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Category Archives: Bay

This category covers everything from the dark black-bays all the way up to the flashy red-bay colorings.

Everyday Joe

Posted on April 8, 2011 at 8:00 am

Everyday Joe

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Standardbred/Pacer (G2)
Color: Bay
Gallery: Bay
Medium: Acrylics, Pastels
Status: Painted 2005 and Sold Feb 2005

This little guy was part of a set of three (bay-chestnut-black) models that I painted in order to bulk up the Standardbred section of my gallery (Cajun Cooking and Whistling in the Dark were the other two horses). Continue reading →

Sakes Alive

Posted on April 7, 2011 at 10:00 am

Sakes Alive

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Thoroughbred (G2)
Color: Bay Splash Overo
Gallery: Overo
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

Sakes Alive was my first attempt at adding mapping to a pinto pattern. It didn’t come out quite as well as I had hoped, but this was still pretty early in my learning curve, so it’s not horrible for a first try. Continue reading →

Terminal Velocity

Posted on March 22, 2011 at 8:00 am

Terminal Velocity

Make/Artist: Mandi Hickman (No Artist Website)
Scale: Micro Mini
Mold: MH Copyright
Color: Dark Bay
Gallery: Realistic Bay
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Home Herd

This little guy has the honor of being the first micro mini I ever painted. He was also the first artist resin I ever bought (and the first micro resin too boot!) That’s a lot of firsts for someone so small, but he’s got an ego that’s more than up for the challenge. Continue reading →

Hell’s Little Angel

Posted on March 8, 2011 at 8:00 am

Hell's Little Angel

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Scrambling Foal (G2)
Color: Bay Splash Overo
Gallery: Overo
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted in 200? and Sold 200?

Avast! This little gal is out to take over the field and teach those colts to walk the plank!

This little gal was the first of this mold that I started fiddling around with bases for. The mold is very unstable and tend to fall over if you look at them sideways, so I had been looking for ways to make them a little less domino prone. Continue reading →

Double Dip

Posted on February 27, 2011 at 8:00 am

Double Dip

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Dark Bay Frame Overo
Gallery: Overo
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted in 200? and Sold 200?

I got this little guy in a body lot with no idea who painted him to start with. He was a flat black and white paint job, but his pattern didn’t quite follow the frame overo rules. Continue reading →

Blood Price

Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:00 am

Blood Price

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Warmblood (G2)
Color: Bay Sabino
Gallery: Realistic Sabino
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

This little guy is one of the minor resculpts that I did, just a smidge of epoxy to change the profile of the face. It’s not enough to make him look off when he’s by himself but it gives him a nice pop when he’s lined with with other warmbloods. Continue reading →

Oidhche Tairneach

Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:00 am

Oidhche Tairneach

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Shire (G2)
Color: Dark Bay Sabino
Gallery: Realistic Sabino
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

Ah backgrounds! You can always tell the photos from the last few horses I painted because they either have the plain felt backgrounds or my photo show setups.

Mind you, I never got around to actually photoshowing, but the backdrops were still fun to make! Continue reading →

Nachtmaus

Posted on January 11, 2011 at 8:00 am

Natchmaus

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Shetland Pony (G2)
Color: Dark (Black) Bay
Gallery: Bay
Medium: Acrylics and Pastels
Status: Painted 2005 and Sold 2005?

This little guy is named in German (because Bablefish is my friend) and in theory translates into ‘Night Mouse.’ I had a bad habit of misspelling it as Natchmaus, so who the heck knows what he’s called at this point. Most likely his new owner renamed him something less whimsical anyway. (Woe) Continue reading →

Leko

Posted on December 30, 2010 at 8:00 am

Leko

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Arabian Mare (G1)
Color: Bay
Gallery: Realistic Bay
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

This little gal was a favor for a friend and was in need of a little TLC when I got her. I think she turned out pretty well considering that I hadn’t done a lot of sculpting at the time. Plus I was finally cresting the learning curve with basic paint jobs, so that side of the equation came out well. Continue reading →

Lace

Posted on December 28, 2010 at 6:00 am

Lace

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Standing Foal (G1)
Color: Bay Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

I think this little gal was a custom ordered portrait horse that I think came in on the same order with Sierra. Someday I will find the notes and all these little mysteries will be cleared up… but for now I’ll just have to guess. Continue reading →

Fire Eater

Posted on December 25, 2010 at 6:00 am

Fire Eater

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Saddlebred (G2)
Color: Bay Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics and Pastels
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

I know that this little gal was a custom order and that she was one of my later customs, but that’s all I have on her right now. I’m pretty sure she was sold as a pair with Scoville’s Ghost, but I’m not sure to whom or when. Continue reading →

Leanaí Dóiteáin

Posted on December 22, 2010 at 10:00 am

Leanaí Dóiteáin

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Saddlebred (G2)
Color: Bay (Minimal Sabino)
Gallery: Bay
Medium: Acrylics and Pastels
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

Leanaí Dóiteáin means Fire Child in Gaelic, if Google Translate is to be believed and she was one of my later custom orders (as you can tell by the photos). Continue reading →

Fuego Lento

Posted on November 2, 2010 at 8:00 am

Fuego Lento

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Paso Fino (G2)
Color: Bay Minimal Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

Fuego Lento, loosely translated is Slow Fire and part of my ‘mutilate foreign languages’ kick of naming things.

This little gal was one of my favorite non-portrait customs that came out of this mold. (Interestingly I think I ended up doing more portrait horses on this mold than anything else.) The bay coloring had this lovely copper shimmer to it and the blending was nice and smooth. Continue reading →

Magpie Summer

Posted on August 16, 2010 at 8:00 am

Magpie Summer

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Saddlebred (G1)
Color: Dark Bay
Gallery: Realistic Bay
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 2005 and Sold Jan 2005

This little lady was my first shot at painting this older mold. You’d think by the time I got to her that I would have done one already… but I always feel odd customizing the older molds. There’s something sort of wasteful about customizing things you can’t replace. At least she was body quality, so I didn’t feel as guilty! Continue reading →

Fancy Alibi

Posted on July 22, 2010 at 5:45 pm

Fancy Alibi

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Saddlebred (G2)
Color: Bay
Gallery: Bay
Medium: Acrylics and Pastels
Status: Painted 2005 and Sold Feb 2005

This is one of the many many Saddlebred resculpts I did. It’s one of the simpler ones, all I did here was removed the mane and crop the tail. The ribbons are done in layers of paint rather than sculpting, which is sort of the lazy way, I supposed, but I think it came out well. I never really did master the art of sculpting little tiny things in epoxy– something to work on in the future! Continue reading →

Gumi Bear

Posted on July 12, 2010 at 5:36 am

Gumi Bear

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Shetland Pony (G2)
Color: Bay Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics and Pastels
Status: Painted 2005 and Sold Oct 2005

While I remember painting this guy in the midst of a ‘must paint ponies!’ tangent, I don’t remember much about him other than that. He was painted towards the end of my run as a small business and thus benefits from good photos and pastel shadings. Continue reading →

Wet Paint

Posted on June 29, 2010 at 8:00 am

Wet Paint

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Bay Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics and Pastels
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

Someday I will figure out why on earth the white is getting so washed out in the photos when the rest of the horse is coming out right! (arg) Continue reading →