Another "Quick" Update

During my "lunch break" I sit in front of the TV, cuddle with my dog on the sofa, eat lunch, and do some sculpting. Yes. I am one of those people who can't just be idle. Anyway. QD is making some progress! Now, you've seen this side a lot:

So I thought I'd take share more so you could get a better idea of him. Like actually seeing what his other side looks like (now that he has one)!

And this next one is just comical to me for some reason. You can really see that his left side is quite a bit behind work-wise to his right side. That inner left leg needs work, from the hoof all the way up to where it would connect to the chest. You can also see how one sided his face is right now too.

And here's the straight down view after the reworking of that booty! Much better don't you think? Getting there anyway.

And did I mention how much I love Super Sculpey? I am cranking out legs with far more detail than before!

That's all the new shots of him for now. We'll see how many more lunch breaks it takes to finish him. ;)

Bootylicious

Now that I'm farther along on him, I'm noticing Quick Draw has quite the caboose on him. We all like a big-butted stock horse, but this guy is a bit extreme! I like where the left side is blocked in at, but that right side...oh my.

So, to help me really see how much better it's going to look when I take away, I've Photoshop'd the first image to this:

His tail only has the right side sculpted so don't let that throw off your center line perspective. I also think it looks like his head is tilting ever so slightly to the left. Super easy fix. I find it's a really good thing to take lots of photos of your work in key points of the process. Looking at your horse via a photo clears your tired eyes and gives you a new perspective. I saw some other things that needed fixing besides just the width of the derrière.

"Quick" post on WIP and new medium

So this year I decided I'd try a new medium. I wanted something that could give me non-hardening until I wanted a solid piece, and I remembered Brigitte Eberl using it a few years back (don't know if she still does) so I thought I'd try it. At first I thought I was crazy (and so did my friends), but the more I started using it, the more I LOVED it. Want to know what my new medium of choice is? Wait for it...Super Sculpey! Yes, the pink stuff you find at your local JoAnn Crafts. And I'm completely in love. It's much softer than I'm used to working with, but it moves much differently as well, which makes the softness okay. Also, I can "set" things in place with a heat gun when I'm finished with an area so I don't have to worry about smudging or taking a chunk of an area out with my nails (which I do all too frequently). Meanwhile, I can move legs and necks and tails and whatnot forward, backwards, and sideways to my heart's content and not have to worry about the stuff hardening in an hour. AND...this is the best part...because I can bake this guy to harden him, I can sand and work THIS copy, which saves me a weeks' worth of time and hundreds of dollars in making the waste mold. We can move straight on to one production mold. WOOTS! I will warn all of you aspiring sculptors now though, I consider this a more advanced medium to work with.

Anyway, info about the piece now. Sorry, I'm a shameless promoter of things I find that I fall in love with (like HD Bananas Foster, yum) and I tend to get sidetracked.

Meet "Quick Draw"! This boy is a traditional scale stock galloping stock horse (same size as the Rose Reiner). I think I'm going to make him a gelding unless all you all feel he needs to remain "intact". He's that nice roping horse type, which is good and thick, but not near a halter-breed horse's beefcake-ness. There's no TB influence in this guy! A friend of mine came to me last year at a show and told me she had plenty of ideas for my next "Performance Horse Series" piece. She and another friend had both been wanting a galloping stock horse with the back legs on the ground for probably a decade or more. She proceeded to tell me all the things she could do with a horse like that. Now, this gal is a big name in performance and one of the most fun and creative people I know...she could probably a NAMHSA Perf. Versatility Award cookie on horse that was laying down. But the enthusiasm she showed was catching. Besides I can't say no to her. She has been a long-time supporter of my work - ever since I was a little girl first starting to paint and hair with the rest of the crowd.