When good ideas go bad.

While searching through pics to try to find a color for my mini Haggis I ran across this photo of a very pregnant sitting drafter and decided that she would make a great companion for Pop (see last post.) Well off to the studio I go to start the de-construction on my newest victim, many hours later what I'm left with is the mangled forward two thirds of a PS chips drafter, the hind quarters a total loss and a splitting head ache. It sounded like such a good idea at the time!

What I've been doing for myself

These are the two newest girls I have completed for my own collection.The first is a dramitic remake the LG SM scale "Synergey" resin. I got her in a recent trade Someone had already started the changes to make her a mule, but the pics made her look a lot better than she really was in person. So I removed all the old resculpting and her bases and started clean. She now sports a new facial profile with pooky lip, lovely refined mule ears, nice flowly mane and tail and a removable base. I then painted her a super sooty dun. I'm envisioning her as a spanish/QH X mammoth jack, her name is "PYD From the Ashes" aka Phoenix. Number 2 is a drastic PS chips drafter who is now VERY pregnant and not sure what to make of this whole situtation. New mane and tail, new neck huge baby belly and mommy bits. I painted her a sunburned black sabino who looks like she's pretty much been left to relax mostly untouched in the fields, which from the looks of her won't be much longer :P I've named her "PYD What The ?" (you just know by her expresion this is her first foal :) ) aka Pop, since this is what it looks like she's about to do :lol: I'm really loving these littler guys!

The first snow...ICK!!!!

No prelude this year, we jumped right over the flurries stage and went straight to accumulating snow with a possible total of two to three inches tonight. What does this mean for me? My studio is FREEZING! I have a space heater, but every time I use it, it blows the circuit, making life very interesting. I can't wait for spring.

I'M SOOOOOOOO BAD!!!!!!!

Eek! my wallet is weeping! I just bought a unpainted Sheri Rhodes "Bear" drafter resin, he's broken, but will be a 10 minuet repair and was super cheap. But I really have to stop spending every little bit of money I get in :)
Must SELL more horses! MUST NOT BUY more horses! Lather, rinse, repeat.

GRRRRRR Website problems

I am so completely computer stupid that I struggle to even manage this blog. So what do I decide to do? Attempt a long over due update to my website. Well as I'm playing with Print Shop making business cards and magnets, I see that there are website templates. So I figure "why not?" and set up a basic webpage layout. Nothing fancy, but it does have my new logo, a clip art image that I dinked with to fit my needs. OK, it took time, but no real problems. They didn't crop up until I tried to see weather I could load it onto my website. Ummm... when I used the publish to the web function I got some message that I didn't understand(not really surprising :P) so I then went to my site providers web builder, no go there either, theres no option to load from a outside source. So today has been very long and unproductive and I still need to do those overdue updates and figure out how to get my logo to work on my site. I guess that's a job for another day.

The custom that ate my brain

You would think a nice dark seal bay tobiano would be a pretty straight forward, and fairly simple custom, right? Maybe for anyone else in the world, but of course not me! As with all tradgies it started off so well. Prepping and priming, no problems. Masking, no more difficult than usual. Painting, beautifully. Removing the mask.........yea, that didn't go so well, like it wouldn't come off. GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nothing I did would make it come off without killing the finish, so I just gave up and stripped it so I could start from scratch. Then to add insult to injury it started raining, and I don't mean just a little rain, I mean like days upon days of steady to torrential downpours equaling enough rain to make up for the summer deficit and make a huge dent into our fall totals. LOTS OF WATER!!! Which meant I got no work done because it was taking three days for each coat of primer to dry, and my pastels, for lack of a better word, kept curdling and just altogether being clumpy and not worth the aggravation. Anyway, finally it dried out enough for me to finish the pastel work, and this time the mask came off(different masking method) fine, so on I when to cleaning up and clearing up the white markings. And your never guess what happened next.......... MORE RAIN!!!!!!! OMG! should we start building a ark? Now I'm having problems with the washes of white drying, it's like every time I thought I was finally getting in the groove to get this model finished something else would pop up.

Long story short, he's finally finished, and I think he turned out really well for all the trials he put me through, and hopefully the next job will go MUCH smoother.

EEK!!!!

I can't beleive it! I got chosen as a guest artist for Michelle Platt's new TB resin "Emboldened"
http://www.equinartcreations.com/Emboldened.html I can't wait till I get him in my grubby little hands :) Now to think of a fitting color for him that will work as either a TB or QH.