Fi Webster's photos with the keyword: horses

bandannas to the rescue

15 Feb 2018 2 1 496
Cut-paper collage postcard created for Kollage Kit theme: "Pulp >>> Westerns."

artistamps: horses

11 Nov 2017 495
Cut-paper collage (with Pigma Micron marker) for Kollage Kit theme "Stamps." I figure: why not use this theme as an excuse to make some new artistamps for use in mail art? =smile= These stamps of horses are unperforated. They are approximately 2 inches (5 cm) square. They are mounted on a background of "1950s abstract" from a Pepin wrapping paper book. I will cut them out individually and stick them onto envelopes & postcards. Is it just me, or does the group of horses on the "30" stamp look like a great image for the Rolling Stones theme--the song being, of course, "Wild Horses"?

year of the horse

25 Mar 2014 2 1 724
Cut-paper collage postcard. Photos of horses in motion all by Eadweard Muybridge. Still photos by Keith Carter. Muybridge, who did most of his work in the 1870s-80s, was a real pioneer: his documentation of animals & humans in motion is influential to this day. One issue he resolved has to do with the horse's gallop: Muybridge was frustrated with centuries of depictions of galloping horses with their front legs extended out front & up high, and their back legs extended out back & up high. He didn't think that posture ever happens in the gallop, and he proved it. He found that there is indeed a moment in the gallop when all four of the horse's feet are off the ground, but it happens when their legs are gathered underneath them. If you look at the second row from the top, the second photo from the left shows that moment.