Look at that blanket, no one does butts like D'Arry!
Sure to be a winner in performance too!
So of course, this is Dee Dee!!!!!!
Here is daddy, I can't wait to see what my palomino mare give me! With the wettness we have had the last three years in the spring and most of the summer, I decided to do fall foals, and its really perfect around here.
I will try and get some new pictures of her this week, she has already filled out so much, they grow so fast. I am selling many of the real horses though, including Lumi. I just don't ride as much anymore and have enjoy getting to travel with the models, so in a couple of months I will be down to just three. 
Next the esprit custom got a workmanship reserve champ, he is still available for sale. The halter classes were double judged for workmanship and halter.
Jonker, the Dutch Harness horse, was double champ for breed and workmanship in his division, he is also sold.
Freedom Generator, my new favorite personal horse took double champ honors as well!
The hardest thing on this guy was getting the stacks right in front and then the hip lines to follow. The stacks are the accepted 50% of natural hoof length, and will eventually have their straps on as well. He will also have trailer shoes behind.
Then for a breed you don't see often, a Dutch Harness horse. This is a huck body with a lonesome glory head. He is complete with the shaved tail top, and plaited mane. The trick on him was to get the plaits to stand away from the neck like they do on a real Dutch Harness horse groomed for show.
I actually took the right hind off completely to move it forward to get that look of him reaching way under himself. This overreach with the hind is a breed standard that they must show.
I hope to have finished photos on Thursday before I leave for the show Friday morning. For all those have asked I have decided on these prices for blog readers
So only a week till the show, and I am down to markings and details. Here is the gizelle in her silver dapple pinto. I plan to show her as a morgan/paint cross.
The Esprit is my favorite. This fawn buckskin paint is so strange looking in the cups, and it takes about 30 layers of different colors to get this final result, but I am so glad I did this instead of the apricot dun going grey. I love that color too, but I want to always try new things and strive to improve on technique.
Here you can kinda see how I curled the lip a bit, can't wait to get his eyeballs and mouth detailed for the final effect! The hardest thing with this remake was keeping the flowing mane intact yet moving the neck and head. The shoulder was the easy part, I just cut the whole top of the right shoulder out and replaced it. I know it seems like a lot of work and Esprits out there have sold for a ton without having it corrected, but I just couldn't stand it! I also filled in the deep muscle grooves in places to give them not such a harsh look.
On the other hand, the same base colors from above where altered to make this silver dapple, but she looks rather strange with those bare legs, pinto markings are coming!
The Esprit is going to be a totally new color I am going to try, but the base coat is the same. I always try to paint horses in the same tone at once. Saves time and paint, while one dries the you can work on the other. I do a lot of hand painting anymore for dapples and highlights, but for base color I use and Iwata with a jar attachment, soooooo much faster!
And remakes are always being tinkered with, I changed the crest on this guy so it wasn't lumpy, and refined and shortened his pads. He is still wet here, but I like his neck better. I may have to file the pads more since they still need their rubber grips sole at the end. He is more turned towards the side than his wifey
More pics tomorrow night!
This is what happens when you don't have a real studio, you need to hang the work out to dry....
And I rarely do all halter horses, but how bout this snarky Esprit???? Not only did I lift and turn the head, but I totally redid that scary shoulder and cleaned up the raised front leg. Apricot dun going grey anyone?
