Work In Progress

This is a little post to show you some of the pieces I am currently working on :)

This is my in progress bench. The prepped horses on the left are all due for painting. The ones in the middle are being worked on, horses on the far right are complete and waiting shipping.


From left to right:
1. Rainbow Unicorn Tutorial Piece
2. Blue Roan Lonesome Glory Commission Me
3. Black Schleich Shire Foal Sale Piece
4. Bay Pinto Stablemate Foal Sale Piece
5. Liver Chestnut Dressage Horse Commission Piece
Various completed customs!
6. Mini Draft Horse to Pegasus

With the flash:



The Rainbow unicorn is awaiting crystals, the lonesome is awaiting conformation before being sealed and glossed and the shire foal is drying but nearly done



Shire foal is nearly complete, pinto foal has had first coat


With flash


Dressage horse awaiting conformation


Little unicorn all complete


Heavy horse pegasus, his wings are currently drying propped up by two stands!

Pink Unicorn

I think I might be going through one of my phases again....I've just finished another unicorn and I've got another pegasus with his wings drying in the studio!

Anyway I did this little cutey today, she has been named Antidote, she is for sale (£13.50 + postage).

Tuesday

Tuesday was another of those weird days where I had a lot of other things to do so things were all a little not normal...

As we didn't have EU law in the morning and I had no food I persuaded the husband to drive me to Tesco so I could do a big shop...that way I won't have to go shopping again for ages freeing up more time to work!

Once we got back I did a brief amount of work (that tort case from yesterday....) before I had to go home to go to the dentist..

Despite being in agony I was told that it is not my wisdom tooth (although it feels exactly the same as the other one which they had to remove) and that it is actually my jaw....didn't even get some decent pain killers....

Once back I proceeded to do an hours worth of land law reading on registered land, particularly important as I'm missing two lectures for the law buddying (not good I know). The Dixon textbook is really good though, one of my favourites so that is helpful at least!

I then did 15 minutes of Spanish before doing half an hour of EU reading and heading off to Tort law. I ran out of coffee in tort law (never good) think I might start taking two flasks with me, these end of day lectures are not good for my energy levels they sort of hit me in the lull before my sedatives wear off and whilst I'm still feeling tired.

Once home my husband cooked (always good, I have him well trained) before updating my website with some new products requested by a customer (see I'm a nice business owner I'm always open to customer requests, if they ask they get most of the time) before doing some work on my cross stitch bookmark (I would add a picture but currently it is a load of red blobs on a red strip of aida so not particularly interesting).

More law buddying tomorrow and the first internal debate (v. nervous about how that will go).

Cat x

Two More Commission Pieces

These guys had their paint work finished last week but I didn't get around to sealing and glossing them today.

Their new owner is Sarah Hindmarsh and she seems happy with them :D

First up is a G3 Percheron. Sarah asked for him to be pinto in any colour apart from black...so she got bay! But you can see why I chose it, he's a very handsome boy!







Next up is another Percheron. She was more specific with this one and asked for white grey.






His face is just to die for!

Classic Bridle

I think I posted you some in progress pictures of this bridle but here it is finished.

It is a Classic scale bridle in brown with a fixed cavesson noseband. It has a snaffle bit (cast) and is made to fit the Safari Clydesdale mold.

The bridle itself is for sale if you are interested and they are available to order.

It's nice to do a bridle for a heavy horse, not something I do every day!

How To Make A Rainbow Unicorn - The Paint Work

This is where you can be really creative! I've gone for quite a simply design but use your creativity and design something gorgeous! I'll tell you how I created mine just incase you want to go for the same look.

Step 1

The first stage is the overall base coat and coat in general as I'm only using two layers. I mixed a bright pink paint with some white to dull it down a bit so it wasn't completely in your face!

Cover the whole model in this colour and leave to dry



Step 2

Now it's time to highlight the details. I used a lilac glitter paint to do the details.

Firstly I added a little heart to either side of the horses rump.

Then I painted the hooves, horn and eyes in the lilac glitter paint :)



Now leave her to dry :)

How To Make a Rainbow Unicorn - Prepping

The next stage is to prep the model, don't do this until all your sculpting is completely dry :)

Prepping is relatively easy so there is only one image...

Step 1

Sand down all the heavy seams and seals from your model to create a completely smooth surface.

Step 2

Now prime your model. I use Games Workshop Skull White Spray Paint as my primer because I like the finish it gives, use whatever you like to use or whatever you can buy reasonably cheaply. Don't buy cheap cheap primer because it creates a glossy finish that airbrushed paints and pastels don't stick to properly.

Once your model is primed he should be nice and white :D