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t could be due to a love kles and the folds in their uniforms and Though he attempted an art class
of the fluid movement the motion just kind of went with that. in school, it didn’t last long before the
of sports. It might be That's what I did, is I basically picked analytical young man was learning and
the fact, as a “military apart every inch of the player and came practicing on his own again.
brat,” he was moving ev- up with (the whole).” “I actually tried to take an art class
ery couple of years while
growing up. Whatever
the case, Colorado artist
Bruce Makinney prefers
movement in his art, and
he prefers it as realistic
as possible.
Left: Personable
“I want to correctly
artist Bruce
Makinney smiles
convey a horse’s move-
during an interview
ment, motion, and pow-
at his home studio
er. That’s exactly what I’m going for,”
in Castle Rock,
Colorado. “My
said Makinney from his home studio
art is my outlet,”
on the outskirts of the rugged and pic-
Makinney stated
turesque town of Castle Rock, located
with conviction.
“It is definitely
south of Denver.
my way of getting
Not only does Makinney’s art inspire
away from things.”
“amazing” adjectives, his path to get-
Photo © Lincoln
Rogers
ting that art noticed and recognized by
the public is amazing in its own right.
As a young boy, the self-taught art-
ist was always drawing, but he really
wanted to be a professional football
player. When genetics capped his
height at 5’9”, cutting short his pro-
fessional football dream, it wasn’t long
before he was drawing football-related
pictures based on photographs from
the pages of Sports Illustrated maga-
zine. True to form, it was movement
and action in those images that caught
his attention.
“Wanting to be a sports guy, I would
get Sports Illustrated and I would sit
there and draw football pictures from
the magazine, and I would try to get it
as accurate as possible,” described this
personable artist (and full-time com-
puter programmer) about his pre-teen
years. “The wrinkles in the jerseys and
that kind of stuff as they are moving,
that was really interesting to me. I
looked more at the details of the wrin-
Above: Colorado artist Bruce Makinney works on a piece in his home studio while a recently finished
painting inspired by the HITS Desert Circuit hangs in the background. Photo © Lincoln Rogers
Left: Makinney's "World Class", a pastel equine
artwork chosen as the 2009 HITS Desert Circuit
Official Horse Show Program cover art.
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