Shetland Pony Studies

This morning I visited Snug Harbor Farm with 2 other artists to do some plein air painting.  It's been rainging here for weeks now...  I decided to do gesture drawings and studies of the Mini Shetland ponies.  Most of these took only a few seconds. 

At one point after I had been sketching for a couple of hours, one of the female ponies went out into the field and actually stood side-ways with her head up, and stayed that way for a few minutes so I could do these 2 larger sketches!  I concentrated on the head and didn't get to draw her luxurious mane.  Tomorrow I'll post some photos of them, and this female, who was very curious about my continued presence and activities!