What I'm Doing this Weekend

Sadly, I'm not able to go to Kentucky this weekend. But I though I'd do a quick post to show you a few of horses I'll be working on.

First up are the two Truffle resins in the photo above. I'm having a lot of fun with the unicorn. His color was inspired by a certain frozen beverage that was all over the internet earlier this year.

I just started painting the leopard appaloosa last night. Right now I'm working on getting the layout of his spots right. With appaloosas, getting the spots right is probably the most important thing. It doesn't matter how nice everything else about the paint job is if the spotting pattern is unrealistic or appears contrived. I see some things on this guy that need changing already, but that's easy enough to do at this stage.

Next is the pulling Shire, whom I've decided to call Boxer, at least for now. He's still a mess, and the gold bead eyes are kind of creepy, but I'm making progress.

Lastly is another new sculpture, which will hopefully start to look more like a Thoroughbred at some point. I'm tentatively calling this one 'Hello Seattle.'

So if you are going to Kentucky this weekend, I hope you have fun, and if you're not going, at least know that you're not alone!

In the Studio





Tonight I thought I'd share a couple of picture of models I'm currently working on.

 

First up is a Truffle resin I'm resculpting to a unicorn. This guy was a second that came out of the mold with an incomplete tail. He is one of the few Truffles I've made so far that has a magnetic base. There's still a bit more resculpting and a lot of prepping to do before he's ready to paint.

And this is a new sculpture I'm working on. He's 1:12 scale and still very much a mess at this point, but hopefully you can sort of see what I'm going for. I've gotten a bit further since this picture was taken; he doesn't need a block of polymer clay to stand any more and all the aluminum foil has been covered up.