April 3, 2016
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    frankies book is a wonderful found and a very good inspiration! your “jumping jack”-horses are great – you should go into production for a toy manufactur ;-)!
    πŸ™‚ mano

  • April 4, 2016
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    as always fabulous ..

  • April 5, 2016
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    art or no art, it is playful and i appreciate your build-up. yes, i think it is safe to call our f. a frankie. gender neutrality works best… hee hee… i’ve been out of it a while, it seems; i think i have rather much to catch p with, which will not happen, i’m sure… anyway. i also hope chloΓ© has had a good trip over to japan (she’s left, hasn’t she?). will she be posting things someplace. i’m curious, v. nx

  • April 12, 2016
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    Big smiles your way. I saw a pink cat on someones blog the other day … so I’m sure there are pink horses! Hugs V

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