Category Archives: Paso Fino

D’Lembrança

Posted on January 29, 2012 at 6:00 am
D’Lembrança

D’Lembrança

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Paso Fino (G2)
Color: Golden Bay
Gallery: Bay
Medium: Liquitex Artist’s Color Acrylics (Ivory Black, Gesso, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna), Sargent Art Chalk Pastels (Earthtone), and Prismacolor Pencils (964, 1056, 1052, 1074)
Status: Painted January 2012 and For Sale

D’Lembrança means Of Memory in Portuguese and she’s one of the few fully prepped bodies pulled from my old body box. It’s amazing how well gesso holds up over the years! Continue reading →

Keno

Posted on December 31, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Keno

Keno

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

This little guy is a portrait of Jet’s Chief Keno owned by Sherry Foxworth of Rocking S Farm. He was one of the last portrait horses that I painted and the one I’m proudest of. He’s the best match so far from horse to model, although he wasn’t quite as complicated as Sierra. Continue reading →

Nachtlied

Posted on November 28, 2011 at 6:00 am
Nachtlied

Nachtlied

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

Nachtlied Is German for ‘Night Song’ and this started the dark bay German silliness that followed in Nachtmaus and Nachtkatze. I know that these little guys are probably renamed as soon as they head out the door to their new owners, but coming up with names is one of my favorite parts of the process. Continue reading →

Red Baron

Posted on November 14, 2011 at 6:00 am
Red Baron

Red Baron

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

This little gal is something of an oddity in terms of painting techniques. Normally I paint a solid base color and then go back and add white markings, but in this case I left the primer coat alone painted ‘around’ the white markings instead. Continue reading →

Gold Standard

Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:00 am
Gold Standard

Gold Standard

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Paso Fino (G2)
Color: Gold with black tiger stripes
Gallery: Other Color
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

I love tiger stripes and horses probably a little more than I should, but they look so nifty!

This little gal and Shadowcat both have realistic tiger striping and were fantasy echoes of a pair of realistic Darwin tigers that are still sitting on my workbench six years later. The more I update and document everything, the more I want to add to the tiger-themed herds… Continue reading →

Sonata Sunrise

Posted on July 26, 2011 at 10:00 am
Sonata Sunrise

Sonata Sunrise

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Paso Fino (G2)
Color: Orange-Red Dun
Gallery: Solid Color
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

I distinctly remember painting this little gal because I didn’t have any orange horses yet. Orange was one of my least favorite colors, but as you can tell it’s grown on me a bit over the years. Continue reading →

Nuvem Roxa

Posted on July 22, 2011 at 10:00 am
Nuvem Roxa

Nuvem Roxa

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Paso Fino (G2)
Color: Purple Bay Frame Overo
Gallery: Overo
Medium: Acrylics, Liquitex Dioxazine Purple
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

This little gal’s named is ‘Purple cloud’ in Portuguese (per Babelfish) and was a custom order along with the Add-a-Foal Pouca Nuvem. As I remember the order was for specific molds in a purple overo pattern, with the details being artist’s choice. Continue reading →

D’Notte

Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:00 am
D'Notte

D'Notte

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Paso Fino (G2)
Color: Dark Blue and Silver
Medium: Silver Acrylic, Liquitex Phthalocyanine Blue
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

D’Notte is a rather mangled version of the Italian ‘Of Night’ and she was named for the both the deep blue color and the way the silver stencils mimicked the moon.

Midnight Wish and Zodiac’s Curse were also inspired by the night sky, although I think Zodiac pulls it off the best of the three. Continue reading →

Pouca Sombra

Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:00 am
Pouca Sombra

Pouca Sombra

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Paso Fino (G2)
Color: Dark Grey (Black Going Grey)
Gallery: Dilutes
Medium: Acrylics and Other Artist
Painted/Status: 200? and Sold 200?

‘Pouca Sombra’ means ‘Little Shade’ in Portuguese, which follows the general Babelfish-themed naming patterns for the Paso Fino mold. Someday I will learn to resist romance languages… but not quite yet. Continue reading →

Vento D’Verao

Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:00 am
Vento D'Verao

Vento D'Verao

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

This little gal’s name translates into ‘Wind of Summer’ from my rather mangled Portuguese. Nothing like ambushing an unsuspecting language and riffling through it’s pockets for names via Bablefish! Continue reading →

Bailar Oscuro

Posted on April 10, 2011 at 8:00 am
Bailar Oscuro

Bailar Oscuro

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

Yet another Bablefish horse, Bailar Oscuro means ‘Darkly Dancing’ in Spanish (more or less). A nice basic dark bay with an extensive tobiano pattern, this little gal was quite the shelf piece even stuck in amoung her fantasy kinfolk. Continue reading →

Sol Dorato

Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:00 am
Sol Dorato

Sol Dorato

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Paso Fino (G2)
Color: Yellow-gold Leopard Appaloosa
Gallery: Fantasy Appaloosa
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

This little gal was a pain to photograph. Even with the new camera you can’t really make out the fine white speckling and traceries that made her shine in person.

Because of that she took the longest to sell on eBay and I’m a little surprised she ended up selling at all. I figured I was going to have to take her to a show and sell her from a table so that folks could make an in-person assessment. Continue reading →

Fuego Lento

Posted on November 2, 2010 at 8:00 am
Fuego Lento

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 →

Profitina’s Mini Me

Posted on August 30, 2010 at 8:00 am
Profitina

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 →