New Items by Sharon Christensen

Sharon's work remains among my favorites at EquinArt Creations. I have a painted lamp in my office. I love how she paints everyday objects - some vintage, some new - into works of art. She's just sent us this peach vase and the picnic basket. The basket is terrific. It just makes me want to go on a picnic! Newly listed to our site. Enjoy! Find Sharon's work here.

Photo Showing and Making Jumps for Model Horses

This week, I'm judging an online model horse photo show...the first show I've judged in about a year. I cannot get over how far the hobby has progressed since I entered my very first photo show in 1978. In the 1970's, if you had a 35 mm camera and could take closeups of the model horses, you were probably heading for the blue ribbon! I loved photo showing. My very first show was held by Alice Bulson. Does anyone remember Alice? Is she still around? I won a blue ribbon for my Breyer FAS in Western pleasure...and I bought a Josef Palomino lying down foal, Sultan's Golden Prince, off of Susan Peplinski for a whopping $5 in 1980, because I remembered how well he did showing. I'm joining TOPSA in 2010, and will be showing my own personal collection of Breyers, Stones, Josefs, Hagen Renakers and of course some selected EquinArt resins. I hope to see YOU in the show ring!!! Today's photo is my collection, circa 1980 or thereabouts...

And now for the crafty people out there....those who like crafts, that is!


A new how-to video for you: making jumps for your model horses.

How to Paint Model Horses, Part I

Model horse painting....I've got resins to paint, and my last attempts back in the 1980's to paint Breyers were disastrous. So I decided to hunt around You Tube for some video tutorials. Thought I'd start sharing them here. Enjoy!

Horse Themed Christmas Trees

My riding coach back on Long Island had a horse-themed Christmas tree. In fact, the two ladies that ran the riding stable where I worked BOTH had horse themed trees. Every ornament, from top to bottom, on their Christmas trees was a horse! Each Christmas we would give our coaches horse-y ornaments. One year, I made paper mache ornaments for them. I made Sculpey molds, then made paper mache and placed it over the molds. I painted them and added hair. They actually came out pretty good!

This year I made a few horse themed Christmas ornaments myself. I bought a package of plastic horses at the dollar store. I glued on ribbon for hooks, then decorated them with sparkled, little bits of holly and such. Their cute gifts for the holiday season.

Do you do a horse themed Christmas tree? Do you collect Breyer ornaments? My sister gave me a few, but in truth, I find them too big for my tree. I like the Father Christmas one, and I have one of a horse inside of a stirrup.

I have the four Western horse ornaments (we sell them in our online Christmas shop) as well as a pretty resin one that Candace Liddy gave me for Christmas. But my own tree is an eclectic mix of ornaments reflecting mostly nature (a lot of bird ornaments on my tree, along with snow flakes!) and ornaments passed on by my parents.

Do you do a horse themed Christmas tree?

Aart, New Appaloosa Foal Resin

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I took Shadow out for a walk and visited with a neighbor for a bit. On our way back, we walked right into a huge flock of Bobwhites (tiny quail) in our driveway. They were so pretty. I have never seen them in person. For this city kid, it was quite a breathtaking site. They are about the size of pigeons (the city kid in me again!) but russet brown and white, with a distinctive white circle around the eye. They were nosing in the fallen leaves on the edge of the woods. There must have been dozens!

Today I'm sharing with you photos of Michelle Platt's newest resin, just added to our online store. Isn't he adorable? Meet Aart, Wyakin's little foal! He's LITTLE BITS scale to match her "wee Wyakin" release, the small scale Wyakin she did as a charity release. He is an edition size of 200 pieces and casting is by Resins by Randy, so do allow a few weeks for shipment, okay? But you can order him now...he's ready to go!

Michelle will have a scratching goal to match, and we will offer both foals for a little bit of a discount. If you want just Aart, go ahead and order. If you want them, both just tell me when you order Aart and I will extend the discount to you when I get his sister (!) listed. I don't have photos or info yet as little sis isn't at the casters yet but when I have it, I will post it.

This gorgeous painted Aart is called "Rum Raisin" and was created by Sherrylynne Shaver. I just love Sherrylynne's work....so, so detailed!

Happy Thanksgiving (belated) and enjoy your day!

Mini Me

Someone also said that the new TWH micro mini looks like a "mini Indy". Now remember that the parked out pose for a Tennessee Walking Horse is common...we are IN NO WAY trying to copy another artist's work! Our tiny micro mini TWH, however, does look kind of like a nice little mini of our Stablemate TWH, which is cool...they were both sculpted by Maggie Bennett! The head is turned to the opposite sides, though. Check out the detail on the painted Stablemate by Katie Schmidt.

Speaking of mini me's, or mini horses....look for an announcement concerning a mini of one of Michelle Platt's most popular resins, coming soon!

Surprise! More New Micro Minis

I love surprises. Imagine my delight when Maggie Bennett sent me an email saying she had five more micros ready - so that makes NINE micros for 2009! An even nicer surprise was our pewter caster saying he'd have them ready in one day - so I should have them in stock by this weekend, November 14. I just have to say - and this is Jeanne, model horse collector talking here, not Jeanne at EquinArt - I love the action poses. I'm in love with Roscoe's snorting, fire breathing rearing pose. He's going on my desk for sure. Now to figure out what color to paint him...! He's at left. Head on over to the website to see the whole new, wonderful gang of micro minis by Maggie Bennett!

Get 'em while they're hot (and in stock!) - click here.