Horse show season is over (almost)

so I have more time in the studio now, that and Im going to judge a show in Nov and can show a few pieces in CM/AR since Im judging OF. So I also have motivation!

Brownie! now RBS Red Velvet, after the ref pix below:

and finally some color on the cm weather girl!

Minor distractions

Since I was stuck at home working the better part of the holiday weekend I got a little time in the studio.  Weather girl is getting there:

Then I got to prepping on my Flitwick finally but Im not painting him! Laura Behning happily agreed to paint him for the painting certificate I won! He will be done and on his way soon.

and while those were drying I decided to get out the oils and play with a medallion for a while

On a roll...

 Tail just needs the top braid done then its time for sanding and priming and see whats left. Heres her ref photo (one of them anyway)

In the mean time I started on this guy too:

 

one of his ref pix, except Im going to leave his neck the way it is and leave him as a wb, maybe I'll do a Lusitano next time.

Arabs and more Arabs :)

Weather girl is coming along quite nicely now, still cleanup to do on the leg joints and some fiddling here and there but Im quite happy with her progression. I have no idea what color I want to paint her yet! Soon I will be to my favorite part... mane and tail!!! and it will be hunter braided.

And YAY for selling my dressage saddle and finding one that is perfect for a bargain price on top of it! Then I find out I won an helmet from http://www.riders4helmets.com/, an IRH one, and im liking the one with all the air vents! So I dont have much left to buy now for our first dressage show, since its show clothes not required.

Her saddle pad on the other hand is HUGE, I washed and dried it hoping to shrink it a bit, its our purple everyday one. I found a white one today thats smaller that we will use for showing. The barn redid the arena footing friday and I cant wait to see it, I hope they put in something nice. Just 2 weeks til our next halter and pleasure show!

Weather girl #1 of ?

Finally got my hands on a weather girl body and rather than just repaint it I had to make her more performance friendly. When I will get to show her in performance? well thats another story. And of course once I started it turned out that I needed to to more and more and more. This is just a start really, sad to say, hopefully it wont take me forever and a day to finish!