Latest Blog Posts for Horse Art Blogs

• WordPress Resources at SiteGround
  on Feb 11, 2014 in Uncategorized
  WordPress is an award-winning web software, used by millions of webmasters worldwide for building their website or blog. SiteGround is proud to host this particular WordPress installation and provide users with multiple resources to facilitate the ma...
• The Challenge of Writing and Painting
  on Feb 20, 2012 in Equine Art
  Still the  equine illustration work goes on ! Such a difference between this and creating original horse art for myself, Maggie Raynor. I have recently been working on the illustrations and part of the text for a book on the subject of fitness for...
• The Illustrator’s Story
  on Nov 2, 2011 in Uncategorized
  I ( Maggie Raynor ) have been working on 2 illustration projects, one a book on dog anatomy and the other for the Pony Club helping owners to keep their horses fit. Having spent many months creating an equestrian art portfolio for Equiprint ( check o...
• The End Is Nigh
  on Sep 21, 2011 in Equine Art
  As an equestrian artist ( Maggie Raynor ), I can share something familiar to anyone who has tried to create art, music or literature but, maybe, particularly true of artwork. I am talking about knowing when to stop working on a painting. It’s i...
• Working in Watercolour and Gouache
  on Aug 26, 2011 in Horse Art Prints
  I ( Maggie Raynor ) have just finished my painting of four Arabian horses’ heads. Much of my work in horse art has involved relatively small images in fine detail however these heads have been painted quite a bit bigger than is usual for me whi...
• The Eyes Have It !
  on Aug 6, 2011 in Equine Art
  I ( Maggie Raynor ) have just begun working on a painting of four Arabian horses’ heads. Through my experience as an equestrian artist, I like to build up the head as a whole, establishing the tonal values before putting in the detail. One thin...
• Finding Inspiration for a Cartoon
  on Jul 22, 2011 in Horse Art Drawings
  Sometimes a small idea for a horse cartoon can develop into a whole series on the same theme. For instance, I liked the idea of one horse asking another  ” Does my bum look big in this ? ” I then started to imagine what sort of horses w...
• Equestrian Commissions
  on Jul 5, 2011 in Horse Art Blogs
  Currently I ( Maggie Raynor ) am working on an equestrian commission to paint a portrait of an elderly Dales pony mare, and I’m encountering some of the typical problems you get when you don’t take the reference photos yourself. The pony...
• Inspiration
  on Jun 26, 2011 in Equine Art
  I ( Maggie Raynor )  have a good German friend who’s an excellent horse-woman and who breeds and schools Icelandic ponies. On a recent visit, she introduced me to one of her favourite equestrian art books entitled  ‘ Pferde ‘...
• Developing an Equestrian Cartoon
  on Jun 16, 2011 in Horse Art Drawings
  After writing the last blog, I started to think how I ( Maggie Raynor ) would actually illustrate this incident and turn it into an equestrian cartoon. The obvious way would be to draw the punch-line ie the moment when water drenched the luckless vi...

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