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NOTICE: The Roundabout Cob RESIN EDITION is closing on July 1st.
There were only 33 cast and there are just 5 left to sell. This is now a nice exclusive edition with a very small number made, so don’t wait any longer if you want one. I am not ordering any more resins to be made!
Please order one of the last 5 via the ETSY shop.
I can offer short time payments. If you want to go that route don’t use the Etsy shop, email me directly.
I am about to start showing my painted Roundies in performance this summer, and my multi-NAN-qualified painted Roundie is showing in Breed Halter at NAN 2012. I hope you will enjoy doing the same!
I’m gathering my sculptures for the PACE equine art show next month, and realized I did not own a glazed copy of my “Meribel” draft filly. I wanted to show a matte-glazed piece and this was the perfect choice for that. And a great opportunity to challenge myself to glaze one entirely by paintbrush, no airbrush. “Meribel” has some sculpted texture in the body coat, and paint-brushing enhanced that by allowing me to be not so perfectly, pristinely smooth (as the airbrush nearly forces you to be). I used matte overglazes and applied them right onto the bisque china. It only took 4 passes through the kiln, too. I am thrilled with the outcome; I applied a lot of what I learned while painting a few “Roundabout” resins with oil paints this winter.
It’s been too long since I updated this site, so here goes some news.
Roundabout British Show Cob sculpture, resin cast painted with oils, recently finished.
Spring has arrived even in the Colorado high country. The aspens are greening up and we’ve got plants coming up in the yard. We moved here last fall so I have no idea what kind of perennials we’ve got; it will be fun to see.
I injured my right shoulder in March, so in addition to still having the sciatica pain in my legs, now I’m struggling to do work because my arm hurts like h*ll if I move it certain ways. I’m resisting going back for another round at the orthopedic medicine world but I think I’m going to have to get it looked at.
I took a couple weeks off at the end of April to try and heal, which coincided with a trip to the beach last week. But I have a lot that must get done in May, so work is starting again this week, pain or not!
I finished up and delivered the custom glazing commission on the Royal Worcester Saddlebred porcelain. Here is the color the buyer chose, all finished:
A neighbor of mine is a woodworker/cabinetmaker, and he made the wood base. Happily this piece made it safely through the mails to its new home in New Jersey.
I’m also well into the glazing work on the Horsing Around/Eberl “Azham” Arabian in bone china that I offered as a commission in March. Here’s a close-up of the dappling work:
It is now just a couple weeks from completion.
In the china department I also will be glazing a “Heart of Darkness” Oldenburg sculpture, to a grey. And a Breyer porcelain “Gisele” warmblood bisque is going to be an appaloosa. Those are both commissions. I’ve also got a dappled bay “Caprice” warmblood in the works. It is a claybody custom earthenware I cast myself, and is destined for the Laughing Bear benefit live show as a donation. It is almost finished. I want to get my ceramics molds out this month and do some more casting. The “Roundabout” china molds have been made and I am just waiting for sample earthenware casts and then I hope they will arrive here soon so that I can begin making customized earthenware chinas from them. (In addition to the non-customized chinas of course!) I really want to see one with a mane!
This summer I’ve been invited to exhibit 6 pieces of my ceramics sculpture work in an equine art show in Parker, Colorado. The show is in conjunction with the summer horse show events at the Colorado Horse Park. The PACE Arts Center is a brand-new arts facility in Parker, a hugely “horsey” town south of Denver. My work will be on exhibit at this show, with a few other Colorado equine artists working in different media, June 8-August 5th. I am choosing the pieces this month and glazing a few new just for the exhibit. I will update with more info as I get it. Unfortunately I fear I will miss the opening reception as I will be out of town at a wedding that weekend.
I do have a new sculpture in the works. I don’t want to say much about it for now because if all goes as planned I won’t be releasing it myself and it needs to be completed and ready for production before any real announcements are made. I will say that it is small, only about 4″ tall. A very nice size for finishing, whether in ceramic or resin, I think! I only need a couple more work days on it before going to the molding process, but sculpting is particularly bad on my shoulder since I have to raise my arms to eye-level to work the clay, and that’s what hurts!
Paul and I are enjoying seeing the seasons change in our new house so much. Winter hasn’t quite given up its grip yet as we are getting snow showers today, but by June summer will be here! Summer is particularly precious here because it is so short. Enjoy your spring and summer! And I look forward to seeing many of my friends at BreyerFest and NAN in July.
I’m donating a custom glaze commission on this Heart of Darkness warmblood sculpture, cast in earthenware and claybody customized. It is a benefit for the High Plains Live model horse show on April 21 in Colorado. This piece is being auctioned on the MyAuctionBarn site.
Here is the link to the auction.
Thanks for your interest!
This past year I have been experimenting with oil painting. I finished my first painting in 2010, and I have started two others. I really like the quiet application of paint with brushes. Most of my painting life—all involved with finishing my horse sculptures in either resin or ceramic—has been using the airbrush. It is fast and beautiful, I have always thought, but noisy and mechanical tool-intensive. I’ve wanted to branch out a bit from horses in art and working on “flat” landscape paintings with oils was a good way to do that plus learn something new. Paul and I have traveled a lot in the past 10 years and got on a huge art-museum jag where we saw a lot of the most significant old masters paintings on the planet. So naturally I was itching to try oils myself after all that quality art exposure!
Enjoyment of painting naturally led me to thinking about finishing my sculptures in oils. Especially since I have a sculpture in resin edition at the moment, and some unpainted white ones staring at me in the studio every day. I just finished my first Roundabout resin in oils, and here he is. Since this horse is a British Cob, I named this one “Marlow”, after a delightful town in England near where we lived during our year there…
I am so pleased with my first attempt with oils, that I’ve started another one which will be dappled palomino:
The palomino will be for sale… if I am satisfied with the results. Next, I will be interested to figure out how to paint a dappled grey in oils. I’ve spent 30 years perfecting dappled greys with the airbrush for both acrylic paint and ceramic glaze (because it is my favorite horse color) so that will be a challenge!
By the way, you can buy an unpainted Roundabout in resin at my Etsy Store. They are in stock and ready to ship.
What else am I up to? I’ve started another sculpture (about 4″ tall) that I’m not near ready to talk more about yet. Plus I will be getting back into the china glazing too I hope… Roundabout in ceramic IS coming this spring! I am thinking about glazing a small edition in an OF color, probably 10 pieces all the same color. But that won’t come until much later in the year, after I get the molds and get the hang of casting and cleaning them.
All work has been slow recently because I’ve been struggling with sciatica in both legs since September which makes it painful to sit for very long. After flailing around with chiropractic and physical therapy, I’ve been escalated to a spine specialist which I see tomorrow. I sure hope they will be able to help me because not being able to sit really inhibits my work time!!
Lastly, here is the first china horse I completed in 2012. An earthenware Boreas I cast myself. Isn’t he amazing looking in chestnut sabino color? A great color idea from the person who now owns it!
