54th National Exhibition, "Dreamweavers"

JILL WESTBROOK ESCORT DUTY

GINGER WHELLOCK RED WINE

I set this still life up as a challenge to paint with red as seen in bright light, shadow, half light, transparency, and reflection. I mixed hundreds of reds to represent ancient dye of an Indian rug, red wine, ceramic glaze, worn cover of an old book, faded stain on old wood and dark shadows of space.

Did I succeed?

15.8” x 24” — Graphite $3,000

Pokey was old, blind in one eye and starving when rescued by friends who kept him at our place. The day he was to arrive, they were told, “Don’t let your little girls be there till we know if he will make the trip.” But he did make it. They bathed, brushed, combed and braided flowers into his mane. They fed him as many times a day as he needed and literally loved him back to health. They found he was quite well trained and rode him everywhere. I looked out my window one day and saw this scene which made me tear up. I ran out and snapped a photo with my phone because I knew I had to draw it. He lived out his days a pampered pony and trusted mount.

14” x 14” — Oil $1,600

JILL WESTBROOK • WAOW Associate • CO • www.thefirefroststudio.com My mother told people the first thing I ever drew was a horse--before I was 3--in the dust on the kitchen floor of the little white clapboard parsonage in the North woods of Wisconsin. I’ve been drawing and painting ever since. In 1963, our family took a trip “out west” to Vancouver, BC; stopping at Rocky Mountain National Park, Yellowstone and Glacier National Park, That trip burned into me a longing to return to my heart home ~ the Rocky Mountains and the West ~ home of the cowboy, the wild horse and vistas that set in me a desire to capture on paper the things that called to my soul.

GINGER WHELLOCK • WAOW Master • CO • www.gingerwhellock.com Ginger Whellock has described the “West” as her home for 50 years. Her paintings have been invited or juried into many major national shows across the US and have won a significant number of awards in both pastel and oil. Ginger has also earned signature membership in Plein Air Artists Colorado and Pastel Society of Colorado. Ginger’s work is full of color and light, a sense of space and distance perspective together convincing us of real three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface.

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