I love when your beautiful artwork and photos are added to the gallery, but the gallery itself is in need of an upgrade so I thought I’d start posting new submissions and “best of” here in the Arts & Crafts channel. First up, the latest photo submission…

by Tuft| Tuft here with a photo from a fun horse show I went to in late summer. One of my favorite exhibitions to watch was the showmanship classes. To see how all the horses listened to their handlers on command was amazing…

by HorseFeathers | This colored pencil sketch is entitled “Concentration” because of the focus of both horse and rider needed in dressage and practically every discipline. This summer I have been trying to concentrate on my riding, how to improve it and concentrate on the horse beneath me…

by Sabino Mesteno | After 50 years of dreaming about and drawing horses, I have finally achieved my dreams…

by HorseFeathers | Any of y’all have a hankering for a few sweets? How about your horses? Well I would like to share a few yummy recipes with you. I have personally tried them out on my horsey friends and they give it 4 hooves…

by Violet Inkpen | Sometimes life can be… well, dull. But there is always something fun and horsey to do!

by Pony Princess | In the town of Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, is the world’s largest equine sculpture of eight bronze horses that gallop and jump over a man-made mountain…

by Meghan | Horses are all different. Some are big, some are small, some are short, some are tall, some are real, some are made of, well…

by Syd | Scrapbooking is a fun thing to do about horses. So I’m going to tell how to spend those summer days and put those summer memories into scrapbooks…

by Mustang_Heart | From the earliest forms of cave drawings, to Leonardo Da Vinci, and to today’s modern artists, you’ll see that horses always seem to find their way into an artist’s work – and who could blame them? With so many different breeds, personalities, gaits, postures, and uses, an artist could spend her whole life creating nothing but masterpieces filled with horses. Maybe you too were inspired by the amazing horse, and picked up a pencil or a paintbrush and tried to imitate the horse’s unique body shape, only to walk away disappointed, feeling that you have no artistic talent. Now, ask yourself this – did you ever think you just had the wrong approach to it?