I've finally rediscovered my creative drive after almost a year of drought, now I've been on a roll for a little over a week and gotten these two guys finished.
The first is a Albronzo that's been in progress/transition for three years! I call him " Creative Anarchy" because every time I though I had his personality nailed down he did a about face and went in a totally different direction :lol: He started as a palomino, then became a buckskin, the closest he got to finished was as a very dark liver chestnut with minimal marking, he sat like that for over a year and I just couldn't get motivated to finish detailing him out :( Then last week I realized I have just a little over a month until CRAB and upon review of my collection I found that I had sold about half of what I took last year and found that the humidity of this summer had caused my Emboldened to slip in his base leaving him leaning against the back of the cabinet and now he has a nice size spot on his barrel :( Anyway all this motivated my to take stock of my body/WIP closet and this guy jumped out at me saying he was ready to be finished so I went at him and turned his liver coat to a sunburned black and added some nice understated tobiano markings and in a effort to expand my horizons I tried my hand a a bi-colored eye which came out surprisingly well.
While I was still on CA's marking I grabbed another long running unfinished project from the closet. I got Mini Z dirt cheep on eBay a few years ago, like $25 cheep. Why you might ask? She was third quality, a bubble/divot on her face and no legs from the knees/hocks down :shock: She was in BAD shape, I sculpted new lower legs with field condition feathering and filled out her profile to be more stockish and she's sat like that for longer than I want to think about :lol: While scrolling through my photo morgue in search of pattern references for CA I flashed past some pics of ImAPardoxTu's(I hope you don't mind that I used you gal for insperation and hope that I did her justice :D ) Lacey that she had posted back when she was in foal and knew I had to try is for Z even though it's a very intimidating color/pattern for me. She turned into one very intense week long marathon painting session that commenced just a few hours ago :wink: Needless to say my hands are very tired and I still have at least three more horses to try to get done before Oct 29, hopefully my muse will stay entertained for awhile longer :lol:
So here are the fruits of my labor, what do you think?