The horse trough in the barn yard had a thick coating of ice that I had to break through and remove, although Tai did help by putting his front feet into the trough to create the first hole in the ice.
Today, I wanted to go through a box of old sketches and ideas for paintings and see if I wanted to develop them further, file them away for the future or discard them as not something I was no longer interested in doing anymore.I was very surprised to find the original outline sketches for the Ontario Pinto Horse Association logo that I did in 1979.
Around that time, the two Pinto Horse Groups in Ontario (Great Lakes Pinto Horse Association and the Maple Leaf Pinto Horse Association) joined together to have larger numbers of horses for shows and to remain financially solvent.
It was decided that we would use the name Ontario Pinto Horse Association, but I wanted to keep both groups in the logo, so I included the Great Lakes in the map and added the Maple Leaf with the Province of Ontario.
Next, I did outline sketches of each of the four types of Pinto horses.Stock type, which is a Western horse of predominately Quarter Horse or Paint breeding and conformation.
Pleasure type, which is of Arabian, Andalusian or Morgan breeding and conformation.
Hunter type, which is an English horse generally having some Thoroughbred breeding and conformation.
Saddle type, which is a gaited horse having American Saddlebred, Tennessee Walking Horse or Hackney breeding and conformation.
From there I moved the outline drawing of each of the four types around on the map of Ontario until I was pleased with their location and transferred the images onto the map.
I also wanted to have the two pattern types represented as well, so I made the Hunter type at the top of the map an Overo. The pattern looks like a solid coloured horse with white markings and having jagged spots of white that usually starts on the horse's sides or underbelly spreading toward the back, legs, neck and tail. The white almost never crosses the back.
The remaining three Pintos I did as Tobianos. In this pattern the coat appears to be white with large, flowing patches of colour often overlapping. The spots of colour usually originate from the head, neck, chest, flank and buttock, often including the tail.
When I was about to darken the Great Lakes, I realized that I had to move the Maple Leaf to give it a more prominent position. Lastly, I put a circle around the logo and in capital letters put the new name.
I looked online to see if the Ontario Pinto Horse Association was still around and I was pleased to see they are and my logo is still being used with a few changes.
