Lonesome Glory Custom (New arrival!)

Yay! Finally he's arrived! I've been waiting for this guy for over a week.

Back before December 09' a friend of mine ,Miriam on Blab, shared a few pictures of him at some shows, with me. That's when I fell in love with him! So, that December he came up for sale on MH$P... I saw him, clicked the ad, and he was gone. He had been up for less than an hour. Miriam continued to share pictures of him with me for my own drooling pleasure. Then, this month he came up for sale on MH$P... I saw the ad... and inquired to purchase him. I waited a day or so for the reply, which made me so stressed. I came home to an email that said I was the first to inquire for him, so I sent payment and now he's mine!!! He arrived today! He's painted by Martina Glahe. Sadley, I'm not sure who the sculpting artist is. Since he was across seas, I got the expected condition of the box:

Luckily her amazing packing saved the day! These photos don't do him justice... at all. Please excuse the dust on him too (between legs/ belly/ chest/ face)

My gray day suddenly got filled with color!

..... Literally!

A good hobby friend of mine, Jacqueline Lee, recently sent me this pair as a "PIF"/ friendly gift. It's a cute little Hagen Renaker Moo-Moo and a little pewter rocking horse, that I hope to, yes, paint. lol.

The ugly stages of Keltic Salinero

I'd like to start my blog off by going right into details!

First, my name is Jenn Smith, and I've been Customizing horses for just under a year. Here's my website to follow: http://www.jennscollection.weebly.com/ I try to update it everytime I do something with my herd/ studio. So now, I'm going to be here, and also there. lol. AKA all over the place. But I'll try to stick here. I will be doing some tutorials and things on here in the future, just on how I do things.

Enjoy---

So first, I'd like to start off with this Keltic Salinero who's been sitting on my workbench for the past week or so. Well... actually.. he's been very... very slowly moving for the past 3 years. He started off life as the regular KS we all know and love. Then, I etched him... very... very harshly. He was the first Traditional I had owned, so I was a little upset with myself for ruining him. But, I figured I should turn him into something great, so, I cut off his head. Weee! I wanted to play potato head, but once I had his neck and head seperated from his body, I stuck a ton of parts together from an LG and Idocus.. and noticed everything was off scale. The LG head found it's way to the Idocus (See site). So then, I cut some more from the bottom of the KS's neck to make his head down. I went to a fabric store and got mighty putty. Oh wow. I tried to use it... first... the stuff smelled like doritos, second it NEVER DRIED. So, I threw him in the body box.. which is where he sat for a year or so. Recently I took him out, picked off the puty, and sculpted his open mouth. Months later I went back;

The first thing I did was saw off his entire left front section, starting at the withers down the front, past the breast, to right between the front legs, and then back up to the withers. Then I cut and moved his front left at the knee, and moved it out a bit. And the back left at the hock and moved it back. Then I went in and stuck his head on.

Then I filled him in a bit:

Then some more prepping, added wrinkles, he grew a tail, and grew... back his man bits: