My first halter nameplates! And I see my mistake! I'll pry the sticker off and re-do these, cutting around the whole plate, or just put them on my own halter. At least I'll know how to make the next 2-3 for sales pieces, and any other nameplate halters moving forward. (I recently bought my own printer, after not having a functioning printer for 8ish years. The non-functioning printer was bought 8 or so years ago when I was in 11th grade I believe, and it has never worked. Not. One. Day. I didn't buy that one, so I couldn't do anything about it. This spring, it worked for maybe a month, so I lined up some projects I needed it for, and when I went to use it, it didn't work again. Massive *eyeroll* So I bought my own and I really love being able to print things again, including fun things like these stickers and fabric transfers!) The long metal strip is for making girth roller buckles, and I got my first tack making injury while trying to cut that strip. Thankfully it was just a REALLY small cut. I'm trying to get up the courage to trim it again, because it's not quite even.
These are the buckle sets for the Professional's Choice girths I'm making, and they are my first sales pieces! I'm using Rio Rondo english girth buckles, and adding a roller and tongue. Then they get some ribbon, elastic, and the rest of the girth. It's been a fun experience to make these for people and send them out! Although the rollers are a PAIN. Three and a half more to go for this round, then this half of the tack mat will get a different project for a while.
These will be chevron pattern halters, and will be sales pieces.
Onto the painting half of my table! The stablemates in front are in various stages, and the one on the right is my boyfriend's project. The big guy in back will be my third painted model, and I'll be aiming for a dark, shaded, dappled bay on him. I'll be experimenting with dapples and some mixed media, neither of which I've done before, and hoping the whole time that he turns out good enough to be a sales piece. I started sanding the logo off on him, but that's about as far as the prep has come. I paint in oils, so once I start painting him, I'll be able to switch back and forth between tack and painting while the paint dries.
This project is almost done! This is my NaMoPaiMo 2018 model, and I'm just finishing up sealing and glossing her now that the oil paint has cured. She is almost done, just one more layer of gloss on her eyes, then I have to do her hooves, and then she can graduate to my shelves upstairs. The silver paint pen was a PAIN and I wasn't happy with how it turned out, so I'll be trying a Micron pen next.
This is the unpainted resin shelf. From left to right is Upton, Last Tyme, Valor, Thunderbutt, Victrix, Veronka, Call me Ringo in resin (aka The Tippy Jerk That Has To Lay Down), and a Carol Herden Steer. I have an Aerosmith upstairs, but he is my favorite, so he gets to stay in my room. The steer will be going to it's painter soon. Most of these will probably stay unpainted for a long time. I'm going to do all of my experimenting and learning on cheap Breyer bodies until I get good at painting. If I can never learn to paint well enough to do these beauties justice, they will go to the professionals.
In this pile of bubble wrap is 4 medallions. Once I feel good enough with my painting skills to graduate to resin, I'll paint a few of these as practice with resin before moving onto a full (read: expensive) resin horse.
The Body Box! Honestly, I forget everything in here. The Cleveland Bay on top USED to be in my collection, until he jumped off the shelf, injuring both himself and my wall. Lets just say my wall was damaged, but not his ears.
And last, the other nooks and crannies of my space that need to be ORGANIZED. I'm actually good at it, but its usually low on the list :( These drawers will all be labeled at some point. The top label is still accurate, but the 1/8 inch nylon tag needs to be removed because I quickly outgrew that little drawer for nylon ribbon.
And for the most unorganized area of my space, this box. I actually call this The Giant Box Of Stuff. I honestly don't remember what all is in here either, but most of it is new. The Giant Box Of Stuff was born only about 6 months ago, and I know there's lots of Michael's and Hobby Lobby treasures in there, I just don't have the.........energytimemotivationgumptionstoragespace to go through it all just yet. ONE DAY, I will conquer this box.
That's it for today's studio space and project tour! There's a few other nooks and crannies, but that's about it. The projects I'm making the quickest progress on are the girths, since they were orders, and the Prism halters. Everything else is "as I have time", for now. Time always seems to be the most limiting factor though.
Come visit next week for "Monday Model" and "Off Topic Tuesday"!
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