Carrie L. Lewis | August 4, 2010
6×8 Original Oil on Gessoed Panel
Colors Used: Colors Used: Burnt Umber, Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White, Manganese Blue, Ivory Black
Medium Used: Walnut Oil
The painting session began with a good rubbing of Walnut Oil. I used my hands and rubbed the surface of the painting thoroughly to warm up the oil and spread it over the parts [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | July 28, 2010
6×8 Original Oil on Gessoed Panel
Colors Used: Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber, Transparent Yellow Oxide, Titanium White
Medium Used: None
Buckles & Belts is getting close enough to completion that the sessions are getting shorter and shorter and further apart.
In the week of July 12, I got only one painting session on the painting. Most of that time [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | July 14, 2010
6×8 Original Oil on Gessoed Panel
Colors Used: Titanium White, Manganese Blue, dark Palette Gray, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber
Medium Used: Walnut Oil
When I sat down to paint this session, I didn’t intend to do a lot of work or spend a lot of time. It was already eight o’clock in the evening and [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | July 7, 2010
6×8 Original Oil on Gessoed Panel
Colors Used: Palette Gray, Burnt Umber, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Titanium White
Medium Used: Walnut Oil
This week focused on the only area yet to be finished on Buckles & Belts, the part of the face to the left of the halter and bridle.
The eye had been bothering me for some time. [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | June 29, 2010
6×8 Original Oil on Gessoed Panel
Monday Session
Colors Used: Titanium White, Cerulean Blue, Prussian Blue, Burnt Umber
Medium Used: Walnut Oil/Alkyd Medium
In the first work session, the primary goal was to get back into a rhythm with this painting and to begin putting paint on the panel.
The painting sat idle for seven months. The paint was well [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | June 22, 2010
Many of you will remember this image. Buckles & Belts. It was one of the lesson paintings I started early in 2009, when I was learning the Flemish technique of painting.
Most of those paintings didn’t survive due to paint film failure, support failure or just plain boredom with the image.
This painting wasn’t officially abandoned, but [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | April 28, 2010
I want to take a break from writing to let you know I currently have a collection of art trading cards available on auction through eBay.
The collection includes four original ACEO horse paintings. Impulsion, shown here, is one of those.
The collection also includes many ACEO reproductions of larger horse paintings and includes such favorites as [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | December 19, 2009
Today’s 90-minute session began and ended with the blue halter, but also encompassed parts of the bridle, hardware on both and all of the horse to the right of the tack as color work continued.
I didn’t intend to spend a lot of time on this painting today as there were other things I should have [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | October 24, 2009
Flint Hills Contrasts
9″ x 12″ on Prepped Canvas Panel
Flint Hills Contrasts is the newest completed painting from the studio of Carrie L. Lewis Horse Painter.
The painting is a result of July 4 travels through the Flint Hills region of Kansas, but is not a specific location. Rather, it’s an ‘impression’ of the area. It combines [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | October 22, 2009
Today was a good day. After a weekend on the road and two days of post-trip dithering, I finally got the last of the trip-related business taken care of. The trip is now officially history.
To celebrate and to get myself warmed up for portrait work, I worked on three small format, landscape paintings.
The first [...]
I am a self-taught artist for the most part. Lots of trial and error in the past forty years! Formal art training consists of a couple of years of high school art, a painting class at a community college, one semester in the Fine Arts program at Abilene Christian University and a couple of local workshops.
I am always looking for ways to better my artistic skills, so I am a permanent student in the School of Trial and Error. I love reading and have been known to spend hours online researching materials and techniques. As a result, I've painted in several different styles, including the direct method (which goes straight for the color) and Classical methods (which involves underpaintings, layering and glazing).
I have exhibited paintings in locations such as Lone Star Park Race Track, Grand Prairie, Texas and Remington Park Race Track, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Since the early 90s, I've worked with the Michigan Harness Horseman's Association, donating custom portraits to their annual benefit auction.
In the course of maintaining a growing art business, I have taught myself web design (a skill that will no doubt prove to be a continual learning experience).
I also enjoy puttering around the yard, chasing trains with my husband, Neal, travel and, of course, looking at horses whenever they appear on my horizon.
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