Saturday, March 21, 2009

Take two

My intention with Stormwatch yesterday was to make a horse available to my loyal eBay buyers, whom I'd been neglecting. Now, please don't think I'm complaining, but since he sold within hours of my announcing his existence and well before the auction was scheduled to start, the whole eBay offering thing didn't happen. So, I've decided to offer up one of my customs that I'd been keeping instead. No pre-sales this time. This little boy is already on eBay even as I write this. Here he is, the Starlite Originals mule foal repainted to a red dun tobiano:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230332624406

Friday, March 20, 2009

Stormwatch

Good morning!

Those of you who like to follow my work on eBay may have noticed that new offerings have been few and far between of late. Most of the reason for that is because I've been slogging my way through the last of my custom orders (I know, they are almost all late at this point. You ladies who have been waiting have been so patient with me and I can't tell you how much I appreciate that. It won't be too much longer now, I promise.) and trying to keep track of the tons of orders for the new mule medallion, but also, I've been working on this in my spare moments:





Just in case he needs an introduction, this boy is Sarah Minkiewicz-Breunig's mustang sculpture, Stormwatch, and he's just about as popular as a resin can be. I really wanted to do something special for such an amazing sculpture, so he's the first Appaloosa that I've painted in a coon's age. He represents several new techniques. I've taken the roaning with Prismacolors concept that has served me so well lately and applied it to the mane, tail, and hooves. I've also had a heck of a time in the past with the mottled skin characteristic of Appaloosas looking artificial and dominating the entire face. The solution to the problem on Stormy here was lots of layer work utilizing watercolor pencils and pastels. There were a few tense moments in there (Oh my gosh, have I just ruined a $450 resin?!?!?!) but I love the end result.



Update - 4:21 pm : Stormwatch is now sold!