Last April, I had a call from my good friend Roxy that there was an Arabian gelding in desperate need of a new home. We joined forces to check out the horse. Another friend of Roxy’s had a DVD of videos taken of the fellow during his show career. We stopped by to watch that first. The night before I had reasoned that this was probably a little, brown, nondescript Arabian and nothing to get excited about. What I saw instead was the vision of Sham painted in Margaret Henry’s “King of the Wind” by artist Wesley Dennis. The owners and the horse had both fallen upon hard times. Owned by a young lady that was now in college and soon going out of the country and a father who had just lost his job in one of the major layoffs, they were becoming desperate to place the horse soon and get out from under his rather large stabling/pasture costs. When selling had failed, they offered him for “free” and that caused most people to not consider him sound. When I heard that they were thinking of soon sending him to a public auction, I knew I needed to visit with the owners. I know what happens to Arabians at a public auction in this area and it is usually not pleasant.
Fast forward – the gelding was in my pasture within two days.
Of course, he is an older fellow, in need of extra care and a hard keeper. Just what I needed for extra chores.
The holidays and imposed house confinement gave me the long missed opportunity to dabble, draw and paint just for the fun of doing it. I decided Total Recall (Reko) was a good subject to use for a painting. I finished the painting yesterday and this will probably be the last painting of 2009.
Total Recall
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Beautiful!