My entry for the Art of the Horse (by Stone Horses company) have Won!

In march I posted about participating and beeing selected as finalist at the Art of the Horse competition held by Stone Horses and I'm thrilled to announce that I've won my category (flat art - traditional media).

As an artist it's always a great time to archieve such a recognition.
Also I could never thank enough the fact it was open to international. AOTH is a contest that merge two of my great passion: art and modelhorse. And please, look at the georgeous models they have made inspired by my drawing.

 
I cannot wait to have it in hand... it'll be my first Stone Horse model and then a long time wish coming true in my collection! I really cannot express properly how happy I am now.

All credits goes to Stone Horses by Volo Artem for the pictures & graphics.

 Also pssst if you want to see all the entries & placings, check this link for Braymere's blog... that quite something to see! 

In the land of brown horses, a black one is creative...

After a first week with Clémentine at my home, we went to Sabrina' stables.

As far we know, Sabrina is having very different taste than me when it came to horses... she doesn't like spotted horses and collect all shade of boring brown horses (minus one that's black)...

Sabrina & all her horses; Kingdom (dressage prospect, TF), Aliénor (only mare, TF), Ko Ko (her new personnal riding horse since she lost Quirian, TF), Amiral (retired, TF) and Ramdam (retired, SF). 

All of us three did a lot of things that week - it went really fast as good times always runs fast; including horse riding of course. And like always, a lot of timer pictures...

(timer picture 1)

I rode mostly Aliénor because she's my personnal favorite of the lot, but also Kingdom wich is a great and kind gelding.

Clémentine did the opposite she rode mostly Kingdom but also Aliénor (wich is her favorite too).

And Sabrina took Ko Ko (he's Aliénor son by the way), of course... 

(timer picture 2)

It was great, we did a trail together... and the last time we were able to do such was... well a long time ago (2016). I hope we are going to be able to do that kind of fun rides again sooner next time...

But here start the real highlight of this trip... 

On our first day together we went thrifting, because all of us three are addict to fleamarkets. When it come to serious things like that, I'm always in the starting blocks and might walk quicker than a normal people... so I was heading first, searching and then I saw something. I saw it but decided to ignore it in the sake of my room space. Then I finished touring the fleamarket and got back to my friends left behind and suddently out of nothing they said "did you saw...?"

And I was like "yes but no" wich is a firm nope except that maybe it wasn't really...

Because who can resist the most perfect spotted horse of them all? Not me... and in the end, I knew I was going to spent an amonth of time in a stable with absolutely no spotted horses at all, so yes of course, I had to found one for myself 😂

 

 (timer picture 3) 

So in the land of brown horses, a black spotted one is creative! (don't hesitate to let me know if my humor is bad, but I'm still laughting at this)

Kalinka in the fields

A bunch of pictures of Kalinka enjoying her field, wich were difficult to archieve because of grass photobomb & Ucello photobomb. Well... we do what we can with with what we have.

Amira in the fields

 A large bunch of pictures of Amira living her best life in the fields... I'm pretty glad about this serie. And there's action shot, wich is always appreciated...

Behind the scenes of a challenge... 2

You might have seen that my friend Clème (@agrasstory) and me have spent a few days together again, and this time we wanted to redo our one picture a day challenge like the last time.

Sunday we went out for garages sales/fleamarkets... as it makes us drives far from my home we took some horses with us. The idea was to found a random place to do a picture, depending on the road aleas... but we didn't really found what we wanted and ended in one of my favorite geologic curiosity spot, les pénitents des Mées.

That strange cliff is what remains of... presence of the sea. In our moutain area there's a lot of signs (especially fossils) that remind us that in the early years of life in this planet there was not mountains but the sea there.

Monday we went to see Amira. She was in an usual field so we went exploring a bit as I didn't knew this new place. We did pictures...

Then on a regular field that Amira and her herd has just left (so no high grass) we staged my idea of highline.

Tuesday we went the farest, to the Rustrel Colorado but that place have changed a lot, now you cannot walk freely into like we used to do and we had to stage our pictures underneath a rope... not easy and really deceptive.

The last days were filled with a lot of toys washing and few spare time, but we still managed to do pictures. Just to explain a bit, Clème came mostly to help me with all the unwashed/unsorted toys of my last years of thrifting... I went just a tiny little bit overwhelmed by thoses as I lack of time.

So wednesday, we didn't went far and just enjoyed the local river. It was a quick stagging.

Thursday, we choose an idea that involved some of my childhood miniature grocery store props; the chips bag and cola bottles beeing my favorites. Again, we didn't went far but Clème entertained us with the best pictures postures :')

We called this one the "PLS (recovery position)" it made us laugh a lot.

Friday was the last day, we coupled our picture with a visit to Amira, she gaze at us doing our stupid things.

At the end of this week, we were a bit exhausted and disgusted by so many pictures, but at least really glad to have done it once again...

 

...But it was not the end of our trip. On our way to the second part of it, we payed a visit to Kalinka.

 To be continued...

One picture a day challenge! 2

Last month, my friend @agrasstory came at home. As always, modelhorse pictures were planned, we decided to try again to do one a day... here's the result:

Day 1 (sunday): 

Maybe, just maybe Anne is tired to be hitting on by @agrassstory 's male riders... she's tired of it and really wish she could ride alone, just one time...
Do you think her dream will come true?

 

 
Day 2 (monday):

Mule train, yeah, yeah.
Mule train: clippetty-clopping over hill and plain. Seems as how they'll never stop.

Way seems like they stopped.

 

Day 3 (tuesday):

 

@agrassstory told me my "captions" about my pictures were too serious, so I've wrote some humor for the first two... but how could I mess with this badass native couple? I cannot. Sorry. 

 

Day 4 (wednesday):

Are you looking at that shirtless guy or at the horses? Wrong answer only.

 

 Day 5 (thursday):

Girls night, it's tonight!
Don't forget to grab your favorite snack ;)
Wich one would you bring?
Ay Que Viva La Sangria!

 

Day 6 (friday):

One bucket to rule them all; one bucket to find them; one bucket to bring them all...

It was as exhausting as the first one... but we did it!