Well the little Brabant resin has arrived, and I have to say, I am super impressed with the detail packed into this small guy!

I had a box waiting for me at home - I haven't seen one of these for awhile!

Oh the memories this brings back!

Mummified pony!!!

So cute!! I do apologize for the TERRIBLE phone photo's, unfortunately the camera we have is packed away and without batteries at the moment, and well, fading light... But the detail in this guy is incredible!! The photo's the artist took of the resin just do not do this guy justice at all.

He even has little hair details on his flank!!This makes me super excited to pull out my new size 0 paint brush and dive in there for that hair by hair detail for his roaning.

A quick snap with his new laminated breed-information card which will travel back to the US with him to his owner.

And here he is, joining Raajah and Mini Darcy on my table - he will be the priority above the other two now, they will be sales pieces in the future, but the commission always takes first spot.

Prepping will begin now, and hopefully I can get some good weather on the weekend to prime this guy and get some base work done on him.

Photo spam over with for now -- hopefully some painting updates will start to leak in soon!

I haven't had a commission in the studio for a long time, mostly because of moving to another country, and the fact that I got burnt out and burnt pretty badly the last time I opened my commission books. I worked out that I can't have a bench of commissions staring me down waiting to be painted - it's just not something I can handle.

So I closed my books.

Now that I've moved, settled in (mostly) to a new country, I put the feelers out for a trade deal to get some of Sarah Mink's LOVELY Connemara models which she sculpted for Breyer in my hot little hands.

I now have my first commission in over 8 years making his way across that there pond over yonder, and heading his way down south to the land of the hobbits. And I will say, I am super excited about this little guy. He's a Brabant resin, stablemate scale, and when his owner said they wanted a roan done on him? Well, it was a deal.

The resin? "Cumulonimbus", sculpted by Anna Dobrowolska-Oczko - and the guy on the right is my inspiration for the coloration. I love my bay roans, they are a weakness. And I love the way this guy has roaning down the front of his face!


The Brabant, such a gorgeous breed:

Really do love these big draft breeds. I could drool over their pictures all day.

I will be posting pictures as I go on this boy, and of course, on the Rajah resin as well - I will no doubt be doing the same base coat on both these beauties, and then doing the roaning on the commission first.

I am also setting up my stream to be able to stream the painting of these resins as well - so if you haven't already, check out my stream at: http://www.twitch.tv/sophistique02 and look out for when I do a "Creative" stream. I currently stream gaming on there, but I will be doing some creative/art stuff as well in the very near future.

If you want to know when I go live, and what I'll be streaming - then follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sophistique02


On a side note: Want to know how excited I am about this guy? I've already done a reference card for his new owner if they so choose to use it for showing:

Even nicely laminated as well :) Just part of the new service I will offer (along with an artist CoA for the paint work) for my work!


Until next time - have fun painting and customizing!