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Frost on the Vine

Posted on April 24, 2012 at 6:00 am

Frost on the Vine

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Shire (G2)
Color: Rose Sabino
Gallery: Sabino
Medium: Liquitex Acrylics (Gesso, Venetian Rose, Yellow Oxide, Burnt Sienna, Ivory Black, Light Portrait Pink)
Status: Painted April 2012 and For Sale

You might call this little guy pink, but he prefers ‘lightish red. ‘ Halo machinima jokes aside, Frost is a shaded rose, but without the flaxen mane and tail of his counterparts ROL Lida Rose and Kentucky Rose. Continue reading →

Finnegan’s Wake

Posted on November 7, 2011 at 6:00 am

Finnegans Wake

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Shire (G2)
Color: Green Bay Sabino
Gallery: Sabino
Medium: Acrylics, Liquitex Phthalocyanine Green
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

Finnegan is yet another green horse with an Irish-based name, which is pretty much par for the course at this point. He’s an interesting fella because there isn’t any black in this guy (other than his eyes), the dark points are actually phthalocyanine green. Continue reading →

Midnight Thunder

Posted on August 25, 2011 at 6:00 am

Midnight Thunder

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

Thunder has had his face resculpted to a more roman nose and is painted in a shaded black sabino. The shadings are hard to see here, but there’s just a hint of brown and blue in the coat. Continue reading →

Counting Time

Posted on August 8, 2011 at 10:00 am

Counting Time

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Shire (G2)
Color: Black and Blue Sabino
Gallery: Fantasy Sabino
Medium: Acrylics, Glossy
Status: Painted 2005 and Sold July 2005

Counting Time was a horse painted towards the end of one of my husband’s deployments, hence the unusual name. Normally I’m a bit more punny (or Babelfish-y) when it comes to assigning monikers… Continue reading →

Dark Dreams

Posted on July 17, 2011 at 10:00 am

Dark Dreams

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

This guy was the very first of my fantasy shires and my first attempt at a colored pattern on a black background. I pulled it off a little better with my later attempts (like Rainy Day Blues and Fragaria Glaze). Continue reading →

Crimson Knight

Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:00 am

Crimson Knight

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Shire (G2)
Color: Dappled Red-bay Sabino
Gallery: Fantasy Sabino
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted in 2003 and Sold February 2004

This little guy was one of my earlier customs, as you can tell by the wonderfully terrible photos and the lack of shading in his coat and hooves. Knight was a basic stencil brush sabino, with an extra bit of darker dappling via the same method. Continue reading →

Éire’s Pride

Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:00 am

Éire's Pride

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Shire (G2)
Color: Blue-green Bay Sabino
Gallery: Fantasy Sabino
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

I do accept custom order to revisit a color or pattern, but I try to never paint a perfect match. (One of the reasons I’m trying to make sure the galleries are fully uploaded before I start selling again!)

In this case, this little guy is a sequel to Whiskey in the Jar and is based on the same blue-green bay sabino pattern. Continue reading →

A Different Drum

Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:00 am

A Different Drum

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Shire (G2)
Color: Blue-bay Tobiano
Gallery: Tobiano
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

Inspiried by the Breyer traditional drum horse, this little guy was a fantasy take on the snappy patterns of the Gypsy Vanner horses. Continue reading →

Stonehenge Lilac

Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:00 am

Stonehenge Lilac

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Shire (G2)
Color: Purple-bay Blanket Appaloosa
Gallery: Fantasy Appaloosa
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

This is one of the few times this color of purple has photographed well. I think that the older camera might actually have the advantage over the new one when it comes to the phthalocyanine colors. Continue reading →

Whiskey in the Jar

Posted on January 27, 2011 at 8:00 am

Whiskey in the Jar

Make: Breyer
Scale: Stablemate
Mold: Shire (G2)
Color: Blue-green Sabino
Gallery: Fantasy Sabino
Medium: Acrylics
Status: Painted 200? and Sold 200?

I’ve only done a few of the blue-green shaded horses, but I love the way the colors meld together. Someday I’ll have to try a solid colored one, without as much chrome to distract from the shading. Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

D’ór Éireannach

Posted on December 24, 2010 at 6:00 am

D'ór Éireannach

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

This little guy’s name means Golden Irishman in Gaelic, at least if the internet is to be believed. There is something addicting about the way copper and gold shade together and once I painted AuCu, I was hooked! Continue reading →