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[Dee Dee and Hallie]

Just finished this one, it was another experiment I wanted to play with some dramatic lighting to see if I could make it work. It's a buggar to scan all that black though it picks up every little dust spot so the scan isn't great. I have to enter it in a show tomorrow so off to get it framed...

[MyLittleBoo]

Very beautiful, DD!!   I love it... 

[cheryl186]

Wow Dee Dee.....very dramatic! 

[Doxherding Karen]

 :apls: It is stunning!!

Karen

[Rich]

No question that this worked! After your posting about the trip to Canada I went to Dan Smith's website and took a look. He's good but I think that you do better at capturing/revealing the soul of your subjects. There is just a spark of life/personality/character in each of your works that the viewer almost expects them to walk off the screen. Thanks for sharing your work with us!

[papbouv]

Love it Great work good luck in your showing it.
papbouv

[Roberta]

Stunning I'm sending the page to my sister. I still think you are better than Dan.
Roberta

[MimisMomma]

Such great talent Dee Dee!! Wonderful painting!!

[Leslie]

No question that this worked! After your posting about the trip to Canada I went to Dan Smith's website and took a look. He's good but I think that you do better at capturing/revealing the soul of your subjects. There is just a spark of life/personality/character in each of your works that the viewer almost expects them to walk off the screen. Thanks for sharing your work with us!

yup.  Technique is one thing but soul is another. I wish I could actually AFFORD one of your originals.   (What if someone cooked for you?  Would you barter? Hmmm...)

[Doxherding Karen]

yup.  Technique is one thing but soul is another. I wish I could actually AFFORD one of your originals.   (What if someone cooked for you?  Would you barter? Hmmm...)

. . . in your very own pristine, never-used kitchen - that room with the fridge and the soda in it.!!  SSLOL!!

Karen

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

LOL Les but if you cooked for me where would I keep my shoes???

Thanks you guys are way too nice but if you saw Dan's originals in person...you would melt to a puddle where you stood like I did I'm sure! It actually did give me goosebumps.

I thought I'd bore you with one more version of this i tweaked it a bit and got the final scan.

[Brekkesmom]

Simply stunning, DD!  Brekke sez - Ooooh - a tall dachsie!   Robinton sez - snore!

Now wait a minute, Karen - it's not that DD has a pristine kitchen!  I know for a fact that Amy, Maria, Noel, Tracy, and I had food in that refrigerator.  I also know that DD lies on her kitchen counter to talk on the phone.  And I am pretty sure that my Siglen-Angel hit that kitchen floor when she did her infamous "Fountain of Pee" as Patty petted her in the doorway.  Nah - it's not pristine - just slightly used!

[Doxherding Karen]

I stand corrected.  Let the bartering begin!! :thumb:

Auntie K.

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

I know for a fact that Amy, Maria, Noel, Tracy, and I had food in that refrigerator.

I haven't check close but you may still have! LOL.

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

The race committee just called to tell me my painting won the People's Choice award at the show, which is the one I like to win because it is the public voting on their favorite and the public's opinion is the important one I think. It was a big show with a lot of people so I was really shocked to hear it won! Must have been Hallie's rubbing it for luck.  :thumb:

We went Saturday to watch my cousins horse run his first race too...this is the one she rescued from a neighbor who was starving him so she got him for free and then saw his lip tattoo and tracked him down and found out he is a Secretariat grandson etc, so they took him to the track and he's been in training for a few months and finally got to race. He is the one I used to ride at her place. Anyway he was so cute he was in last place most of the way but then on the home stretch it was like it clicked in what he was supposed to do and he turned it on and was passing horses like crazy but the finish line came too soon but he did end up finishing 4th. They are going to run him a mile next time (longer race) so he has more time to settle in and run. Here are a couple pics I took of him. He is so beautiful especially compared to how he looked when she got him. First one of me looking geeky on him was several months after she got him he was still thin but had gained a lot.

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

A few more.

[DeeanDave]

Congratulations, DeeDee!  Your paintings are absolutely AWESOME!!!!!!! Dee and da gang

[Doxherding Karen]

UP AT THE RAINBOW BRIDGE, SOMEBODY'S GRANPA IS NICKERING!!

WHAT A HANDSOME HORSE!!

KAREN

Secretariat was nicknamed "Big Red" and he ran under the blue and white colors of Claiburne Farms.  Here is a photo of him.

He was euthanized at age 19 because he developed laminitis and was in extreme pain.

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

Thanks Dee and boys...I really almost trashed this one they start to look really bad to you once you stare at them too long!  :thinik:

Awesome Karen I have been meaning to look up a photo of Secretariat again (I've been calling Tucker, Tuckertariat...his registered name is Final Appeal). They do look similar don't they although Secretariat was more bulked out but then he was a stallion and Tucker has been gelded. Very neat to see this though I wonder how tall he was, Tucker is huge he's over 17 hh. It was tragic Secretariat died so young. Thaniks for digging this pic out. They are planning to run Tucker again in 2-3 weeks at a mile (this weekend was 6/8) and also put blinders on him to keep him focused and hopefully he'll get serious about running earlier on.

[sollysmom]

Congratulations on your People's Choice Award.  AWESOME Dee Dee.

Final Appeal is beautiful, and how great she got him for free.  Keep us posted on how he does in is races.

Darcel

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

Thanks Darcel. My art sure is having a good year, I keep thinking people are making mistakes when they call me like this lol.

Ah I just caught on to the blue and white colors Karen. Yes pretty spooky those are Tucker's too. I also just noticed his only white sock is on the same leg as his Grandfathers only non-socked leg.

[Teresa]

As always, I love the picture. I look forward to seeing what you are going to put up next. The before and after pictures of Tucker are amazing. Isn't it wonderful to see what a little love and care can do?
I had to laugh when I read they were going to put blinders on him to keep him focused. Maybe he has just a bit of doxie ADD going on!!

[Doxherding Karen]

Well, they didn't call him "Big Red" for nothing!  He was a beauty, huge, and a great stud.

The tragedy of his dying so young is that laminitis is what also eventually killed Barbaro.  Once the hoof begins to separate from the foot, a horse has no way to stand.  Shifting the weight to the other foot only causes laminitis to develop in the oversstressed hoof.  Secretariat went down quick - at the end he was screaming in pain and they rushed to euthanize him and stop the suffering.

And Seattle Slew, the other Triple Crown winner?  Turns out at stud he was mostly "shooting blanks" as the saying goes.  You never know!

Karen

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

Maybe he has just a bit of doxie ADD going on!!

LOL I think you might be right about that!

Yeah I lost my mare to laminitis it's a very nasty thing. :( She would rock way back to try and get pressure off her front feet it was awful. Horses aren't as bad as dogs (yet) but are headed the same direction, we keep messing with their genes to get a more extreme/faster/bigger/longer/whatever animal and they are going to pay for it with their health.

[Barb]

Congrats on the award !!!!  Great pics of the race....