Sunday, May 9, 2010

Happy MOTHER'S Day-A Painting of A Mother -By a Mother...

My wonderful mare-Sweet Charity -( Trakehner /Thoroughbred)
and her first foal- Star Of David -(Trakehner - Holstein)

She had three foals -and was a wonderful-kind-'soft spoken' Mother---

I painted this water color in 1995 or 1996-

My dream was to breed fine horses- she had three-
Star of David and Sweet Independence (Trakehner / Oldenburg) (her second) are 'stars'--in the disciplines of jumping and dressage...
Her third-Sir Benjamin (Trakenhner/ Welsh Cob) is a star in my back yard!!!--I will never sell him---I may lease him to a Pony Clubber--because he loves to work and needs a job!!!

Someday I'll tell you the story about the Trakehner breed---and why it is the only breed which assumes the first letter of the Mother's (Mare's) name rather than the first letter of the father's (Stallion's) name - as do most other breed registries.

Happy Mother's Day to my awesome warrior friends!!!!

Carol-Christian Soldier...

9 comments:

~Leslie said...

Beautiful painting Carol. I would love to be able to paint and draw so well.

~Leslie

christian soldier said...

L-thank you so much-and-Blessings to you--

MathewK said...

That's a lovely painting Carol. You're quite the artist.

Pasadena Closet Conservative said...

Thanks for posting the link with your comment yesterday. Love the painting. It's quite touching.

christian soldier said...

MK-thank you-
Did you know that I have a web site w/ many other pieces-can be linked at the bottom of roll-via profile-"web site"...
PCC-every artist appreciates encouragement..:-) thank you...

WomanHonorThyself said...

hope ya had a great day my friend!

christian soldier said...

WHT--I did-relaxed- we watched a couple of movies on my computer-which is in the kitchen- while my son cooked-it pays to teach them early - doesn't it!?!!!

shoprat said...

Quite a good painting.

christian soldier said...

thank you-SR :-)