I am running a new E-bay auction, this time of my original piece 'Gazing'.

100% of the proceeds will go towards an amazing effort by equine vets Pat Sells and Laura Heaps, who are driving to Gambia this month to support the Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust. They are driving a 4x4 all the way from the UK to the Trust Clinic in Sambel Kunda, West Africa. The vehicle is needed by the clinic to continue its important work providing free veterinary care to local villages and markets. After driving nearly 4,000 miles, they will deliver the vehicle and much needed veterinary supplies to the clinic. The following months will be spent working as volunteer vets and collecting much needed samples to investigate the myriad of tropical diseases affecting animals there. The vehicle will remain at the clinic as an essential tool in delivering help to the animals that need it.

For more information, please visit their Just Giving page: http://www.justgiving.com/gambiaroadtrip

Please help support this amazing effort and charity in providing much needed veterinary care to the horses, donkeys and ponies in Gambia, by supporting this E-bay auction. As usual, there is a 99p start price, no reserve and free postage.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-Equine-Art-Alexandra-Kitt-/170704222950?pt=UK_art_drawings_GL&hash=item27bec3bae6

'Focus'
Approx 11" x 7" (280cm x 180cm)
Graphite on Bristol Board
Original available

I am really pleased to report that I have finished my new original drawing 'Focus'. This has taken me about 15 hours on and off over the last few weeks. I have really enjoyed including such detail in this drawing, if you look closely you can see all the tiny hairs, which were probably the most time consuming of this whole piece!

As part of my clear out I have listed another little portrait on to E-bay.

This time is it a little postcard sized drawing of a Showjumper on his horse, on Bristol Board. This auction has a low start price with no reserve, and free postage. I don't expect it to make much, however I am hoping that someone will be able to enjoy this drawing, rather than it sitting out of sight.

Please take a look - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-Equine-Art-Alexandra-Kitt-/170697923837?pt=UK_art_drawings_GL&hash=item27be639cfd

Non art related blog entry now. I took my ex-racehorse to his first ever show yesterday (also his first ever 'public' outing since he raced) to have a go at a couple of dressage tests.

Really really pleased with how he went! I went with no expectations other than he may be really really naughty, but I was pleasantly surprised. After some bouncing around in the warm up (well, we don't have a school at home, or other horses working around us, so a busy warm up was bound to be very exciting!), he went in and did a really chilled walk and trot test, with some really nice parts to it, and only a couple of spooks (he's never seen white boards before!).

We then did prelim 7 and again some nice parts to that too, although I did manage an error of course - oops. We didn't come anywhere (mid-range so at least not the worst!), and got 54% and 52%, but I'm delighted all the same as I hadn't practiced either test, or any elements from them, as I just wanted to go for a bit of a learning experience for him. We had some constructive comments from the judge, nothing unexpected, and also some nice comments too for the good parts. All in all a really good day!! Just need to work on the loading bit now as that could be slightly more straightforward..

I'm currently half way through drawing a new original piece. I've been trying to take some pictures of it 'in progress', so here are a couple:

More pictures of this to come as I carry on with it. I also had my first foray into selling some work on E-bay this week; perhaps not the most successful venture, however I hope the winning bidder is happy with the drawing - will be posted to you tomorrow!

I hope to try and list some more pieces on E-bay over the coming weeks as I am trying to have a bit of a clear out - I have quite a few sitting around and no where to really display them; hopefully they can go