Bluebird Studio

Life has been hectic the last month (Month! Where did the weeks go!?) Live shows, flu, school holidays, commissions and this brilliant little time waster ... Scarlett In two weeks time Equitana equitana.com.au/  . I am going to be fluffing on the Breyer stall over the 4 days, with my Cm work, and generally talking model horses. Yay! Coming with me will be these 5 CMs for display Bluebell CM FAM CM Clydie Stallion CM Classic Arab Stallion CM Weather Girl CM All need to be finished and painted, with the exception of Weather girl, she is coming in primer as she is crossing the pond for her clothes. Very very excited about her destination. Did I mention it was in less then 2 weeks? More soon ...

First up is my little stablemate CM on the breyer Belgian mold. He was CM'ed to a show off Welsh D gelding. The very exciting news with this boy is that he is now in the hands of the uber talented Jaime Baker, and when I say Uber, I mean UUUUUUBBBBBBEEEEEERRRRR! I practically beside myself to see the clothes that Jaime creates for this boy! He will be up for sale from Jaime on completion :) My DUN donation is nearly complete, she just needs a few more little tweaks and details and the rest of her tail. She took a tumble (I am ridiculously clumbsy!) and broke off an ear, so I have replaced them. She has been braided up, and her face has been refined and dried out giving her a bit of age, just what I expect to see in the leading rein classes at our finest shows. I am onto her third tail, the first two were just not the airy fine haired tails you see on show ponies. This one is the charm though, I think I have finally got it. :) Finally ...this is my donation to Las Vegas Live 2012, a...

Grrrr, or Wil'hell'mina as she is now known, has gone supreme CM at River City Live in South Australia. I am so very, very chuffed *happy sigh* Photo credit S.W.I.D Design, Australia Wil'hell'mina was to be sold directly after this show, but there is the possibility that she may be heading to the USA for some proxy showing before then. Things are still up in the air, but we will see how we go :)

She is done! She also has a name Wil"hell"mina, I thought it was quite apt ;) And with her original form.

Fleabites on Grrrr. Not sure how she is really going to turn out, I am still up in the air over wether I like them or not, and even wether to continue with them or not. I am using a Welsh A gelding for her colour. He has a lot of black fleabites, but they all blend in to be almost invisible, so lots of blending down to go on her! Liddle Humphrey Bear also has a coat of colour. I have used my youngest sons Shetland pony as muse for this one. Possibly not the most exciting of colours, but I like the way it lets the sculpture speak. Which in my case is not such a bad thing, as I think I am a much better sculptor then I am a painter! ;)

Almost there with this one :) She just needs her frogs, eyelashes and veining as well as a jolly good sand.

New ears, refined head, and some more work on her barrel. Leg and hoof work are next on the agenda.

Despite spending part of my weekend at work, I still managed to get a little done in the studio :) Humphrey. Feathering and leg detail will see this little guy finished. This one is starting to look like he is a horse, instead of a camel. Cranky FAM is taking shape. She has caught my attention again, so I may run with it and try and get her finished up this week, or at least to mane and tail stage :) After struggling with this boys 'spot/blob', I gave up and stripped him. In this photo he has his first ten or so layers of pastel base coat, and I have added his dapples, I will now begin darkening him up and blending down his pangare.

So all up her makeover included, her face re-sculpted. Including new nostrils, jowls, and lips, new eyebrows and profile carved and added to, ears carved out. Her neck set has been lowered and completely re-sculpted, her back extended, muscling added between her back legs, front legs and chest. Chestnuts and veining added, female genitalia sculpted including an udder. Hooves re-sculpted and carved soles and frogs. Resculpted mane and tail. Finally she was painted using quality artist acrylics by Matisse, and Windsor & Newton pastels. Despite all of her changes, I think that I have managed to keep the soft, sweet charm that make the Family Arabian moulds so likable.