Fractured ankle = more time to paint?

Yes... I fractured my ankle while trying to lock up a gate at work - sort of pathetic how I came to that injury with a gate when most people would assume I fell off a horse, or a horse jumped on me, or something 'horse-related' actually happened. But no... it was a gate, that was jammed on concrete, that I hauled on and got tangled up in. Very... impressive, right?

But, you have to make a positive out of the negative, and that positive is that between the times when the pain killers make me sick/tired/dizzy/in a haze, is time that I am actually painting and prepping models.

Two recent completions include these two:

Meet Benedicto (spanish for 'blessed')





He is of course, 'DeCaprio' who was scuplted by one of my favourite scupltors, Stacey Tumlinson. This guy just oozes such personality and softness and supplness - everything you want in a Warmblood, matched with that lovely neck and body structure. I was stoked to get a hold of this guy to be able to paint. And whilst this guy was a little unsure of his color, he actually did a color change half way through his base coats - he was going to be a black tobiano with cat-tracking, but during his base coats a friend of mine said he would look amazing if he went liver chestnut, and Benedicto said, 'oh may YES please!' and liver chestnut he went. He is inspired from the lovely Warmblood stallion Briar 899 with just a few small marking changes.

I'm hoping to proxy him at a US show in November and then have him home in time for our December show and then off to a show in January over the other side of Australia, then he'll most likely be for sale if he doesn't win me over more than he already has - in that case, he's already got a good friend of mine begging me to sell him to her :)

Next, meet miss Ashquar (Arabic for chestnut)





The super detailed 'Jezebel' resin by Sarah Rose - this girl is just beautiful in person, and also oozes a lot of personality. There isn't a bad angle you can photograph this mare from (but do excuse my grainy photo's, I'm still learning my new light tent set-up and camera).

I do believe my 'Gizelle' resin is now calling to me saying she wants to be a dappled liver chestnut :) In time my friend, in time... I'm practising my dappled version of my newly found love for liver chestnuts on a G1 'Silky Sullivan' stablemate, and if it is a win, then I believe she will get her wish. If it's a fail, well then I'm not going to do her any in-justice's.

Another one I have painted since my last post was a lovely liver chestnut roan sabino/overo 'Working Girl' resin, but I will do my best to get new (non blurry) photo's of her so I can show her off. She has being sold and will be with my good friend who also has her eyes on the 'DeCaprio' resin :)

Speaking of sales - Sanskrit sold to a lovely lady in Sweden, and I've already heard he recieved Champion at a recent photo show which qualifies him for the Swedish National Championships in November - best of luck to him and his new owner, I do hope I get an update in my email with some great news at his Swedish Live Show debute!