Hi!

My blog has now moved over to Blogspot...I am joining the fray with  A Painting a Day blog.

Please check it out at www.kimratigan.blogspot.com...perhaps you'll see something you like !

Kim

Here is my final panel. I finished it earlier this week and it is in the mail on its way to Alberta and the great team at Mural Mosaic.

This was an amazing project to be part of; Phil, Paul and Lewis sure know what they're doing and run a class act plus they keep it fun and light! I hope to be able to do something more with them on a future project...I suggested dogs :-D

Please visit their website and check on the Mural Progress. Once a panel has been posted, it can be clicked on for a larger view and Artist's statement. All these panels are wonderful and creative, browse through them all; you won't be disappointed!

The final mural will be unveiled at Spruce Meadows Masters Tournament in September of this year, where it will be on permanent display.

~Kim

Here is some updated progress on the panel. Sorry it took so long; camera went kaput!

I need to go in and finish off some facial and tack details and possibly add some more contrast in the tent. I'm not sure how far I can push it before I stray too far from the original panel colours....

~Kim

Did some work on the panel this weekend. Not as much as I had hoped, but I have all this afternoon to myself and will be painting! Hopefully I can get around to tightening up a few areas and adjusting shapes as most of the color has been blocked in

~Kim

Some of the work that artists have been creating for the Mural Mosaic Le Cadeau du Cheval are absolutely beautiful! Check out the progress so far!

After a very hectic May, I have free time to work on my panel. A lot of my progress has been in sketches, as I wanted to try and use the shapes in this piece creatively and somehow get away from using that broad expanse of blue as "sky"

I sketched knights in armor, costumed arabs, thoroughbreds in blue blinkers, mustang scenes and faded, ghostly scenes. While all of them worked to some degree, other mural artists who started their projects right at the get-go have used these subjects  in a much more innovative, creative and pleasing way.....so...after more sketching, I finally came up on a subject that fit...The Circus!

Here is my first block in of colour for Panel #9  showing the horse master waiting for his cue to enter the big top with his string of liberty horses. Working title: "Circus Curtain Call"

By the way, I was having a tough time fitting in that brown wedge in the bottom left hand corner, but after seeing Marti Adrian's panel, I followed her lead! Thanks for the inspiration Marti!

Check back tomorrow for more progress :-)

~Kim