Horses | Susan Rose

• The Color of Sunshine

  Oil, Canvas, 7 x 14 x .75. My 2nd, once wild mustang is the color of Sunshine, his name sake.

• My Amigo

  Oil, Panel, 6 x 6. A couple months ago ww adopted a wild burro, something we've talked about doing fir years. This painting was done based on some plein air sketching time as I sat with him, getting g him more comfortab…

• Strawberry Colts

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 12 x .75. While cruising the back roads in Pottawatomie County in the Flint Hills around the Tuttle Creek Lake area I came across this field of colts enjoying the summer pastures. Strawberry roans are…

• Storm Chaser

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 24 x .75. This was truly from a photo I captured as i was trying to bring the horses in a head of a big storm. Such an impressive bank of clouds played a stark backdrop to my cantering mare Eowyn. It w…

• December Morning

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 20 x 3/4. Some call December's full moon the "Cold Moon" as it welcomes winter officially. All I remember was that it was a beautiful moon. I am always fascinated how the moon can still be up when the…

• Curiosity

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 8 x 3/4. As I was coming up from down in the creek bed, climbing up the bank my horse Eowyn observed my activity. She looked so lovely standing there, sun shining on her, with the crimson berries of bu…

• Sunbathed Walk

  Oil, Canvas, 8 x 8 x 1.5. My grey mare Eowyn is a special animal. I have raised her since she was a weaned foal. It is hard to believe 14 years have passed. Each time I see her I am still taken by her beauty. Walking, b…

• Once in a Blue Moon

  Acrylic, Canvas, 18 x 18 x 3/4. This was created as a commissioned piece. This horse's name inspired the design, Blue Moon Over Kentucky. When I heard the name of this horse, this idea came to mind. The owner described…

• Hurry Up and Wait

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 18 x 3/4. This very patient ranch horse is dozing as he awaits the rider to return so they can start their trek across the plains.

• Winter Race

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24 x 3/4. My mare Eowyn thinks she is fast. She has muscle bulk and size, but Ivan is a lean running machine with thoroughbred sped coursing through his veins and sinew. Who will win the race today as…

• Sunny Gray

  Oil, Panel, 16 x 12. A grey horse in the sunlight, autumn, evening pasture is anything by dull grey! My mare Eowyn is the model for this painting. She is a big boned, 16.3 H, lippizan/friesian cross. She is so lovely. T…

• Got Carrots?

  Acrylic, Canvas, 30 x 20 x 3/4. A fun portrait of my now 29 year old horse when he was a youngster. Carrots were the motivational force in his life. His reason for being. He had an exceptionally long neck and he would s…

• The Crossing

  Pencil, Paper. A tribute to Ada Ammrah Ammon aka Ahmy, a wonderful arab that was part of my life for almost 13 years. He left this life soon than I was ready for, but truth be told, I don't think I would have ever been…

• Albert

  Acrylic, Canvas, 20 x 30. Big Al. One of my horses.

• Elvis

  Pencil, Paper, 14 x 11. "Elvis" a carriage horse I met in Charleston, SC.

• Fans of Summer

  Watercolor, Paper

• Charleston Carriage Horse

  Pencil. A few years ago I had the pleasure of going to Charleston, South Carolina for a business trip. Across the road from our hotel and meeting center, in the historic district, was the carriage horse home base. Of co…

• Home Stretch

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 24 x 3/4

• Impression of Blazes

  Bronze, 8 x 14

• Shoo Fly

  Acrylic, Canvas, 24 x 24

• The Grey

  Watercolor