Another new project

So about 12 months ago i purchased a whole conga of OF and Cm'd Succession and Le fires.
I had a lot of complications with the purchase and in the end the seller refused to send the horses and started to ignore my emails, so i started to seek some advise.
I came across a lady who had the same problem as me so i contacted her about it and she gave me some good tips. I contacted the seller again, mentioned some of the things I'd been told to mention and well after some debate and some legal talk she decided to send me my horses. (and because she'd messed me around for 12+ months i didn't have to pay postage which was like us $150!!)

My horses arrived in two boxes two days before Christmas which was a pleasant surprise, but what was a bigger surprise was that the seller had sent me extra horses that i hadn't actually purchased, so i ended up with a few free ponies and foals, one of which is this gal,

She's my first ever haired model and well I love her! although i don't love her paint job..

I was talking to a friend i have the UK and she mentioned how she's just finished painting her Vincenzo into a beautiful cremello. I had a lightbulb moment! I did some research and it turns out the cremello is permitted in Arabians. So i'm going to paint her something like this

Prepping and priming her is proving to be a royal pain in the ass because i don't know what medium was used to paint her so i don't know what to use to take it off and the fact that she's haired and i don't want to have to re-hair her.

Hope you all had a merry christmas, wish me luck!

Painting Ponies

I hate the fact that i don't get to post on here as much as i'd like, but between the fact that we're still unpacking and i'm a procrastinator i don't find much time to be creative, especially because i haven't found the right place to set up so i have been having to set everything up and then take it down once i'm finished at the end of the day which makes me put it off more..

But i have managed to almost finish a new project...  

She's a little blue roan highland pony. My first ever roan, she was painted in pastels and her details were painted in acrylics. 

 For my first ever roan, i don't think she's too bad. although her corn spots are a little out of scale.

I still have, the roaning to do swell as her hooves and some other touch-ups but i guess that will come with time but until then she has a cute spot on top of my xbox just staring at me waiting to finish her.

Mrs Moo.

Unfortunately between the house move i haven't found much time to make and break things which is why i have abandoned my blog for so long. *hugs*
Luckily, one of the first boxes i opened was full of all painting and tack making supplies!
So Yesterday was a nice sunny day and i decided i would do some prepping. Although not of the equine kind.

That is Mrs moo, i was never really good with naming pets, can you tell? Although i'm glad i didn't think of something like Daisy first because i think that's even worse.
I bought this gal directly from Carol Herden herself a quite a few months back, so when she came to me she was a yucky yellow rough cast, and well she was a pain to prep. Iv'e never sanded something so much in my entire life. But we got there eventually.

She's currently in the painting process, she's going to be black with a sort of skunk tail pattern down her back, but i have noticed when you're painting in pastels they have a different idea and they like to turn everything a sort of.. shade of black.

Funny story about the little black moustache on her nose, when i was painting the dust unto the underside of her legs i was leaning her face on my surface so that she was a little more stable, and well that happened.

I think it's absolutely adorable so it's going to stay.

Cross Country Jump

I recently had a live show come up in Canberra. So i decided to see what skills i had in prop making.
I started with some good old trusty Balsa Wood, i know it's not the sturdiest thing to use when it comes to making props but i managed to pick myself up a huge box of off cuts awhile back and figured that i may as well use what i had.
Now i did forget to take pictures of the first half of making it, even though i had all intentions of doing so i got too caught up in the process and remembered that i wanted to blog about and by then it was all constructed, painted and i was starting on the details. (Bummer)
I wanted to go for a sort of flower box jump, but kind of not really. I browsed the internet for some
This is what i came up with, i gave it a more of a swampy look with the dark brown wet looking paint and the fake grass that reminded me of tall reeds. I had to stick each piece of that grass in one by one and let me tell you i wont be doing anything like this ever again, it nearly flew across the room a couple of times after i wanted to pull all of my own hair out.

And this was my end result, after about 5-6 hours of sticking small pieces of fake grass and flowers onto the jump i finally finished.

Thankfully my hard work paid off in the end, pulling Grand Champion Overall English. 

I couldn't of been happier with it :) 

First Post!

Welcome to Sweet December Studios!

I'm hoping to keep this updated with all the new things i'm making.
Once i get the funds i'm going to give tack making a try, but for now i'm just making props and painting the occasional horse.

I hope to update here regularly, so keep your eye on this space. :)