LeeAnn's Customs Thread *Updated Feb 28

Wow, great job so far on your customs! I especially love the gypsy vanner.

Thanks Paige!

Very nice work LeeAnn, I especially like the Percheron (Why do I always especially like percherons??? )

Pastels ?

LeeAnn, please, make a Pastel tutorial topic for us

Beautiful horses LeeAnn! Tinker and Percheron are very beautifully painted. Congratulations!

what happened to the Stablemate one? Ha, actually it looks like nice patter for varnish Appaloosa now, doesn't it?

Kikimalou wrote:

Very nice work LeeAnn, I especially like the Percheron  (Why do I always especially like percherons??? )

Pastels ?

LeeAnn, please, make a Pastel tutorial topic for us

Hmm, that's a good question. I have no idea!

Hmm, I suppose I could do a tutorial, but what horse color?

Ana wrote:

Beautiful horses LeeAnn! Tinker and Percheron are very beautifully painted. Congratulations!

what happened to the Stablemate one? Ha, actually it looks like nice patter for varnish Appaloosa now, doesn't it?

Thank you Ana! I'm thinking the can of sealer I used on the SM was faulty. Happened three times now - twice on a black draft and now on this stock horse. I tried another can on the draft and it didn't cloud up, so I'm almost positive it's the can I used. Either way I have to strip and start over again. At least I only have a few layers on there and not nearly done!

The photo makes it look better than it is. The horse looks moldy and the white film is bumpy

Stil i think it doesn't look that bad ..
I would love to see a tutorial on a roan color!!
Ore a nice framovero oe oe oe ore a fjord like the nice boy in your name picture

Oh boy roans drive me crazy! I can try though

Aww I didn't do the fjord in my signature

JonasV wrote:

Two marvelous repaints again! I love the details on the Percheron and that color on the Tinker I'm little envious you are so good with pastels LeeAnn...   Can I ask what brand is the pastels you use? Or is it a secret?

The two sets I have are both made by Grumbacher.

LeeAnn wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

Very nice work LeeAnn, I especially like the Percheron  (Why do I always especially like percherons??? )

Pastels ?

LeeAnn, please, make a Pastel tutorial topic for us

Hmm, that's a good question. I have no idea!    

Hmm, I suppose I could do a tutorial, but what horse color?

Everything could be fine, with subtle changes... A tutorial please.

I need to know

LeeAnn wrote:

Aww thanks Jonas! To be honest it's just some cheap old set my neighbor gave me. I can check the box, but I don't know that they're even made anymore

Thank you! So it's just the artist who's painting them so well

You two are too kind

I will put a tutorial together for you when I have the time Christophe

Finished up this Henriette medallion sculpted by Clare Stokes.

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And a smaller-than-micro-mini Old Timer copy painted to "Mini-Me Jake." Jake is a Breyerfest prize model from 2002 which I'll likely never own, so now I have a mini-me.

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Size comparison between Breyer micro and Breyer SM.
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Anytime I visit this topic I see Fjords and more Fjords!
Very mega mini micro horse!

Of course fjords! Why anything else?

LeeAnn wrote:

Of course fjords! Why anything else?

Fjords for you, Percherons to Christophe, Icelandics to Susanne... is there any breed left for me?

How about a Lusitano?

LeeAnn wrote:

How about a Lusitano?

Well, that's a correct choice once I am Portuguese. I like them in real but in toys they don't use to look so elegant. :)
Curiously, I tried to search the horse of your state but although there are horses in your state flag, there isn't an official horse breed contrarily to what happens with other North American states. Which horse inspired that flag?

Buy an Esprit and pretend he's a Lusitano. He can be elegant or awkward, depending on how you look at him.

I guess they're supposed to be some sort of draft horse, though they look more like Friesians to me than drafts!

LeeAnn wrote:

Buy an Esprit and pretend he's a Lusitano. He can be elegant or awkward, depending on how you look at him.

I guess they're supposed to be some sort of draft horse, though they look more like Friesians to me than drafts!

Esprit is actually a nice horse with a big hairy problem. Though, Portugal is not such a winddy place... no tornados here usually. :)
Friesians? Well pointed!

Ooh I love your fjord LeeAnn! Gorgeous work there And that mini mini size horsey is really impressive. :)

Thank you Jonas

Love the mini me..
it really is very very small!
Greet job on holding your hands still will working on this little horse

Haha thank you! It wasn't bad, just sealing the horse and not my fingers was the tricky part.

The Fjord is lovely!! And the mini Oldtimer is incredible!! Sooo small, tiny!!! Great!

Thank you Shanti!