Dese Progress

Well, it's been a busy busy two weeks here with finishing horses and a big snow storm! The grey minis are all done and were delivered on time to have a great show last weekend. Their galleries will be posted once I get a couple more horses done. Speaking of, here is the grey Deseoso now! One if his sides doesn't quite match the other so that's next on the agenda. Then it's finishing off his legs in oils, and then his mane, tail and other details in acrylics. All of the pics are clickable for large versions:

In Progress

Happy Holidays everyone and early best wishes for the new year! Here's a quick update on the horses in progress. All are clickable for bigger pics.

Dese's head is nearly done; there are a few touchups and "oomphs" to do there, but it's getting close. The rest is just a dapple basecoat laying out basically where stuff goes and needs a lot of work yet.

Fenwick is pretty much done with his body color. He needs a couple touchups and then he gets his mane and tail and pretty red bow!

This Working Girl also just has her first dapple coat, but it went on so nice I probably only have one or two coats to go to finish her body. :-D

And last but not least, Mini Nahar is going to be a grey sabino with lots of nice roaned out edges to his markings. Lots of work to do there!

In Progress

Well hi there! It seems like hardly any time at all has passed since the last blog post, but the date stamp proves otherwise... Much of that time was spent finishing up Deseoso, so there hasn't been much to share anyway! A couple new minis worked their way into the schedule and they haven't been seen here yet. So without any further ado, the finished horses (pictures are clickable for full galleries):

Deseoso in semi-leopard appy

"Denny", portrait of the horse from "The Man From Snowy River" on Valor

"Tator Tot", chestnut Imp

Portrait of Amy Widman's horse, "Traveller" on G1 SM Arab Mare:

There are some new things to share as well. These horses are all going to be some flavor of dapple grey. Some will be rosier than others and their shades vary from mostly dark to completely greyed out:

And last but not least, these are all quick mockups of medallions I am working on as time allows. They're very rough at the moment, but they're fleshed out enough to give you an idea of what they will look like. The theme for the round shapes is "horses at play" and the theme for the rectangles is "horses interacting with stable elements."

Denny

Well, I was going to wait until I was done with Dese and do one batch of photos with both him and Denny. But I just couldn't resist getting some outdoors shots with Denny this evening! You can click on the pic for a much larger (and not grossly compressed) version.

In Progress

Hey, I thought of a view you haven't seen yet! (It's clickable for a large version.)

This is his first coat of oils on the underside of his barrel. He'll need another coat to brighten up the whites and fill the spots, but this is the last thing to do before I can move on to his lower legs. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, woo-hoo!

In Progress

Denny has eyeballs! Dese has had more work done too, but I won't bore you all with more pictures since he still looks pretty much the same to a camera. But as of today Denny (Valor) here is ready for his hair. I wish I could start right away, but I can't risk getting the hair out and having it float into Dese's paint job, so it will have to wait until that is done. D'oh!

In Progress

The hardest paint job ever! (Pic is clickable for a large version.) I am still slowly progressing on Deseoso. The front half of his left side now just needs some tweaks but it's getting there. I just started on the oil coat for his blanket half tonight. Right now there is white roany paint over his spots; the next coat will bring his real spots as well as some additional roaning and softening of things like the rib barring. I wish I had some pictures of other horses to show you, but he has been my life so far this month!