I like this idea for the parked out TWH:

I'm considering doing this for maybe the walker that's parked out.  It's a dark dappled palomino sabino walker.  I like him but I don't know.

I have an exciting quarter horse that I'm doing this cololr I think. 

The flashiest Walker yet:

He's coming along ok.  I used a refernce of a real life walker.  I'll post the reference later. We're I think about to get a thunderstorm but I wanted to post the progress of him up.  His paint is still wet on the mane and tail. 

I used Kodachrome for a basic reference.  I have a picture of the left side but the right side I used  this image for a reference. I need to pink out half his eye a bit more, but that's no big deal. I can do that next. I don't know if I'll do him the same on the left side as the real horse.  He's so light on the left side.  The real horse is.  This may just be more of a loose reference for the sabino roan coloration and not really a portrait model.  Mostly because Kodochrome was a padded stacked up performance walker and I don't approve of the chains and pads.  I originally cm'd this model to be like the studs on Midnight Suns's liniage that were naturally high steppers and didn't wear pads.  They were just well trained and had a fancy natural stepping gait and didn't need to resort to that mess they strap on their feet now. The model isn't as spraddle legged as this real horse's gait either.  Mine is not stretching out that much in the hind end.  

Horses getting more paint:

The TWH stallion is now started off with his base coloring. I may change this but I don't know.  I'm thinking of doing him as a sabino roan.  Lots of color and flash but I may change it.  I've decided to repaint an old TWH performace model I still have.  I'm going with the flashy sabino on that one I'm sure. So I may change the parked out on to something else.  maybe a bay tobiano or something else. I don't know yet.

This next one is a little Friesian stablemate I changed. I gave him a new mane and new tail. His head is bowed down with his neck arched.  I'm liking this little man a lot. I gave him new stallion parts to.  There was some dust specks on him when I took the pictures though. 

1. The next one is the Thoroughbred mare I did.  I think she's going to be bay so I've got her base colored first in golden tan.

 Now, I've got the Nightmare Series I'm working on.  "Child's Play"

Ready for paint::

The TWH is ready for paint.  Looks like he's fresh from the pages of a stud book.  Now, to decide what color to do him in. It's got to be something that fits his stature.  Something that matches his presence. 

The Nightmare is primed and ready to go as well.  He's going to be haired, which explains the weird tail and no mane. I'm using real hair from "Merlin", my Cashgora goat.

Kentucky Derby!

Well this was exciting.  Although I thought Uncle Sigh had a cute name (like Duck Dynasty) lol  I thought Danza was most impressive  (related to Zenyatta) I thought California Chrome was awesome and could see why he was a favorite.  And though I think we still haven't heard the last from Danza in the next two races, I hope he does well.  I love that he's a cheap virtually unknown horse with nothing special in his pedigree who was born and bred by two guys that turned down a rich horse owner's 6 million to side with insanity.  lol  He's got a cute face too.

Doing some more horses:

Actually there's nothing new here.  I'm working on another portrait for a cop but aside from that I'm also doing the horses I had started a while ago. Back at the TWH which is almost ready for paint, and a new Thoroughbred mare. Plus the latest Nightmare Series horse is still coming along.



We made CNN!:

And nobody ever thought anything exciting ever happened in my hometown.  Ha.  Fooled ya.  We made headline national news today,  too bad a train had to blowup to do it though....  A tanker train carrying crude oil derailed today causing 50,000 gallons of crude oil to catch on fire and leak into the James River.  The train cars were blocking the entrance to where my mom uised to work, Griffon Pipe factory.  A friend of the family who works with a nearby railroad went down there and said it was caused from the rain erroding the earth away from under the tracks and it just collapsed as the train went over it.  We've had several days of constant drenching rain, and a lot of snow this past winter.  More than usual at least.  14 or so cars derailed and several blew up. It was a massive mess. I can't believe I slept through it.



Portrait for the Cop Week Charity Auction completed:

Well it's done.  I'll be mailing it off the first of the month. I made a couple changes along the way.  One change I made was to the Fireman's helmet.  I thought about putting my own city name on the helmet to be as a symbol of where the artist is from, but I don't think our fire helmet's are black so it wouldn't look right.  I couldn't figure out what to put on the helmet, so I thought of using the name of a real fireman who passed on the job.  I googled firemen killed recently and up came a story from Boston.  Two firefighters were killed in a fire in Boston about a month ago.  One of them was Lt. Edward Walsh, so I used his name.  So the painting which is supposed to be a memorial to fallen rescue workers, Cops and Firemen, does include the name of a real fireman who's been killed.  I used the number 64 because that is something that is more personal to me.  It's also two numbers in my phone number.