Today was a rather auspicious day – its been a long time coming, but I am very excited to finally be setting up my studio gallery:) I had planned to just move the boxes in, but got a little carried away and started unpacking everything. I felt like a kid at Christmas unpacking all of my art supplies, books and art magazines – many of which I havn’t seen for well over 18 months! My mind is racing with all the things that I want to paint and draw, I really don’t know where to start first – oils, acrylics, colour pencils or something in graphite. I’d really like to have a go at some plein air oil paintings – all I have to do is step outside my studio for inspiration in every direction, from the beautiful landscape to the baby lambs and calves that are being born on all the farms around here – including ours, but thats a subject for another post, as I really need to catch up on posts that I meant to add last week but ran out of time to!
Following on from my last post with photos of the Clydesdales from the Dardanup Heritage Park Heavy Horse Show, I thought I would share some of the photos of the Team Australia Liberty Horse display performed by brother and sister team, Sam and Sasha Watson from Horses and Horsemen.
The performance shows the willingness, agility, intelligence and responsiveness of these magnificent animals and the incredible relationship that can be created between man and horse. The display involved a number of different and often very difficult maneuvers, with the liberty horses following instruction and direction from voice and subtle body language cues. What I found most amazing and awe inspiring was the willingness and enjoyment all the horses displayed, they were clearly enjoying the performance as much as the audience was, even the six month old weanlings were eager and willing to perform even with the noise and distraction of the large crowd and bright orange safety fences!
I was specifically taking photos for reference material for future paintings (and have already flagged a number of shots that are going to make a wonderful new series of paintings) but here are a few shots of the performance which I can *highly* recommend as a must see for anyone who loves horses!
Team Australia Liberty Horse display © 2010 South West Photography
Team Australia Liberty Horse Display © 2010 South West Photography
Team Australia Nine Horse Liberty Display © 2010 South West Photography
Team Australia Two by Two Liberty Horse Display © 2010 South West Photography
Liberty Horse Display © 2010 South West Photography
Roman Riding Liberty Horse display © 2010 South West Photography
Next post will include some photos from the tent pegging display by 10th Light Horse Bunbury Troop.
All images from the Liberty Horse display can be viewed on the Events section of my South West Photography website.
x Michelle
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