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Paint-Your-Own Test Run @ Stone Factory!

Paint Your Own Test Stone Chip or Pebble Seminar

Paint Your Own Test Stone Chip or Pebble Seminar - October 2nd, Friday evening from 6 - 10 PM. Our staff will show you how to paint your own horse. Stone Chips Tests are $75 and Pebbles are $100.

http://stonehorses.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=details-ShowFees&product_id=394&category_id=8&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=92

Today is the last day to sign up.

I am freaking EXCITED to play with an airbrush under adult supervision!

I asked for the Cutting Horse Chip, second choice the QH, who I intend to paint as a portrait of an apricot dun QH mare I used to ride (leg bars, dorsal stripe, star/snip, 2 hind socks, light dappling on flanks & rear) -wish me luck-

G1 SM Morgan Stallion

Sm barn

This is just the garden in front, thx for the bottle stopper, Chris!

Paulo on a Donkey

I really like donkeys, so I like this Picasso a lot.

I got out some leftover Super Sculpey yesterday morning and made a wire armature, head and 2 hands, wrapped in TP and gauze and built up the costume as I went along. His eyes are little clear blue seed beads. Still working on the saddle & bridle, but how cute is he? Click pic to see album.

Kit-Bashing a Breyer Barn?

Actually, I don't know if I'd really call it '1st-degree kit-bashing', but I was a bit disenchanted when I opened this barn I found on clearance at Target, all just plastic and printed cardboard.

However, it is in the scale of many extras I had around, most thanks to Diane last summer... -thank you-! And also in the scale of a nice china model I am worried of toppling, so I took on the cheap barn and in the last month here's what's happened:

click the pic to go see the web album.

I didn't get to pics of the tackroom, but will update this post when I get them!

Also finishing out a Traditional run in shed, a rotating Stablemates window box, a new Stablemates display case and a smaller single stall Classics shed.

Breyer Stablemates Display Cases

Nearly completed. Desert canyon w/ waterfall & spring. Handmade landscape. Really love this one. Click pic to see more photos.

Horse: '06 G3 SM Andalusian Stallion, Rose Gray OF

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Completed! Click for more pix! Coffee-dyed matte finish wood frame, looks lovely. Inspired by high seaside hilltop trail ride in St. John USVI in '06. Background from tourist souvenir mag, handmade landscaping to match bouganvillea in photo. Real scale coral rocks and other landscaping is loose and moveable for a variety of scenes. Horse: Lippizzan Foal, '08 JC Penny Parade of Breeds, OF.

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Several more are in progress as well and will be posted as available.

latest work in progress

G3 SM Arabian customized to bay-going (gone?) gray.
Click his pic and see a few more.