IRMA GRANT - ART
  • HOME
    • PORTRAITS
    • PUBLIC ART
    • GRAPHIC ART
    • PICTURE BOOK: THE RED LANTERN
  • ABOUT
  • BLOG
  • SHOP
  • ART LESSONS

ICICLE - AN ICELANDIC HORSE

12/10/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
While driving home today, I followed a car with the license plate “IS 66.” I guessed by the added flag sticker that “IS 66” meant Iceland located at 66 degrees latitude. How appropriate, the day I finished painting Icicle, the Icelandic horse with the 80s punk rock hairdo.
 
Three summers ago we stayed at a converted sheep farm where Icicle roamed the surrounding fields. Iceland is covered with over 80,000 Icelandic horses. Not bad for an island you can circumnavigate by car in one day – one long day. Why so many horses? Icelanders don’t eat horse meat. Turns out they are mostly used for breeding, exporting and enjoyment.  Our girls couldn’t get enough of Icicle; feeding him grass in the cold summer winds and petting his puffed up mane. They even got to ride Icelandic horses, a highlight of our road trip.
 
It was Icicle’s big hairdo that attracted me to put him on canvas: A kind reminder of our time north of 66.
 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    VISUAL ARTIST
    ILLUSTRATOR
    TEACHER
    Picture

    Archives

    May 2024
    December 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    December 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    October 2017
    May 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    July 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    September 2015
    July 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015

  • HOME
    • PORTRAITS
    • PUBLIC ART
    • GRAPHIC ART
    • PICTURE BOOK: THE RED LANTERN
  • ABOUT
  • BLOG
  • SHOP
  • ART LESSONS