My work got selected for the Art of the Horse (by Stone company)!

I've entered my drawing Eunoia at the AOTH earlier this year, and yesterday the finalist were nammed. I'm one of them, and really gratefull for that.

The work entered represent the hope I got in my mare's recovery in our darkest hours.
(as a reply to the thema: harmony; the partnership between horse and a human, the relationship between artist and subject

 
-First picture is my mare before she headed to the clinic, at this point it's been a month that my vets were fighting for her. We found a piece of wood that got into her hoof and created an abcess, then an infection was eating down the navicular bone.

-Second picture (the one were she's laying), it's us in the first clinic that wanted to put her down and offered no more help.

-Third picture, is at the second clinic, that found that despite all the damages in her hoof, she could do with orthopedic shoes. She wasn't limping anymore.

-Last picture is her, living a happy retirement in the fields now... she wore hoof protection all the time to avoid her to loss an orthopedic shoes. She's living almost like nothing happened and does not show pain in a day to day basis. It's been 5 years now.

 

This drawing means a lot to me, as it express all of this and I'm glad it touched more hearts once again!

 

You can see all the finalists here!

Banana Split

Banana Split

Artist Resin Custom (paintjob by Nicole Söhn) on "Carlito". Painted in 2007 and sculpted by Brigitte Eberl. 

Colour: Palomino, Spotted Blanket Pattern // Breed: Appaloosa

Gender: Gelding.

Behind the scenes of a challenge...

You might have seen that my friend Clème (@agrasstory) and me have spent a few days together and as soon as I launched the idea of the one picture a day challenge, we hoped on our first idea...

Sunday, on a military shooting range, we took a trio of western riders.

As Clème just had bough us a lot of two resins (one for her, one for me), we got new "horses" to introduce, so we ended picturing them as well.

It was the day I arrived, so we didn't do much, but it was off a great start!

Monday, we went riding. Clème have a black mule, her name is Brune and you probably have seen her a few time on this blog.

But that was not about me riding, the real goal was to do pictures, so we went out of the barn looking for ideas.

 

Showing mule skills...

And searching in the woods for something to jump!

Of course, I had to try this as well.

Then it was time to plot again for a modelhorse picture, we decided that for our mental sanity we needed to find easier things for some days and created a still-life scenery of horses in a pasture in the evening.

Tuesday after a movie at the theater we went at a place called devil rock, with native figure and props wildhorses... I loved this place and we did quite an unusual setting.

Behind the scene of the mess it make to do modelhorse pictures...

Wednesday, after a great carriage ride we did pictures at the barn...

 
Do you want to hear the sound of this?

While one was playing, the other was grazing the mule!

Thursday, we had planned a picture with a castle. We went at Fontainebleau, started doing pictures then... we were told we weren't allowed to do pictures that needed an "installation" on the castle garden/ground. It's the first time ever it happend to me, I've done picture in several well known place and it never had been a problem. I've read the castle picture reglementation and didn't found it wasn't allowed, nowhere nor on the entrance, nor on their website. We were pretty mad, because that's a total nonsense, but decided to head back to the castle were Clème is living.

There we got a little helper!

Was it really help?

 

We ended at the barn and I did a few "liberty" pictures of Brune. Because when I'm not picturing miniatures modelhorses, I'm playing with real equines.

 
Saddly my camera is truly showing age signs, I need to upgrade it...

Friday was the last day, we wanted something unusual and staged each side of the fence.

Then, it was already time to say goodbye...

At the end of this week, we were a bit exhausted by so many pictures, but at least really glad to have done it! And I've got a lot of extra pictures to show🥰

One picture a day challenge!

Last week, I went to my friend @agrasstory's place. As always, modelhorse pictures were planned, but I got a (crazy) idea to do one a day... here's the result:

Day 1 (sunday):

Girl trail - What did they see? Seems like Anne and her horse have spotted something...

Day 2 (monday):

Life in the fields - When horses enjoy sunshine in the pastures.

 

Day 3 (tuesday):

 

It takes a good horse to ride though storms... Coahoma kind of created one by passing over wildies.
Yes, I consider thoses OF (horse belonging to @agrassstory ) as props 😂 

 

 

Day 4 (wednesday):

Foaling season is around the corner... can you feel that spring vibe in the air?

 

 Day 5 (thursday):

With so many draft horse to show, the haras of passy is busy thoses days.
A well mannered stallion can stay focused when a mare passe by...

 

Day 6 (friday):

Last picture of the week...

Peanut Butter is interrested to see what the neighbor horses next to him are doing.

It was really a nice (but exhausting) challenge and I'm glad we were able to do it! And you, would you do this the next time you spent time with a dear hobby friend?

Unexpected

Zelda TOTK - Stable's pictures quest (never without Epona)

All my Zelda TOTK stables pictures for the stables' quests.

🐎 As thoses are all about horses, I wanted Epona to figure on each one... I was thinking it would be an easy archievement (I started with the one with the bell tower) but in fact, the game kind of not wanted me to complete this.
BUT I'M (my bf) MORE OBSTINATED THAN THE GAME OKAY?

What do you think? Challenge completed? (if you have actually played this game you know what I mean...)
100% no cheating, all thoses pictures = we really went there WITH Epona, yes yes.

Behind the scene of the 3 most difficult pictures.
I hope you'll have fun watching this, sorry for the heavy speed edit but...

Never goes anywhere without Epona 🐴

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As I'm always blogging everything horse related, I though you may like a virtual horse adventure... let me know if you loved this!