Painting, Dancing Horses & Garlic Ice Cream??

Triangle T Guest Ranch 7th Annual Garlic Festival

On July 30th & 31st, I was invited to participate in a garlic festival held near Dragoon, AZ., in Texas Canyon at the beautiful Triangle T Guest Ranch. I not only had a booth with art to sell (first time adventure), but also did live demonstration painting both days! What a great experience!! Smells of garlic wafted through the air, garlic everything was available and when I say everything... how about garlic ice cream??Of which was sold out both days and I never got to try :( 
Both days ended with a show of dancing horses - an impressive scene to behold. Some horses looked to be natural dancers, others looked more like controlled tantrums lol!

In preparation for the festival I painted a series of small garlic still life paintings, which was a fun discipline and found myself learning a great deal in the process. Who knew the variations one could achieve painting garlic! However,  4 days of modeling garlic in a bowl, had my studio warding off Vampires lol! I can still smell it!!
Here are those garlic studies created...

"Garlic I" 5x7 in. oil study on linen
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"Garlic II" 6x6 in. oil study on canvas panel
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"Garlic III" 6x6 in. oil study on canvas panel
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"Garlic IV" 6x6 in. oil on canvas panel

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What a great time! So happy to have gotten to experience a garlic festival!



 

Comments

brenda peo said…
Love this blog, Kaia!!!.. Well done..
Kaia Thomas said…
Thank you, Brenda! Happy you like it! I'm trying to get back into it, it's been challenging to keep it up to date the last couple years.

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