Custom Model Horses in Every Hue!
Irish Ayes
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Green-bay Frame Overo
Gallery: Overo
Medium: Acrylics, Liquitex Phthalocyanine Green
Status: Painted 2005? and Sold May 2005
This little guy was a lot of fun to paint and he’s one of the few horses that ended in a bidding war on eBay. Well, he did end up under $30 I think, so more of a bidding skirmish, but still. Continue reading
Pumpkin King
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Black and Orange Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
I rarely do holiday themed horses, since by the time I finish them the holiday is over, so this little guy is a rare exception to the norm. I was tempted to give him Halloween themed cat tracks, but the basic orange and black looked too nice to fiddle with. Continue reading
Smokey's Shadow
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Dark Bay
Gallery: Bay
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
I’m pretty fond of the way this little guy came out. He’s a simple dark bay with just the slightest bit of a resculpt to make him stand out from the crowd (the flipped tail). He was named in homage of titular horse from Smoky the Cow Horse by Will James. Continue reading
Silver Dollar
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Silver Bay Tovero
Gallery: Other
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
I have no idea how I managed to sell this guy with such bad photos… What the heck was I thinking? Continue reading
Keep It Golden
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Buckskin
Gallery: Dilutes
Medium: Acrylics and Pastels
Painted/Status: Mid 200? and Sold 200?
This little guy was gone towards the end of my customizing run, as you can tell by the background and head shot. I’d started working heavily with the pastels at this point, both Golden and Round Tuit were attempts at a pastels over a acrylic basecoat. Continue reading
Umber Midnight
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Black
Gallery: Black
Medium: Liquitex Burnt Umber, Acrylics and Pastels
Status: Painted 2005 and Sold May 2005
I very rarely paint plain black horses, outside of custom orders, so this was my stab at getting the color in hand. I was trying my best to stay away from the dreaded ‘flat black’ color, since it’s not very realistic. Thus I read up as much as I could from other customizers before I started mixing the paint. Continue reading
Fragaria Glaze
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Red Blanket Appaloosa
Gallery: Fantasy Appaloosa
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
Why I didn’t just call him Strawberry Glaze, I have no idea. Fragaria is the genus name for strawberries, so I’m assuming I was feeling overly literate when I named him. Continue reading
Neverland Flyboy
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Blue Blanket Appaloosa
Gallery: Fantasy Appaloosa
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little guy got one of those names I really wish I had saved for my own show string– and he was one of the horses I wish I’d kept as well! The color combination came out just the way I’d hoped it would in my head and appaloosa pattern was nice and crisp. Continue reading
Dapper Dan
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Chestnut Few Spot Appaloosa
Gallery: Realistic Appaloosa
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little guy started out life as a portrait horse, but turned into a wonderful example of why I offer 100% refunds on works-in-progress and why I make sure my custom order customers get in-process pictures on a regular basis. Continue reading
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
Round Tuit
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Dun Frame Overo
Gallery: Overo
Medium: Pastels and Acrylics
Status: Painted in 200? and Sold 200?
Told you I was going to do a horse in pastels when I got a round tuit! *grin*
Although, to be fair, only the base coat is in pastels. So he’s a mostly-pastel horse with acrylic markings and detailing. I’ll have to have another go at a full pastel model a bit later on. (I have some ideas for blocking out the white areas that I’m looking forward to trying!) Continue reading
Easy Does It
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Chestnut
Gallery: Chestnut
Medium: Acrylics, Colored Pencils
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
This little guy was one of my first ever customs, back when I was using Primacolor pencils to add depth to the coloring instead of pastels. Sadly the photos are too washed out to pick up any of the detail, but he really was a wonderful little horse in person. Continue reading
Captain Erroneous
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Blue Roan Tovero
Gallery: Other Color
Medium: Epoxy and Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Captain E-roan-eous! …Behold the power of paint fumes. *grin* Continue reading
Lassie Come Lately
Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Quarter Horse (G2)
Color: Tricolor Collie
Gallery: Darwin
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?
Lassie is one of my older customs (possibly 199? instead of 200?) and the second in my series of dog coat patterns (the first was Dog Daze a Doberman pattern on the old Swaps mold). She was paired up with a foal with similar coloring called Payson’s Lad when she went to eBay. Continue reading
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
