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Native Montanan who loves camping, four wheeling, taking wildlife photos and creating art. I mostly paint animals, and work in many different mediums. Lately I've found my own style of story paintings, which I love to create. https://donnaridgway.com
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"Snowfall at Winter Camp" 36X48 Did you ever catch snowflakes on your tongue when you were a kid? Maybe you still do it! That's what these horses are doing. #horse #horseart #equineart

Spring Hijinx was a finalist in the Bold Brush painting contest on FASO for the month of January. Got the letter today and it made me smile! #painting #horses #horseart

Doe and her yearling. They're visiting. #mammals #mammal #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Big horn ram. He was pawing through the snow for grass. It's been 20-30 below here for a couple weeks, supposed to warm up tomorrow! #bighornram #mountainsheep #wildlife #wildlifephoto #nature #naturephotography

"Sacred Mountain Camp" 16X16 Acrylic on Canvas Good things happen to people who come to this place when their hearts are good. #painting #equineart #horse #horseart #acrylic

A couple of fox paintings on Yupo plastic paper with watercolor. #fox #mammal #mammals #foxpainting #foxpaintings #watercolor #painting

Just a fast sketch. Coyote in winter, he has a thick coat, makes him look kind of wolf like. #sketch #art #mammal #mammals #predator

Downey woodpecker, he was supposed to be chowing down on the suet! #woodpecker #downeywoodpecker #bird #birdphotography

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Love these little guys. #chickadee #bird #birdphoto #wildlife #birdphotography

I stacked up some birds for you! #birds #birdfeeder #finch #naturephoto #birdphotography

Coopers Hawk sitting at the bottom of the bird feeders today. Every one is cold and hungry. It was 30 below last night with a wind chill up to 50 below. Makes me wonder how they survive. #birds #hawk #Coopershawk #birdphoto #bird #naturephoto

Old houses could tell so many stories. We liked the rounded roof on this addition. Who built it that way? Why did they build it like that? Can you imagine how happy the family was when they had an addition and more room in the home? #oldhouse #oldhousephoto #architecture

Coyote was hunting ducks, when he saw me there hiding and watching, he took off. I was camping with my cat, Scarlet at Freezout Lake. She loved to go camping! Robert decided to stay home that trip and he missed this sight. #coyote #mammal #mammals #wildlifephoto #wildlifephotography

We were lucky to get some photographs of jack rabbits. I love jack rabbits! We have plenty of cottontails in our yard, and we love them, but it's kind of rare and extra fun to see jack rabbits. They have such interesting faces and long legs. #rabbits #rabbitdrawing #jackrabbit #jackrabbits

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Watching birds at my feeders. Flicker grabbed a sparrow by the top of his head and shook him violently back and forth about 3 times then looked so proud of herself! #backyardbirdfeeder #flicker #birds #bird #woodpecker #birdphotos #birdphoto #birdphotography

"The Buffalo Jump" Bison have been spotted up on the bluff, the hunters are ready to drive them over the cliff! #art #artist #painting #acrylic #acrylicpainting #artforsale #artgallery #artoftheday #artwork #contemporaryart #western #westernart #westernpainting #westerndrawing #westernartist

"Two Buckskins" 16X20 #art #artist #painting #acrylic #acrylicpainting #landscapepainting #artforsale #artgallery #artoftheday #artwork #contemporaryart #western #westernart #westernpainting #westerndrawing #westernartist #equineart #horseart

This is my latest painting. I had to take a phone picture in the house, it's to cold and dark to take photos outside with the camera until our weather warms up and the wind isn't blowing....this has a slight yellow cast to it that isn't in the original. #art #equineart

Here's another carousel horse I painted long ago. I love carousel horses. #carousel #carouselhorse #art #painting

This is a carrot that grew in my garden last year. You can't help but laugh when you pull a carrot from the ground and it looks like this! I love my garden in summer so much. It has huge sunflowers, crazy carrots, lots of tomatoes... It's 10 below snowing today #garden #carrot #can'twaitforsummer

This is my goimagine shop. I plan to upload a few more items today. They'll be some of other paintings of animals. :) Come by and visit and see what's there. #art #artist #donnaridgway #horseart #equineart

This is how my recent paintings begin. They have many layers and are just intuitive marks and colors. I love this process so much. It's like following a path, where one thing leads to another but you have no idea what the final result will be. #painting #art

-3 degrees here today. It's supposed to snow but we haven't had any yet. It's a good day to look at old photos of my family. #horses #ancestors #oldphotos

A young lion painting of mine. #lion #lionpainting #wildlifeart #painting #art

Some years, we have little streams and waterfalls every where in the mountains. They're so beautiful and refreshing. #waterfall #nature #naturephoto #naturephotography

Snowshoe hare. It was almost spring when I took this photo, he was changing to his summer colors and the white was almost gone. #naturephoto #mammal #mammals #wildlife #wildlifephoto

Progression of a fast loose sketch using two colors. Running horse. #watercolor #horseart #equineart

Gorgeous Mule deer buck with "friend". #mammals #mammal #wildlifephoto #wildlifephotographer #muledeerbuck

Coyote that sat and watched us. We hardly ever get to see them, so it was fun. #coyote #coyotephoto #wildlife #wildlifephoto #canine

This is my favorite mountain in the Rocky Mountain Front. It's called The Old Man of the Mountain. I don't know how it got it's name, I should look it up. #mountain #landscape #landscapephoto

This cow took one look at us and ran yesterday. I don't know why, lol. I guess we looked scary! #cow #cowphoto #cowphotograph

Female kestrel from our short jaunt around the neighborhood yesterday. #bird #birdphotograph #kestrel

And just for fun, here's a cow. :) If she makes you smile I'm happy. #cow #cowpainting #cowart #mammals #animalart

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I didn't have a model for this carousel zebra, I just made him up because I wanted a zebra carousel. :) Very fun to paint him. #carouselhorse #horseart #zebra #equineart #art #artist

An angus bull I painted long ago. #art #cowart #artist

Yesterday I scrubbed a canvas back to the original canvas, and regessoed it. Must have been oil primed. That was a job, involving paint remover. Started a 36X48 painting. Sanded-gessoed a wood panel. Older painting below. #artist #painting #art #horse #horsepainting #horseart #equineart

Another of my string art experiments. Wad up a length of string, pull it out a bit and throw it on a canvas. Try to make something of the shape. "Dancing on Buffalo Ridge" I love to experiment, I can not help it. That is why you will see so much stuff here. #painting #art #mixedmedia #artist

We were camped out watching the elk rut. It snowed, deep wet heavy snow. Who cares? It was wonderful to see the elk in the snow! We go prepared, who cares how long we were stuck there...there were elk to watch! I made this painting using one of my photos as reference. #elk #mammals #elkrut