Fake shipping scam targeted at artists (kennymoore011@hotmail.co.uk)

Yesterday, we were contacted by a Japanese customer who called himself Kenny Moore and used the email address (kennymoore011@hotmail.co.uk).
Please read more on of the same scam story, and a very good advise how to avoid scam on Dan Bailey blog:
http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/?p=456#comment-33319

Happy holidays,

kirby

The Paint Horse Gallery 2008 Art Show

Technique and Inspiration

The artist states:
“I have always had an interest in indigenous cultures, their costumes and their relationship with nature. Growing up in the west offered countless museum collections and access to libraries filled with artifacts and research materials. It was natural for me to study the Plains Indians. The writings of Joseph Campbell continue as a major influence for my work.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell

Sattler’s portraits have evolved over the 30 years of perfecting the technique. He is not mainly concerned with being historically accurate. His art interpretations give a feeling of authenticity without being specific to a particular tribe.

The paintings begin with reference materials, finding a visual to inspire an image. The composites of facial features from different sources; books, fotos, models, imagination, combined, result into a simple rough sketch on the canvas, establishing the scale and composition of the painting. Next is an underpainting to establish values, then, the process of layering begins.
Every painting has countless numbers of washes, varying the degrees of opacity and transparency to achieve depth, working light to dark, dark to light, continually adding highlights and details until the desired effect is obtained. Every canvas has as many as two dozen layers on any part of the painting.

Sattler prefers working with Golden heavy bodied acrylics on linen canvas. the palette consists of titanium white, cadium yellow, yellow oxide, yellow ochre, raw sienna, raw umber, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue, cadium red and carbon black. He thins the paints with water only, mixing colors from varying degrees of opaqueness to transparent washes. he uses from 4 inch house brushes to 10/0 liners.

Away from the Studio

View artist's Native American Art Prints

Lucien Freud Quote

The Artist's favorite quote.

“A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation, but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then that the painter realizes that is is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope that the painting might spring to life.”
Lucien Freud

Tools of the Trade

Studio Tour

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On The Easel

A sneak peek - today on the easel work in progress....

















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First Female Subject

Last May Mr. Sattler diverged from his usual subject: the male Native American.

The artist is proud to present, for the first time, an image portraying a female American Indian.

This image was selected for both the 2006 Colorado Territory Days poster and t-shirt. It is available for purchase here: http://sattlerartprint.com


"NATANE"
34"x28" acrylic on canvas
view available original art by Kirby Sattler