Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Long time no update?

Hard to believe I haven't touched this blog in five years... a massive five years. I couldn't even begin to tell you what I've been up to in those five years.

But I am back, beginning to pick up the pencil, paint brush, sculpting tools and getting back into the "arty feel" - I have to say, during those five years, I pretty much lost my muse and all motivation to even look at a model horse, let alone anything else art related.Well I lie, I did try my hand at pixel art for a game that my partner-at-the-time was working on - but that fell in a hole when the relationship started breaking down, and eventually came to an end. I was super happy with the little characters that were being built for that though, and I will cherish those little pieces of artwork. Learning to do pixel art, as well the animation for them was a lot of fun to say the least.

But now ideas are starting to flow, and already I have designs and customs in mind, and I'm slowly restocking the art supplies - sadly my tub of Apoxie Sculpt has long expired and is no longer workable. I would be surprised if it still was after 5 years of being untouched. In the mean time, I have completed an old paint job that I started probably about 5 years ago, and never got to finish - so with some details added and completed, a Giselle/Valentine repaint was long finished. Her inspiration was the gorgeous bay sabino Thoroughbred mare (whose name escapes me right now) that is owned by Flying Colors Farm.

She'll be posted up for sale at some point when I manage to snap some decent (not-using-my-iPhone-camera) photo's. I'll be setting a starting price on her at $250 USD.


The next piece in the words is a repainted Silver, into a bay roan (yup, the sabino Giselle riled up the roan bug in me again!) - so I thought I would try out a slight new technique in mixing the 'roan hair' colours to see how it turns out. So far, I'm only in the roaning out detail stage, before I dull down the extreme, blunt detail of the hairs with some white pigment to blend it all together.

This is the only photo I have so far:



More in progress shots of him to come - and yes, he will be another one for sale when completed and when I dust off the old photo shooting area and find a camera that works (sadly my old digital SLR is d.e.a.d.).

The other thing I got to doing was dusting off the old Dremel and started cutting apart a Smarty Jones model whose paint job just wasn't working for me - he didn't want to be a simple repaint anymore, he wanted some spunk and character added to him. So, he will slowly morph into a misbehaving Warmblood/Sport-horse who is refusing to go near that spooky jump!

Other art stuff? Well I'm working on some glass candle holders (for tea light candles) with feathered designs on them made from paper (even better; made from old books) which I'll post up when completed.

I've also starting thinking of Christmas gifts for friends - with one idea being a sculpted book cover for a journal/notepad type book, with Rocket Racoon as the cover. But we'll see how that goes and if I get to actually making that one become a reality.

So welcome back - and hello again :)

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