Life Sized Colt Mural and Beyond!

This is where I left off with my horse painting after yesterdays time at Lehman's. This colt is a life sized weanling peeking his nose up above the stall to say hi! He is joined by a wall of roosting chickens, a team of Belgian Draft horses at a hitching post, a pair of buggy horses, and a family milk cow.

During a break from the colt I started on the next farm animal addition. You can see the rough sketch in chalk. I start all my murals off this way- even the large hitching post mural. If you look at the side bar on this page you can click on a sideshow that will take you thru the painting of the hitching post mural from blank wall to finished mural.

I plan on adding the ewe and a pair of twin lambs next. If you'd like to subscribe to this blog and get updates on the murals in addition to my other animal and Amish themed art you can do that on the side bar as well.

Yesterday I saw a ewe out in a pasture that has just given birth to the second of 2 lambs, still wet on the spring grass! We raised sheep on our working farm-- on my hobby farm I just have my horses but I do hold fond memories of the baby lambs and kid goats! I remember one early spring day I was hosting a lunch for a woman's bible study. Many of the woman did not live on farms. My kitchen and family room windows overlooked the pasture in which the sheep lived. We had a couple dozen ewes and their babies. As the woman were visiting and chatting the lambs decided to put on a show for the ladies! As lambs like to do, they took off on cue to leap and bound, twist and spring all at once around the pasture. It is one of the funniest things to watch because their feet look like they are on springs and somehow the lambs all know when to do this at the same time! The ewes continue to graze, no longer cued into this internal energy combustion but the babies run in spurts as a group to put on an 'airs above the ground' show. The lambs take turns doing these spectacular leaps and twists high above the ground. Well the woman loved it! They talked about those lambs for the longest time! So it seems fitting that the next addition to the farm animal murals would be sheep.

Thanks for stopping by! My mural painting schedule is posted above. If you are in Canton I have a studio there as well. Stop by and say hi! I am at Second April Art Gallerie .

Sue Steiner

equine and animal artist