The Artistic Horse

Past Works for Print

2011-06-29T07:49:00.000-07:00

My name is Kat Green and I am going on an adventure with my horse that is going to cost me a great deal of money that I do not have. I am studying art at MSU, right now and I just completed my second year, though I took art classes throughout high school. So, I am selling originals and prints of my art.

The first price is for the original, the second price is for a print.

If you see something that is missing a price or just has a printing price, it is because the original is not mine to sell or the piece is only here to show you my breadth because I also paint on commission.

If you would like to make a purchase or have inquiries of any nature, please email me at mistyhorse91@yahoo.com. Otherwise, thank you for looking.

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This painting is in 2 canvases. Email me at mistyhorse91@yahoo.com if you would like to purchase a print of one of the panels.

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This painting was exhibited in the Lansing Art Gallery in 2009.
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detail of the piece below. available for print upon request. email inquiry to mistyhorse91@yahoo.com

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Close Ups PNH Foundation Piece: Finesse

2010-04-28T12:53:00.001-07:00

Pat Parelli riding on a beach. The ultimate dream we all have when we are children dreaming about horses.
Flying lead changes, piaffe. Two maneuvers of finesse.
Pictured is a horse being ridden with contact in the natural hackamore. Contours of various Parelli bits pictured in the back ground show what is to come.
This is an explanation of fluid rein with an image of someone performing the fluid rein.
Then, you have your first ride with contact. You ask for it for only a moment, and it is not the best form, but you know you are going down a new branch of PNH.
It all begins with a tentative dream. You see Linda and Remmer and imagine being like that someday. Below the ghostly charcoal of Linda and Remmer is a page of stick horses in various processes of finesse. It represents the way that we think in the beginning about Finesse: not really sure how all of the awkwardness of us is going to turn into a horse-man.

Close Ups PNH Foundation Piece: Liberty

2010-04-28T12:40:00.000-07:00

Ok, the colors on this one are way better in real life. I will post new pictures when I get the piece home and out in the sun...This is a girl balancing a ball on her horse's back. There is a reference to one of the ways that anti-PNH horsemen tear down Parelli--they say they don't need their horses to know how to do tricks. Well, here is a Parelli circus pony!
At the bottom, it reads "Flying lead change." Then there is a horse in the upper right hand corner, cantering on the left lead. On the left is the side of a horse's face. As you might see, this was originally a study of a pottery piece. I decided its round shape would make a great round pen!
A diagram, with instructions, of a flying lead change at liberty.
In level one, another form of Liberty is "down time." Not asking you horse to do anything, but being with him or her. This PNH student is reading her level one red pocket guide...and it looked like her horse was, too.
Heroine!
Contour of my heroine doing her signature cuddle!
I have never seen the "Beyond the Round Pen" DVD, but I hear it is great. Also, it is one of the most important principles of PNH liberty. Liberty is not the same as "round penning." Not by a long shot.
Haltering your horse is a liberty task you do in level one!
Zoneology! Labeled are all five zones, plus the drive line.

Close Ups for PNH Foundation piece: Freestyle

2010-04-28T12:28:00.000-07:00

This is what my horses are!!!
This is Hannah and Blaze inspired! Originally a boring arrangement of fruit--you can see the pear at the top of the trailer--now an inspirational bareback and bridless moment!

Camera not cooperating, will get a better photo. Example of the bad color in the photos. This is a contour of a girl one-rein riding and a diagram for follow the rail. Also, an instructional on bending to a stop.
This one is like an "Impulsion Board Game." The words talk about impulsion programs for "Long" and "Short" horses, and attached are the four horsenalities.

Close ups for PNH Foundation piece: On Line

2010-04-28T12:22:00.001-07:00

Blu's first game of "touch it"
Catching Misty--then giving her a snuggle
A young girl has driven her horse with two lines from zone 5 to a tire pedestal
Horse playing on line in a pond
After a long day playing, the two buddies are out standing together. Even surrounded by grass, the horse is just appreciating the presence of his human. Journaling is all over the background.
A diddy about the principles behind trailerloading PNH style. It's not about the trailer. We don't force, bribe, or trick the horse in, we communicate him in. Pictured is a trailerloaded horse who played with the cones and the trailer, first.
Here is a comic about a new student teaching her horse the porcupine game. She has gotten to phase four and is holding it, knowing that it can't take more than two days for her horse to make the correct response...tee hee.
You may not be able to see this one well. I did a filled in contour of two horses playing the driving game with one another and overlaid a human playing the driving part of the yoyo game iwth her horse. The text reads "Look at the horses in the pasture. They play these same games with each other." and then "When the smoke clears, does the horse still have his dignity?"

Parelli Natural Horsemanship Foundation

2010-04-28T12:06:00.001-07:00

Here are the 4 sides of my pyramid. There is no cap on the Parelli Foundation Pyramid because the cap is whatever you want it to be in levels 5-10. The four sides correspond to the 4 savvies. Red is the savvy that you learn in the latest level one (On Line); blue is the savvy you learn in the latest level two (Freestyle); Green is the savvy you learn in the latest level three (Liberty). Black, which is felted mat board, is the savvy you learn in the newest level 4 (Finesse). If you begin at the base of each side and go up, the savvy gets more advanced. There is also significance to the size of each panel: Level 1 has the most graduate, Level 2 has the next most, and so on. This pyramid is meant to be an educational presentation. Someone would stand next to it and explain the pyramid to the viewer, and the viewer would walk away with a new way of looking at horses, and hopefully with an interest in the Parelli program.

I presented the pyramid to my class, and it just so happens that one of the girls has horses, and she asked me for information!

I will post individual pictures, as well!

P.S. You can enlarge the images by clicking on them!

Commision Project #1!

2009-11-17T21:39:00.000-08:00

I am living out my idea from the previous post. My first painting will be a classic gray Arabian with bay foal runny through the grass. The photo I am working from is old-looking because it is a little fuzzy, and the client wants the painting for her mom. I am thinking of using complimentary colors red and green with a vintage feel with a twist of newness. I like the idea of the fuzziness, but I think I will seclude that to the background only, as well as using neutral tones there. In the horses, I am going to pull the most exciting reds and greens. The mother will be a grayed green, but not to crazy, because I don't want to shock them, and the baby will be red. Even though green represents new life, I feel that red is also symbolic of this: blood flowing, heat, vibrancy, excitement.
I was originally very concerned about tweaking the colors, but I am sure this is what will be the best, and if they have a problem with it, I will keep it and make a new one!
I will upload pix as I get my ideas together.

Commision Idea

2009-11-05T21:41:00.000-08:00

I have been sitting on the idea of using my art to raise money for either my 4H club or my county's Equine Committee (the 4H body that puts on horse shows). Well, today I sent out an email to have people send me pictures so I can at least have something to do outside of the college art classes I am taking--which are kind of and kind of not ok. Wish me luck!

The AP test is in! Concentration Piece 1

2009-05-11T15:40:00.000-07:00

Advanced Placement Studio Art's online test commenced Friday the 8th of May. My concentration was the relationship between horse and human shown through color. In a series of 10 works, I used the color magenta to show all kinds of conditions of that special relationship.

I began with blatant symbolism in an acrylic on canvas piece that depicts a blue girl on a stormy day crouching in the mud with her head resting on crossed arms over knees. Before her, a horse that is glowing in magenta magnificence is looking at her with concern. A nearby shelter has lone horse laying down in it and there are several horses standing out in the reflective pasture. However, the glow from the horse is being reflected by the horses, the sky, the shelter, the water, the background hills, and the girl. The magenta symbolically overcomes the gloom. This piece represents the the affect that a horse has on the sorrow of the human spirit. It is quite significant that the horse has chosen to stand over his human because horses tend to prefer to be with other horses if there is such a choice; all the other horses standing off from the two legged being illustrates this. The girl casts a shadow on the ground behind her, which represents the lingering pain that she feels from the sorrows which have brought her to this state. Seeing my horses is almost never enough for me to completely lose myself in them: I must touch their nose, dance with them in the pasture, feed them a handful of grass. Thus, the shadow.

In technical conversation, I was very unhappy with this piece for the longest time because I delight in vibrancy of color, and this, for the longest time, was not vibrant. I finally got the push I needed and I am satisfied with it now--satisfied enough to leave it as is for a month or two before going back into it. The focus on light is very strong and important. Unfortunately, the subjects are very small and not placed with composition in mind. I had planned to have the angle of the rain, Blu's neck, and the barn roof all be the same, but I doubt if any of that happened. Linearity did remain an element of interest, though: look at the treatment of the focal horse, the barn, the sky, the water: LINES! Fortunately, the eye is lead around a bit by the magenta reflections and the yellow shining through the clouds. My favorite part of this piece is the reflected horse figures in the middle ground, an idea inspired by the breathtaking Journey Series by Kathleen Conover (a notable artist folks, check that woman out!)

The models for this painting are me and my 4 year old, inquisitive QH Appendix Paint gelding, Blu. No matter what, when he sees me, he comes walking over to greet me. Taking the picture was quite difficult because he kept getting to close to me and putting his nose by me. Luckily, I did not fall in the mud! Luckily, I have a horse like him so I can know how marvelous it is to feel that special feeling you get when you know that you have a place in a horse's heart.

Artistic Recognition

2009-02-22T13:31:00.000-08:00

This weekend has been completely dedicated to filling my quotas for art class, even staying home from school on Friday to work. I am still eight pieces behind, and even though each piece is drawn out and shows great potential (and has to do with horses, of course), I am starting to feel arted out. That is until I went to an art show today and received an honorable mention for the piece I entered, and, more importantly $25. Nothing like that to motivate a tired artist.

Unfortunately, my larger inspiration (actually interacting with horses) has not been a highlight for this weekend. I have been down to feed them, but I have been investing my time in other things these past three days.

I am hoping that next weekend is more successful as far as horses go. . . and that I am not so heavily burdened with art debts!