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March 27, 2008 at 9:50 pm #684181
I just finished this little fellow.The horse part is a breyer stable mate with major resculpting of the face, new mane,forelock and eye,the tail was hand done and it was a see if I could do it on that small a scale. He’s got a lot of depth to his color I kept laying translucent color over color. I like him he’s got some spunk.
March 27, 2008 at 9:50 pm #494857March 27, 2008 at 10:08 pm #684182Very cute! You should make one with ocean colors!
March 27, 2008 at 11:48 pm #684183I like him, too! He looks like one of the brightly colored fish that might swim around a coral reef 🙂
March 28, 2008 at 6:14 am #684184Very nicely done, Shandi. What happens with these once you’ve finished them?
March 28, 2008 at 1:35 pm #684185Very nice! I really like the pose! 😀
March 28, 2008 at 1:47 pm #684186Very neat! Is that real coral?
March 28, 2008 at 7:06 pm #684187What happens after they are done ??
I pray that they sell 🙂 I depend on my art work to stay unemployed. My husband and I came to the agreement that I could stay home and work on my art and as long as I made enough to feed the 7 dogs and the 2 horses as well as thier medical needs then I can stay unemployed 🙂
I chose his color from some very interesting very brightly colored seahorses.
That chunk he’s sitting on is fake coral and I bought it a walmart just for him to sit on. Sometimes the little sculptures/remodels sell for more then big guys.
I sold a bat winged draft in copper and black for 75.00 a few months back! I am not going to complain. Sometimes a piece is sought after and I get bidding wars on them.
truthfully I just love doing them, big small, doesn’t matter I spend hours and hours working on them. I have three on my paint table waiting for color. I just started one that’s a lime green with gold undertones and she’s getting tribal spirals in black gold painted on her.March 28, 2008 at 7:22 pm #684188This one was done three years ago. He’s had some work done on him about 6 months ago when I learned how to do flexable fins. I love him. for some reason he never sold.
This isn’t the best picture but I’ll try and snap a few more. He’s really dusty right now and living on the top shelf oft he book shelfs.March 28, 2008 at 11:15 pm #684189I would have bought him, he’s lovely.
I like the red one too, but I’d like to see his eye.
Also, why did you resculpt the head, what’s wrong with the original one?
Kyrin
March 29, 2008 at 1:20 am #684190the little red guy I wanted him to look like a seahorse, those tiny little mouths. This particular one had his head smushed and in the process of trying to fix it I squished the eyes so I made a new one and covered the other one with a forelock. I’m not very good at sculpting from the raw, I do better when I have something to start with which is why I use the toy horses. So makeing a new eye was a challenge actually. I used a bead and covered it with epoxy.
I like “Rags” it has these dots of glass paint on his tail and body that look like gems. People asked me where I got such small gems 🙂March 29, 2008 at 2:01 am #684191So I had to put up some more pictures of Rags since he is my favorite.
March 31, 2008 at 4:41 am #684192These are lovely, particularly the second one (I really like the sculpt of the first one too, I’m just not as fond of bright colors). Great stuff!
March 31, 2008 at 5:42 am #684193Wow, Rags is lovely. I wonder that he didn’t sell. How much do your pieces usually go for, Shandi?
March 31, 2008 at 1:09 pm #684194I am very shocked but the large ones go for 175.00 and up and the little ones go for 35.00 to 65.00.
The little butterfly winged babies go for 25.00 to 28.00
I didn’t really set my pricing they just started going for that and that’s where I set the pricing.
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