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Category Archives: Chestnut

This category covers all chestnut variations including flaxen and black chestnut.

Southern Gentleman

Posted on January 24, 2011 at 8:00 am

Southern Gentleman

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Standardbred/Pacer (G2)
Color: Liver Chestnut
Gallery: Chestnut
Medium: Acrylics and Pastels
Status: Painted 2005 and Sold Nov 2005

There is something calming about painting a solid horse with no chrome to distract you from the details. It shifts the focus to the blending and the range of color you can get out of a coat, while still having it look realistic.

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Main Street Bubba

Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:00 am

Main Street Bubba

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Shire (G2)
Color: Flaxen Chestnut
Gallery: Chestnut
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

I can’t for the life of me remember if I named this little guy or if the person who bought the custom painting slot did! I do love the name though, especially since he was painted to resemble a parade draft that the buyer had seen once. Continue reading →

Sierra Tango

Posted on December 29, 2010 at 8:00 am

Sierra Tango

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Scrambling Foal (G2)
Color: Flaxen Chestnut
Gallery: Chestnut
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

This little guy/gal was an Add-a-Foal that was sold with Foxtrot Echo. I did a lot of ‘mini-me’ customs when I was selling on eBay. (Hey, for $5 a foal it wasn’t a bad deal!) Continue reading →

Coin of the Realm

Posted on December 27, 2010 at 6:00 am

Coin of the Realm

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Saddlebred (G2)
Color: Golden Chestnut Minimal Sabino
Gallery: Sabino
Medium: Acrylics and Pastels
Status: Painted 200? and Home Herd

Every so often I paint a horse that I know I will never sell. (More often I sell horses I later regret, so it’s nice to have the flip side of the coin once in a while!) Continue reading →

Cajun Cooking

Posted on September 10, 2010 at 7:18 am

Cajun Cooking

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Standardbred/Pacer (G2)
Color: Flaxen Red Chestnut
Gallery: Chestnut
Medium: Acrylics, Pastels
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

This little fella was one of my ‘I need more pacers!’ paint jobs. (I had a bad habit of simply grabbing bodies and painting one of everything… so this is my ‘chestnut’ from that adventure). Continue reading →

Profitina’s Mini Me

Posted on August 30, 2010 at 8:00 am

Profitina

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Paso Fino (G2)
Color: Chestnut Frame Overo
Gallery: Overo
Medium: Acrylics and Pastels
Status: Painted in 200? and Sold 200?

This is a portrait horse that was painted for Emily Woodward (yay for notes!) and that I was actually rather proud of the way it turned out.

I did get better at the portrait models as I went along, but I was always petrified that I was going to mess them up. Doing a normal custom for someone is easy, a bay is a bay is a bay… but when it’s your bay, then it’s Bay with capital B. Continue reading →