Horses
Three Amigos
This large scratchboard piece is currently at the International Scratchboard Society’s annual show in Tucson, Arizona. It is close to 20×30 inches and took a month to complete! The reference for this piece was a photo I…
Horses, Horses, Horses: Exhibition News
I have two upcoming library shows in MA featuring my illustrations of horses: from covers for the Black Stallion and the Horse Diaries series, my fairytale illustrations, Hush Little Horsie by author Jane Yolen, and my biography…
CREATING A STORM OF HORSES COVER ILLUSTRATION
On the table above on the left are all the different pictures I used as reference when composing this illustration, which is one of the double-page illustrations in the story as well as a wrap-around cover. In…
Drawing Horses
In DRAWING HORSES, children’s book illustrator Ruth Sanderson demonstrates her method of drawing realistic horses in 25 step-by-step lessons, with commentary and tips in each lesson, as well as details of her pencil techniques. This 80-page book…
The World of Horses
This coloring book for adults has thirty-six beautiful horse pictures for you to color, all converted to grayscale from my many, many horse illustrations. It includes covers from two popular series, the Black Stallion series and the…
A Storm of Horses
An inspiring picture book about Rosa Bonheur, the most famous female painter of her century, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the artist’s birth In a stunning ode to underrepresented women everywhere, award-winning illustrator Ruth…
A Starred Review for A Storm of Horses!
“Inspired by watching her father at work, young Rosa Bonheur dreamed of creating her own paintings and supporting herself someday. It was an unconventional, impractical notion in nineteenth-century France, but with her father’s guidance and her talent…
BOOK NEWS: New Release: DRAWING HORSES (Dec. 2021)
For years I have wanted to create a book on how to draw horses. Well, I’ve finally done it! It is 80 detailed pages. You can either order it on Amazon , or get a signed copy HERE. This is the…
How to Draw a Unicorn
This is a close-up of a unicorn head that I painted for a collector’s plate series years ago. Follow the steps below to draw him. These are similar to the steps for drawing horse heads in my…
How I Draw Horses
Different artists each have their own way of approaching how to draw horses. My book, Drawing Horses, is just one way. My method is based on the observation of real horses, usually ones I have photographed myself,…