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These and a whole lot more freshly posted this week! =)

Pintabian - At last, some finished work!

Peter Stone brand Chips Arabian (stablemate size) painted into a Pintabian with a sharp looking tobiano pattern. The face has a nice white blaze and soft brown eyes.

This is the first time I’ve painted a P. Stone model, and while I’m not extra crazy about most of their Chips line, this little Arabian was lots of fun to do.

This little guy is actually a donation piece for Charyl Farrens, a friend of mine who's horse model show goes to help raise money for the horse rescue she’s involved with. Which in case any one is wondering, that’s why he doesn’t have a name. Watch my journal, the show is towards the end of the month and I will certainly be posting details.

2nd Place!

I'm really excited! My custom painted horse medallion just won 2nd place in the novice division in the RESS summer contest! WOOT! You can see all the lovely winners here. =)

I Survived Breyerfest

Here’s my table in the Artisan’s Gallery! I shared a table, so I rotated my stock out over the duration of the weekend.


Well I managed to survive my first trip to Breyerfest! I drove up with Cheryl Farrens and we decided to just do the whole fourteen hours in one swoop. I love road trips, so as long as we were talking or had some music on I was just fine staying awake. =) Amazingly both our trip up and back were fantastic in both weather and traffic. I was worried with all the recent rain and flooding in the area that we’d really get drenched in a few spots, so it was nice to have clouds or full sun instead.


Weather aside, the entire experience of Breyerfest was spectacular! Mind you I was in the Artisan’s Gallery for most of the time at the host hotel, but we did make it out to the horse park one day, picked up our show model (it’s gorgeous!!), toured the tempting vendors and watched some of the live horses perform. DZ Weedo is spectacular to see in person and I really loved the Haflingers. =)


If you’ve been to Breyerfest but haven’t been to the Artisan’s Gallery I highly recommend that you go. Some of the best artists in the model hobby are there with amazing work!! It was wonderful talking with several of them and seeing that their very down to earth people; happy to talk about their work, techniques and really get down and talk ‘shop’. There was so much fabulous eye candy; I really can’t express the amazingly lifelike details many of the pieces had. Truly it makes me hungry to learn more about painting so I can continue to grow into more realistic work.

Getting Started

Well I’m finally joining the art blog bandwagon, so all studio updates will be posted here, along with progress of longer projects. I look forward to getting to know my fellow artists. =)