Just heard from Sheri Rhodes that Bravio's waste mold is completed and has been sent back to Cat for touch ups. For Cathy's sculptures, we actually have to make two molds to get it perfect. The first mold, the waste mold, is cast and captures the original clay work that Cathy sculpted. The problem though is that during shipping there's always a ding or two in the clay, no matter how carefully Cat packs the work. So we have a mold created and one resin cast made and shipped back to Cathy. She then touches up the resin cast - sanding, sculpting, whatever she needs to do to get it just right. Cat's a perfectionist and she'll work on these sculptures until in her opinion they are just right, and believe me with her experience - working for the USET, owning and showing horses her whole life, fox hunter and just an all around expert on horses - I trust her judgment completely. Bravio's waste cast, as it is called, is then shipped back to Sheri at Mountain View Studios for the final production mold. At that point, we order copies for the customers who ordered early. It's a long process, but we are always trying to get it just right, and make sure that EquinArt's works remain the best available to model horse and horse art collectors worldwide.
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