imaginary journey

Have you ever imagined yourself in a different world, journeying with your horse through vast forests and deserts that you can only cross at night, by the dazzling starlight? Well, now you have!

first posted at http://opheliasfiction.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/imaginary-girl-and-her-horse/

olympic eventing and dressage

Eventing over and Australia had some falls but overall did a good job. Wonderful result for NZ's Mark Todd. Boy is Germany looking good in eventing these days. We're going to have to get our skates on before they're dominating all the equestrian disciplines. Maybe that ship has sailed.
I once saw an eventing rider get into lots of trouble online after calling the Grand Prix dressage the 'fat horse' dressage. But here we are - ready for the real dressage horses. Here's to the classicists out there and those doing their best to ride and train with feel and sensitivity in the cut-throat world of top level competition.

Olympics equestrian - eventing dressage

Congratulations to Lucinda Fredericks on Flying Finish for a lovely dressage test (the first one I managed to watch on the Olympic channel too). All the riders did a great job in the dressage. Here's to some brilliant and safe rides on the cross country phase from the Australian team (safe for all the riders and horses, one hopes!). We're in the team silver position but so much changes over the jumps. Fingers crossed for a fairy tale year for Andrew Hoy. Congratulations to NZ's Mark Todd (can we claim him too? Like Pharlap??). What a rider. I think he might still be competing in his nineties...  

twenty dressage sketches in twenty days: sketch 19, 20 and beyond!

Ooops - have been offline a few days but the sketches continued...

twenty dressage sketches in twenty days: sketch 17 and 18

Will is helping me meet my quota

twenty dressage sketches in twenty days: sketch 15, 16 and 17

twenty dressage sketches in twenty days: sketch 13 and 14

twenty dressage sketches in twenty days: sketch 12

Here's one for the girls who love horses. No, they're not boy substitutes and no, we won't grow out of it.

twenty dressage sketches in twenty days: sketch 8 to 11

Spending a minute to a couple of minutes on each sketch - eek!

twenty dressage sketches in twenty days: sketch 5, 6 and 7

Phew, big weekend but I'm back. First page was done without lifting hand. Felt soooo strange.