Oreo part 2 - Finished

This little girl has been in my mind since I left South Africa in July 2015. While doing volunteer work at a farm I fell in love with a young, lanky female dog. She was a crossbred believed to have some Weimaraner, Greyhound and maybe some Great Dane blood in her. She had the very cute, and fitting name, Oreo.

Since I couldn't bring her home with me I started to make plans of having a miniature version of her in my collection, so that I would always remember her. And here she is, my miniature version of Oreo.

I think I did quite well for my first, finished, dog portrait. She is super cute and even though the mini version is a bit bulkier than her real counterpart I think it suits her very well as this is what I think she'll look like when she's older (she was like 8-10 months old when I got to know her). 

I just love how her eyes turned out (even though the pictures doesn't show them too well). 

I'm really happy with how she turned out and it was actually quite fun to paint something other than horses, even though I enjoy that a lot :)

Finished horses!

These models were too far along last year to make me count them towards my "paint at least 10 models" goal for 2017 but I have finished them none the less.

The first one is Black Glitter N. He has been in the works for far longer than I'd like to admit. During his first appearance as Black Glitter he had a star and some white on his legs but when I redid him I really liked the look of a sleek, all black horse so he ended up with no white at all.

I quite like how he turned out, with some subtle brown tones in his coat.

I tried a different technique for his eyes than I usually do. I combined coloured pencils with acrylics and even added in a bit of gold acrylics.

Now I can finally call him finished and be happy to say that he is standing in the shelf with my other Schleich models.

The second one I've finished is another black horse (I like to paint models in "colour batches" so that's why I finished several black models now). This is Highland Lass (Lubra) for my Silver Brumby project.

This girl looks more brown in pictures than she does in real life but I still think she came out good. The prep work on her is not well done at all but this model is supposed to represent a horse that has been living in the wild and she will remain in my collection and be used for photos only so it doesn't matter to me that she's not perfect.

I can't wait 'til I get more models for the Silver Brumby project finished so that I can start making up the scenes and take photos of them!

IMEHA Champions and photoshow results

I've been showing with the IMEHA for a while and when I logged on a few days ago I found that two of my horses had reached IMEHA Champion status! The first model was kind of unexpected. I barely show him (at least not live, and not frequently in photoshows either) but it was a nice surprise!

Dun To Perfection
580 points
1 Division Grand Champion in the Quarter Horse Breed Division of the OF Breyer CL or LB Breed Conformation Show.

The next model is one of my all-time favourites so it was nice to see her earn IMEHA Champion status :)

Athame
517 points
1 Overall Grand Champion in the Animal Artistry Resin Horses - No China - Mold Show
3 Overall Reserve Champions in the Animal Artistry Resin Horses - No China - Mold Show

In other news I also entered a few models in a New Years Eve photoshow and got the results a few days ago. Most of my models did okay but there was a few that did really good.

Maverick won his class and went on to be champion pony!

Fallen Hero did good too claiming the champion sporthorse reserve title behind the model that went on to be Best In Show.

A great end to the showing of 2016 and hopefully it'll be a great start for the 2017 showing career :)

Plans for 2017

2017 has just arrived and that means new plans and goals :)

When it comes to model horses my goals are pretty much the same as earlier years, maybe a few more and some more specific.

Brego, Mini Haggis rep. by me

Goals for 2017:
- Attend at least two liveshow.
Now that my life is a bit more in order with a job and apartment I hope to be able to spend more time on my hobbies and maybe go to a few more live shows than I've done the last years.

- Paint at least 10 of my bodybox models.
I keep adding models to the bodybox at a faster rate than I paint them so I think that setting a more specific goal might make me finish more models than having a less specific one. And I won't count the once that I have that are almost finished!

- Try my hands at some more extensive resculpting.
I have an idea of turning a Sm. G3 Cantering Warmblood Mare into a grumpy mare with her ears back, head tucked, teeth visible and swishy tail and I think she would be the perfect candidate for me to try out some more extensive resculpting.

- Get at least 1 of my unpainted resins painted.
I've aquired quite the collection of unpainted resins and I really want to get at least one of them painted this year.

- Try to get a hold of one of my holy grails.
I do have quite a few holy grails, mostly painted resins and plastic customs owned by other collectors. But hopefully I can get my hands on one of them.

- Take photos for my website.
I've taken a few pictures and also uploaded them to my website but there are still a lot of models left to take pictures of.

- Keep blogging
Last year I managed to write 85 blog posts and I'd like to up that number. So for 2017 I aim to write at least 100 blog posts. To be able to do that I need to write about two posts a week. I would also like to try and reach 35 000 views. So if you have any suggestions on post you'd like to see, please let me know :)

- Enter at least 10 photoshows
This year I'll try to get better at entering photoshows as I have some better photos now.

Register my models/pedigrees
As I'm into pedigree assignment I can register my models/pedigrees into our Swedish model horse breed registries and I'll try to register at least half of my models this year.

Sadeek, Breyer Tr. Le Fire OF