Herding Horses

by Godfrey J. Ellis – 15×30 acrylic 1990

A National Geographic Magazine in 1990 contained this 1-inch by 4-inch photo.  Merry and I fell in love with it, but it was tiny, tiny.  How could we have a frameable copy? Enlarging it just blurred and pixelated it. I decided that the only way we could have it was to paint it. I checked books out of the library on how to paint horses, which I had never painted done.  It turned it into a large 15 X 30 acrylic painting on stretched canvas.  I painted it while Merry and I lay in our waterbed watching TV.  There are a few acrylic spills on the sheets to prove it! Now, 30 years later, it hangs above the door in our home in Lacey.