Custom Horses by Creations By Mit

New to the forum, & not sure how to post photos, but will give it a try! Here is a CollectA Dartmoor pony that I customized.  

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And a link to a Safari Shire.....

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Hoping they show up!!!!!

WOW They are absolutely beautiful

Very beautiful works! Amazing!!! Do you have a website?

Your links were working but pictures were not showing directly on forum so I edited it.
Your works are wonderful, really! The color of pony is of a very good taste and very well done and the Shire is magnificent!

Thanks so much for the help!!! I am quite slow to grasp how to do these things!!

And thank you all for the encouraging comments!!

My website (right now a blog) is mostly for my illustration work: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]  but I frequently post the horses to my Facebook page (as well as the illustration, so you might have to scroll down or look in the photo albums). You can do a search for Creations By Mit or *try* the link below (not sure if I'm attaching correctly!!)

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Again, thanks so much for the kind words!!

Wonderul work! Everything is so smooth and well painted... Now that Shire actually looks a good model!
How great you decided to show your work, they're gorgeous!

Lovely work! And welcome here

Did you do the horse in your avatar too?

Ohhh beautiful do you have any tutorial how to do such beautiful dapples?

They are bautiful :)

You've got some beautiful models! They have such stunning shading and dapples too
Well done

They look really great!!
Those dapples are marvellous
And your illustrations are very sweet too

Thanks so much! :) I appreciate the kind words and the welcome! Yes, the horse in my avatar is a CollectA Morgan that I customized earlier this fall. I just love the sculptures Deb McDermott has done for them! I often work on Breyer models and artist resins, so I get very excited when CollectA has a new horse sculpture that looks realistic because they are SO much more affordable! (Some of the larger artist resins I work on are over $300 USD each, unpainted!) These models were done using layer upon layer of pure pigment and pastels. There is probably about 30-40 layers on each horse to build up the color, sprayed in between with fixative. The white areas and eyes are painted. Sorry, but I do not have a tutorial. I am not a very good teacher. :) I've been experimenting with the pigments since 2003, so lots and lots of trial and error to get to this point. But it has been fun!
Big thank you to those who checked out my Facebook page and website! I really appreciate it!

Wow, your work is beautiful!!! Love love the dartmoor!!! What a rich color and the dapples…

Keep posting pictures of your work, please!

Really nice paintwork those dapples apsolutly amazing!

Oh, gorgeous work, they are stunning!

WOW !!!

They are absolutely gorgeous

I always considered the Safari Shire a rather primitive sculpt, but with your paintwork he is awesome !!!

Very nice and welcome here:)

Your repaints look great

Thanks for all your kind words!
Here is a link to a Papo donkey I customized for a friend last year. (Sorry-I still haven't figured out how to attach photos!)
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Hope that sorta helps

Also, beautiful work.

Thanks, but I keep my photos on my hard drive, and you can't link to that. So the best I can do is send people to my FB page.

The donkey is so cute!!

I edited your post and donkey is showing directly now. It is ver beautiful really!
Just click right button of the mouse over the picture on your Facebook and choose, copy URL. Than go to your post on forum, click insert image button and with right button click paste where it appears the line to put the url and OK. Not hard at all, just try, you can always edit your post anytime you make anything wrong. :)

Your models are stunning, your pics are beautiful and your painting technique is very interesting

You wrote you don't have a tutorial. Please, take some pics on your next work and do a making-off, I'm sure it would be a great topic

Fantastic again!

Beautiful donkey too

I absolutely love spotted longears! I attended a live show this weekend where there were plenty of spotted mules, so adorable

Wow, they're all so wonderful!!! I just can't stop looking to that shire! So beautifull!

Thanks so much everyone! You guys have really given me a warm welcome here! And *BIG* thank you to Roger (Rogerio)!!! I'll give it a try now!!!

Let's see if I can post a full pic of the CollectA Morgan in my avatar....hmmmm......  

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SUCCESS!!!!!!

You did it!

Lovely Morgan too

Do you mind sharing how you do dapples? Do you do the q-tip technique? That's okay if you don't want to share.

I agree, beautiful dapples on the Morgan

Thank you, LeeAnn & Abby!
LeeAnn, I used to use Q-tips, but now I use very tiny brushes and applicators.

I am so glad you succeeded posting pictures! With your excelent works, I suspect it will turn in an excelent contribution to the forum.
I watched again your Shire, I use to judge the figures mainly based on their sculpts and I always found this figure very decent. With your repaint it rivals some composition Shire horses sculpts and puts the Safari figure very steps forward when compared with some other Shires from other known brands. I do really like it.

This guy is just gorgeous! wonderful!

Thank you! Yes, sometimes you really have to look hard to imagine the potential of a sculpture because the factory paint is rather plain, or not done well. The Safari Shire was originally black, and his face had pink that was too bright. I usually try to buy the sloppiest ones to re paint, and leave the better ones in the store for people to buy who will likely leave them as-is.b:)

I'm afraid I think I only have one or 2 others that would be of interest here. The rest are Breyer horses or artist resins. (we can't post those here, can we?)

I DO have several more CollectAs in my body box, though! I just need to find the time to work on them! :)

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Thank you! Yes, sometimes you really have to look hard to imagine the potential of a sculpture because the factory paint is rather plain, or not done well. The Safari Shire was originally black, and his face had pink that was too bright. I usually try to buy the sloppiest ones to re paint, and leave the better ones in the store for people to buy who will likely leave them as-is.b:)

I'm afraid I think I only have one or 2 others that would be of interest here. The rest are Breyer horses or artist resins. (we can't post those here, can we?)

Exactly, I think it should be exciting to repaint a figure that doesn't look good at all and reveal with a good painting the good sculpt hidden behind the poor manufacturing painting.
Why Breyer and artists resins cannot be shown here? We have a small group of Breyer fans but an interesting community of horse lovers always very interested in repaintings. Feel free to to show what you want on forum as long as it gives you joy. If anything is wrong I call the crocodile... or the macaque... or the Siamese cat... Fjord...

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Sassyscribbler wrote:

Thank you! Yes, sometimes you really have to look hard to imagine the potential of a sculpture because the factory paint is rather plain, or not done well. The Safari Shire was originally black, and his face had pink that was too bright. I usually try to buy the sloppiest ones to re paint, and leave the better ones in the store for people to buy who will likely leave them as-is.b:)

I'm afraid I think I only have one or 2 others that would be of interest here. The rest are Breyer horses or artist resins. (we can't post those here, can we?)

Exactly, I think it should be exciting to repaint a figure that doesn't look good at all and reveal with a good painting the good sculpt hidden behind the poor manufacturing painting.
Why Breyer and artists resins cannot be shown here? We have a small group of Breyer fans but an interesting community of horse lovers always very interested in repaintings. Feel free to to show what you want on forum as long as it gives you joy. If anything is wrong I call the crocodile... or the macaque... or the Siamese cat... Fjord...

Yes, please show your Breyers and especially artist resins!!!! Many will be very happy to see that! Also, if you explore the site more you will see more of us repaint or customise also Breyers or paint the artist resins too

Fjord to your service


I'm very interested in your ARs. I may have put a down payment on a new one recently. I wish I could have more, if only resin wasn't so expensive!

Yes, the are expensive, LeeAnn! I try to sell custom Breyers to fund my artist resins, but it seems I buy much more than I sell!

OK Roger! Then I will share the story of a small Artist Resin (a little smaller than the Safari Shire).
This is an Animal Artistry (UK) Friesian Mare. It was one of the very first resins I bought back in 2003. It traveled with me over the years as I moved to 2 different states, waiting patiently for paint. Then.....she fell over on the shelf and broke her 2 front legs (they are made of very brittle resin material)....and waited some more. FINALLY I repaired the legs in February & she could stand again! And she waited some more until I finished painting her in October. She went on to win a 1st place in workmanship at her very first show. I guess it was a good repair job!

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She's stunning! And congratulations on your live show win!

Hmm, any chance you show in Region 9 at all?

All the work was worth it, she's fabulous! Interesting pose and gorgeous paint job as you always have! Love her!

Thank you, LeeAnn & Jonas!

LeeAnn, I showed at a few region 9 shows when I lived in NJ (I worked in product development for Breyer from 2006-2010) but mostly trekked back up to region 10 to show (where I was originally from & where I am now). I went to a show in PA back in maybe 2007 or maybe 2008......was it yours?

Seeing how wonderful it is it doesn't surprise your good performance with it.
Interesting also that it was originally a Friesian and you gave a new look to that horse.
It is great that you keep sharing your works and it is also interesting to know that you're linked to Breyer. :)

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Thank you, LeeAnn & Jonas!  

LeeAnn, I showed at a few region 9 shows when I lived in NJ (I worked in product development  for Breyer from 2006-2010) but mostly trekked back up to region 10 to show (where I was originally from & where I am now). I went to a show in PA back in maybe 2007 or maybe 2008......was it yours?

No, that wasn't mine but I'm holding another one in May of next year and I live and show in Region 9, so I was curious if we would ever cross paths.

Working for Breyer is like a dream job! That must have been fun

I have no regrets, and learned a lot there, but I can assure you, it was not Disney World! It was 100% work.

LeeAnn were you at NAN in Harrisburg in 2013? Perhaps our paths have already crossed? It was my very first time at the nationals and I have to say, that Saturday was one of the most memorable days of my life! :)

Roger, I have to admit, painting friesians is is not really my thing. Too much black! Black can have beautiful undertones, though!

Lovely horse this Dafne! Beautiful paintwork on her Thank you for sharing!!!

Thank you, Ana!