tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88097240393753309482024-03-06T12:01:54.162-08:00Morgen's Sculpting JournalDelving into the highs and lows of one artist's journey of pursuing classical equine figure study.Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.comBlogger383125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-52183114514671665072017-02-26T19:53:00.002-08:002017-02-27T08:03:13.522-08:00Sculptures from 2016!I'm quite overdue to share some horses I sculpted, released and even had in a major museum exhibit show in 2016<br />
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There were probably 3 major works wrapped up that I'll share and leave it at that.<br />
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First off, since most here are collectors; my newest sculpture for Breyer, "True North". The first color released will be this eye catching overo silver (I do hope I have that right?) by Stephanie Michaud! However I don't have a great photo of that outside of the renewal notice BUT... more recently they also shared there will be 25 raffle models made on this new sculpture mold of mine for Breyerfest. Those, this bay-like dark buckskin with the single belly spot, will be raffled off on Sunday. SUPER stoked about his color there - AND gang, I am fairly sure you are seeing the actual plastic model in those photos so I will share those first:<br />
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pretty faithful reproduction from what I can tell so far... the shoes look good for instance, I can see some details I sculpted into the neck are crisp and clear! :)</div>
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What we will get in the next month or so (I hope!) ... always an anxious time for me, waiting to hear what folks really think when they have them in hand. Well and to see if much has changed. I want to eventually, soon, do a post on how sculpture changes in various media - bronze, to ceramic. Nothing earth shattering about how it translates to plastic but casual observations. </div>
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NEXT... omg how I could NOT share Tetradrachm last year. I guess the fall got pretty full and then things with dad started to happen. </div>
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Tetradrachm was on display at Breyerfest 97% complete maybe but I wrapped him up in Oct. Owing to how busy I was already planning to be before things went south, I already decided to make him a longer edition than I typically do (normally I do 3-6months now I think). Anyhow, THIS time I decided to go for a full year. Well anyhow, he's cruising along well. I will share a couple, including one customized by Mindy Berg because I want people always to know I waive VARA on resins (and I really don't mind customizations). It's always good to ask of course, someday I might sculpt something that I'm contractually limited on more but for myself, I simply do not mind.</div>
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I've been sending him around to shows and he's picked up NAN cards at every stop so far. I had planned to proxy him at NAN this year but since it's been cancelled I will probably sell him before then, we'll see. I'm going to keep shipping him around the country I think however so he gets seen. <br />
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Then before things got crazy last fall I was honored to have a new work, in a newer style to me selected as part of this;<br />
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The exhibit was from October to January. There is a very large file catalogue on the website, or you can see the amazing work here; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/SocietyOfAnimalArtists/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1404562136239622">https://www.facebook.com/pg/SocietyOfAnimalArtists/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1404562136239622</a><br />
The Houston Museum of Science is one of the bigger ones I've been to, (<a href="http://www.hmns.org/">http://www.hmns.org/</a> if you're interesting) and honestly I would have liked a second day to spend exploring some of the really fascinating exhibits. I'm not sure what's permanent but it was amazing to be a part of in any way.<br />
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I uploaded the coolest 360 interactive viewer from there, lets see if I can embed that here for posterity;<br />
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We didn't make it for the SAA opening this time but were able to make a long overdue vacation of it. I don't think we've taken a vacation that length and variety in over a decade, other than traveling home for holidays. It was warm though, even in September!<br />
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This 3rd accepted entry in one of the Society of Animal Artists Annual Exhibition promoted me from Associate member to Signature member which in and of itself is a huge honor. Much like my other signature member organization I belong to, the Academy of Equine Art, these letters literally can be used in my signature; as in Morgen Kilbourn, S.A.A.. And also I can put A.A.E.A as well, so S.A.A., A.A.E.A I believe with a comma between is how it's written? I'm not really sure of all the rules that accompany post nominal letters BUT I will say that I'm quite humbled to realize that a few of my earliest and fondest equine artist heroes have used both organizations in their signature. I have seen these letters early on on sculpture signatures and wondered what that must be like. It's and interesting place to be. I often still have to remind myself to sign my work (and put chestnuts on.. not kidding at all regarding either and I worry what age is going to bring next.. ears? oh yes right!). ;) I may very well revert to my MK logo stamp however for the most part. Although I'm not doing myself any favors, there are a LOT of sculptors with those initials. :)<br />
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Ok, well enough waxing philosophical... there is much more I need to catch up on here on this blog but another day. I hope to make this a habit this year. I've got excitement in works in the studio, of many media types! Back to it for me tonight...trying to catch up! More soon...<br />
<br />Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-69355670903976270302016-11-22T13:59:00.002-08:002016-11-22T13:59:20.655-08:00Grateful for the teachings of Dad<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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At the risk of being sermonic I’d like to start by urging those
of you who are able, please humor me and those of us without parents this
reminder to hug and appreciate your parents, family and loved ones this
Thanksgiving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It’s always a shock to lose family and loved ones, and it’s
a standard aphorism that we should never take them for granted. But man is it
so true. Losing my mom in 2011 was a shocking surprise to me despite her heart
condition…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think this awareness made
me put extra effort into connecting with dad when I can these last 5 years
because, due to his health and serious issues requiring many hospitalizations,
I’ve been sort of bracing myself to lose him for almost a decade now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So we just lost my dad earlier this month after he was
already in the hospital for 2 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was a roller coaster few weeks of hope and loss for us and the oversimplified
version of it is that he had had a series of small strokes. After, these past
few weeks, during which all of his children had visited with him and stayed
with him, and after it was clear the doctors could do no more he was removed
from life support and passed peacefully.</div>
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Many know how close I was to my dad as he was a 3D
Designer and commercial sculptor too (also inventor and more which I’ll get
to).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strangely the shock isn’t half as
much as he’s been having serious issues that put him in the hospital for years
now. I’ve rather been preparing myself and *MORE IMPORTANTLY* trying to forgive
any frustrations and just write to him and stay in touch in any way I could
while I could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See there was much I
wanted to say to my mom but she passed very suddenly and I honestly wish I’d
thought to write her more letters too so the things I couldn’t say in time on
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I discovered this early mentor/student exchange saved among his papers</td></tr>
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Also, don’t take handwritten letters for granted
either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Years down the road I still have
correspondence from grandparents and great grandparents, a legacy that’s interesting
and valid still and gives incite to my early childhood and thus who I am and
where I came from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you can find those
and keep those.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And consider writing
hand printed letters so that future generations can too.</div>
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And of course photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m so glad we’ve got hard copy photos everywhere for the memories.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My youngest brother isn't present yet (I'm only 3 here) but a rare group pic</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In City Island NY, on Iris</td></tr>
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So let’s see… I won’t do my dad’s legacy any sort of justice
because I’m rather private about sentimental things I guess but to start, my
place in the scheme;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was my mom's only
child. My 3 older siblings (like me) also lost their mother a while back to
cancer in the early 2000’s. We all have a younger brother and I'm honored to be
good friends with his mom as well. That’s 5 Kilbourn Kids total.</div>
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</span>As such, he really adopted a mentoring role with me on his weekends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was definitely lucky this way with both
parents really trying very hard and showing me tons of love <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and edumacate me as best as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I definitely felt that I was raised as an
only child aspect despite having siblings I saw mostly at the holidays. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sibling household dynamics fascinate me and
most of my close friends and even my husband all come from bigger households.
:)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad always encouraged my horse obsession - here he is holding my OTTB mare "Fussy"</td></tr>
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Mom and dad were separated when I was 3 so it was just mom and I from then on
with visiting dad every other weekend.<br />
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Both mom and dad were also brilliant sensitive people with
advanced degrees and it’s interesting that I haven’t matched their level of
education (Masters) nor do I feel half as smart as them (IQ tests bear that out
too admittedly) still in many ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad
was big on letting me know anything was possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, the whole “but could I be president”
sorts of conversations parents have with their kids as well as encouraging me
in any way possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still despite being
a “know it all” and privileged kid quite honestly I’ve always been humbled by
my parents’ insightfulness and intellect.</div>
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Dad also was very big on adventures, many stories there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will leave those off… many of them involved
him saying “Whoops!” hahaha… and then adventure ensued. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He actually lived in the apartment at this boatyard for much of the time. Smurf was off to Hartford (Coleco offices) I presume.</td></tr>
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And then of course there was the very informative time spent
with him in the studios or home workshop doing 3d projects for the companies he
worked for (when being lead designer means rush projects don’t stop just
because you have your kid for the weekend).. I spent hours marveling at how
things worked in a toy company for example.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Being the cobbler’s child I actually had very FEW toys..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even more oddly this actually made me leery
of ever pursuing art, especially commercial art, as a career!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s grueling work and USUALLY* it’s
uncredited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often you work with a whole
team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was always sad to see he not
only didn’t get to sign his name to his work but he also had to pass it on to
the next parts of the team for refinements – his work being altered!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an aspiring artist this was a shock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Now to be clear there were other artists in my family,
extremely talent fine artists all too and their work was unadulterated and more
typical “art” forms. However they didn’t sell enough to make a living at it
(even though internationally recognized). This was the lesson really, it’s rare to make a living wage
anymore as a full time artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad went
from freelance to full time employment back to freelance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He liked his work most of the time, at least
I never heard him dislike much, but also to was the lesson of doing art you
don’t like or that isn’t very “artistic” (like designing joy stick controller).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All commercial artists (3d designers to
graphic) are probably familiar with that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And honestly it probably made it easier for me to broach graphic design
as a career later and then eventually accept and really appreciate the
commercial work I’ve done, limited as it is so far.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Why not drop this here. No explanations really needed.</td></tr>
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To be clear about one other thing, doing work that’s not
moving you, such as making graphic designs for something very mundane and drab
like a corporate folder, is like a bad day of fishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s still better than anything else you
could be doing for a living. ;)</div>
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Working full time as an artist is a gift and I learned that
from dad in spades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being able to make
your own career path was his goal for all his children and all of us have had
our own businesses for the most part.</div>
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I’ve discussed with him earlier this year for instance the
time he worked with Coleco on the Cabbage patch kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember him back in the 80s going off to
meet Xavier Roberts and his Babyland General world he had created for the
original soft faced dolls.. it was the sort of work story ANY kid would
remember (he also met other people for other projects, and had similar wild
stories about what their studios were like).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However I also remember seeing these 2inch diameter “kids” dad was
sculpting and being incredibly skeptical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I asked him this year why they ever had him work so small on the
initial designs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess there were
consultants brought in from outside (other major toy) companies and ultimately
the design was reworked by a 3<sup>rd</sup> party group in China or some such
deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was really fascinating to me
honestly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also makes me appreciate
the companies I have done work for that have given me credit at the END of the
game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may be a lot of pressure but
sometimes it’s a little sad that the artist cogs in the wheels of design are
forgotten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So please know that my dad
was involved in many hits of the 70s and 80s including aspects of these recognizable hit items;</div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Cabbage Patch kids (to be clear - Xavier Roberts is the artist who created these for a long time prior to the super fad)</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Smurf mobiles and other lots of smurf gizmos
(creator/designer Peyo sounded equally as interesting as Roberts, at least his studio did. I don't remember if dad met him directly)</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Cat in the Hat mobiles & things (I don’t
remember him going to meet Suess though, pretty sure that didn't happen)</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>ET mobile et al, (I do remember him VERY excited
to go meet Spielberg and then instead only to get to meet both Spielberg’s
assistant but also only ET’s understudy/double as the real deals were far too
busy... it's never as glamorous as you would think)</li>
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There were maybe 5 to 10 other artists on these projects
with him but he was still one of the unsung heros there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m such a fervent supporter of giving
artists credit still to this day in part because when we don’t respect the
“creatives” as they were once called in the biz, the creatives leave and the
world without the more brilliant creatives is a very soul-less place I don’t
want to see come to fruition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watching
him work taught me the value of team and also of self-respect there.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad's Olin boot patent (see that long link below for this on the patent office site)</td></tr>
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Dad used to tell me stories too and I would think they were
exaggerated only to learn later on that nope, they really were true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like that he “invented” a major design for
Olin ski boot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember doing a report
on it when I was younger, “my hero is my dad” theme and having a drawing of the
gusset he’d gone in on a patent for, but later when the internet became a thing
and I stumbled across the ability to look up patents for ha’ha’s I looked up
his name and well, here it is;</div>
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Just him and Bob on that one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sketches are so standardized I’m not sure
if he or Bob or a 3<sup>rd</sup> party artist was brought in to do them (I can’t
recognize his work there but almost feel like those are his handwriting style
numerals).</div>
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Other crazy stories all the time would crop up and sort of blow my mind a bit.. I was talking about Bucky ball technology once and he mentioned "I knew Buckminster Fuller" and I'd pause. What? And then he'd mention he took a class or maybe it was a short workshop by him at Pratt. It wasn't too much of a story or name dropping, he just was like that. He did a lot, knew a lo and met a lot of really cool people too. Dad just lived a <b><i>fascinating</i></b> life.</div>
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Also quickly back to life as a kid of a Coleco employee for
a minute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we head into Christmas
season here I can say that 34 years ago I was transformed into a begging
pleading kid “omg omg omg can you get me one???”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned that despite being an employee
there, and an “insider”.. that more employees wanted dolls than Coleco had for
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So there was a closet with a PILE
of dolls and a raffle system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that
the dolls would not be boxed or come with their birth certificates (a major
part of the charm I guess).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d like to
add that this is pretty much the only doll I ever wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though I’d scorned the little 2inch
faces a year before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go figure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hype works man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyhow, I did get one. I remember her name
still, Alyssa (maybe spelled differently).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She came in a box and I later learned he didn’t win the raffle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isn’t that ironic?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later on he did get one for his 3<sup>rd</sup>
wife and I recently salvaged her from storage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She’s in rough shape here (and not very valuable as a factory sample –
it’s all sentimental). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyhow, that was
an interesting bit of madness/history that gave me insight into companies that
would serve me later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Refugee
from the storage items that are mostly gone now. She's very moldy and
damaged. One of those 'employee closet' dolls later on after that first
crazy hyped Christmas.</td></tr>
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I just cannot emphasize enough what a force he was in urging
me to be as creative as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From
offering to help in any way, with supplies and help cutting things (most 10
year olds don’t wield dremels).. to photography.. to graphic design work even. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel like the luckiest of my siblings in
that way, that I had this ability to relate to that, and he always espoused how
proud he was of how industrious I was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was my outlet, as I was pretty much a loner (and still sort of am
most of the time). There were also things my siblings just didn't understand like all the gifts of the more unique dead animals he found. One almost ruined Christmas but I took the bag elsewhere to open it and my siblings remained mostly ignorant of the horrors it held). ;) I definitely was encouraged to be different as were each of his children in special ways. We all got newspaper clippings of stories and cartoons applicable to us.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad showing my horse for me at a farm fun show. He loved animals.</td></tr>
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Then there was the practical dad stuff too.. Albeit not entirely in the normal ways. Such as that dad also taught me to drive…with a few twists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously, like “lets take the [nice classic
car fanciers collector item] Toronado car to the hay field and drive in between
bales of hay”…. And one pair he had me drive between pushed in both side mirrors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This car was in such nice condition you can
only imagine. Or you had better go into this snowy parking lot and blow donuts until
you learn how to correct a slide in the snow or ice (very very valuable
skill). </div>
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He also taught me to boat years before, mostly driving an
outboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact recently I had a dream
I inherited one of the (many) boats he lived on (serially)… and realized I still
didn’t know diddly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a stress
dream about not being able to do things he would dance around and do as par for
the course in boating. Just little "hold on let me moor her better here before we go" type of things I'm sad to say I wouldn't even know where to start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He even would take newbie
boat owners at the marinas he lived at out on their boats and give them tips and ideas. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Rottie is "Duncan" and the brindle guy, "Taco" was mine at this time but I gave him to dad when Duncan died. Taco was so happy living life as a boatyard dog with dad.</td></tr>
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Dad was totally a teacher at heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>First and foremost a teacher and I think most people felt a pretty charismatic one, the kind that got you interested in the topic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He initially taught art after he graduated from Wesleyan (Masters in teaching) if I recall the course of events correctly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know he met my mom this way, and
taught at the same high school in Hamden as my mom’s dad (also art teacher, and
a sculptor whom he admired – which is how my parents met).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We spent a lot of time talking about his
teaching as I tried to learn tips on how to be a better teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really haven’t gotten many, he was a
natural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I once watched him explain to
someone how a combustion gas engine works with a loaf of French bread, spoons
and glass jars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later cgi graphics
verified for me how accurate his piston examples were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It's a rare talent to be able to make due with supplies at hand to teach more complicated principals with not only accuracy but entertainment value!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad and my brother this past summer, in a boat again obviously! Dad is telling interesting stories about the river here.</td></tr>
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A couple of years ago we were walking (very slowly, he was extremely weak at the time) in a groomed trail wooded area of
North Carolina swamp preserve and he pointed out a buck standing off in the distance
in the woods. Despite the horns with all the wood and the deer being frozen still I struggled to see even after being aware of it and its
location.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad always was a good shot, it
runs in the family.. but this wasn’t about hunting, it was about being sharp
and observant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can only hope to be
half that sharp into my 70s, let alone beyond.</div>
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So much is lost when we lose anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dad was of course not perfect and he
himself would say he wished he’d taken better care of himself if he’d known he
was going to live so long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That said, he
lived and died on his own terms in many respects and while that decision to
accept removing life support was hard, his passing immediately let us know that
he was ready.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Captain Kilbourn living life on his own terms. Smooth seas dad. We miss you.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There
is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as
simply messing about in boats.</span></span><br />
<b>The Wind in the Willows</b></span></div>
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</span>I send the sculpture out to a scanning company –
it’s prepped. More on why it has a post
in it’s belly in a bit.</span></span></div>
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</span>They scan and give me a digital file.</span></span></div>
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</span>I send said file around to various printers
& get quotes… here’s where it got difficult. Kelly Sealey came to my rescue and dumbed
down the file (she left all the detail, she does movies!). This had to happen because even the companies
that make medical imaging parts said the file was too complex for them to
print. Quotes were also in the high
thousands for a print out.</span></span></div>
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</span>Once Kelly had helped me with this file I also
got a cheapo freebie 3D file manipulation software program to do a few fixes
myself.</span></span></div>
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</span>Then I uploaded it to Shapeways & got an
ultra high detailed (see photos though, it’s still very lined!).. printed
physical ~4<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"inch tall</span> copy… not done yet at all though!</span></span></div>
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</span>This 3D printing material is very hard to
sand/work with so I molded the clear master just like I would any clay
sculpture and then worked with it to finish it with full details you’ve all
come to expect of me in the white resin. I didn't want to just fill in or loose details to smooth it out (that's not so hard & IS a LOT faster).
Ultimately I painted my white resin with rust colored primer and then spot painted with an airbrush or paint brush in spots to keep it super thin and not fill in those details & still be able to
check smoothness and add the wee-est of the wee wrinkles and bumps and such.</span></span></div>
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</span>I also got <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~1"tall </span>micros printed for a 10<sup>th</sup>
of the price ea from Shapeways too.
Having several of those to compare it’s interesting to note that the same
file does NOT have the same print lines in each direction ea time. Very odd actually to me considering how I
thought the process works. Anyhow, I’ve
had a friend cast these in a hard black resin after some wasted time trying to
sand and detail one of them out too.. pretty hard to do! I don’t want to revisit the resin to finish it
up for a few months. It’s just hard
work. My regular casters won ‘t cast
micros either (too small/easy to break and they can’t charge enough to pay
their employees for it)… so I’m looking at using my friend’s talent and good
nature at casting there around her own schedule when I finally AM ready. So I don’t know how many I will offer at a time or what with the
micros just yet. They are amazing but
they break if you breath on them wrong…</span></span></div>
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Ok, so here are the comparisons of the Shapeways print (clear) and then the redetailed resin (rust) I cast off of that to finish the sculpture. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">& </span>With that explained, I’m going to leave you with
pictures for the rest here. :D I
think they more aptly show how it’s not nearly as simple as scan and print
smaller. ;) Also.. while I used to have a place to recommend the
scanning for I think my experience here wasn’t good enough to recommend them.. what
with getting a file that even the scanning company’s recommended printer couldn’t
physically work with (too many polygons) .
Kelly pointed out to me many times that too complicated was a GREAT
problem but having a super sized 160MB file that took a day to transfer here
& there to the various companies for quotes.. and then they couldn’t use
(it’s interior and exterior so the scanning company made it microfine thin)..
for the average artist they didn’t give me
a functional product… so I just cannot recommend them. I just don’t think that artists are their typical
customer. Maybe I was saddled with a bad
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you zoom in than you can see here too,
but lets look back at my two former times (<a href="http://mksculpt.blogspot.com/2008/08/virtual-bosco.html">posts from 1 & 2</a>) I’ve
done this with bitty bosco and dinky duke here for comparison!</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Virtual bitty started 3 years later in 2008 was much smoother.. but you can see in later posts that that still was just as lined in the small small size. It cost a lot more then still to print. Some thing like $385 if I recall correctly. So again, cost has decreased for this level of quality.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the oldest.. the technology for smoothing here was top notch at the time.. however as you can see from my mini prototype close ups of Hazel - in 10 years the printing hasn't really gotten much better.. see the post link above to see the top-quality printing of 2005. That cost something like $500 back then. It's half that now and quite fast at least with Shapeways and similar companies!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Special Note on WHY I went there again… I was really
planning on finishing Tetradrachm as late as June when I was suddenly
petitioned! :D See e<span style="line-height: 115%;">arly in 2015 a
number of wonderful and persistent :) hobbyists requested that I make a mini
hazel. The older I get the more challenging these minis get for me but I mostly
was hemming and hawing due to the costs of 3D scanning and printing. Well.. a
good friend asked me how many it would take for me to go ahead and take the
fiscal plunge and then she shocked me by getting together with several other
wonderful folks and getting this online petition going (you can still see this <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bS25YXzG2HCgRX_uVaOtSr8XxxY_9Sk9XESMEpOZamE/edit?pli=1#gid=0" target="_blank">here</a>).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I think anyone with a lick of business sense
would put their current project plans on hold and get to it! I had the prototype at Breyerfest at my
booth.. but I had planned to be done by the end of Aug and then I got a rotator
cuff injury.. then mad things to catch up on after that into a full schedule of
Sept.. Oct got weird and while I was working on her here & there I decided
to really slow down and try to get her as precise as possible. Personally I think she is a bit more detailed
that the original Hazel in some ways. I
hope folks will love her EVERY bit as much!</span></span></span></div>
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PS Whoops! Forgot about the post in belly bit... I did that 1) for her safety in shipping to the scanning people. She was glued to the base and I didn't want her to break off. 2) Then there was the 3D printing stage. They break at that stage (or get rejected by quality control as being too breakable)... and so that helped there too.. then 3) my OWN man handling wasn't so nice in a lot of that sanding. I didn't cut that post out until the last couple of weeks finishing her up! Castings will be attached to the base too but there will be wires unless they become really problematic. Even if they were, the manhandling of prepping and painting still wouldn't be as rough as the all over sanding for months I did. Don't worry! But do be gentle - she is wee, despite how mighty she might look! ;)Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-48087157616840345072015-10-15T15:49:00.003-07:002015-10-18T07:35:29.067-07:00Remember that time I forgot where I parked for 3 days?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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First off, this is a very long story about how I did
something truly dumb and spent 51 hours trying to figure out a solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re looking to make me the hero here I
am not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the name of art I did
something majorly boneheaded,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>forgot to
make note of an address and found myself wandering DC for 3 days, 1.5 by foot,
checking into 51 parking garages, going down into the bowels of some of those multiple times, until I couldn’t
walk further.</div>
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Today I’m forced to sit, nurse my wounds and reflect <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about how amazingly lucky I am simply to be
sitting right where I’m at with only minor things that will heal fast. I’m
awash with so much gratitude over my blessings, far too many to ever count . <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This weeks’ conclusion could have been so much
worse than some minor injury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even 3
years ago I would have had a very very bad time without owning the minor miracles
like GPS and messaging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But mostly my
blessings are in the knowledge I have friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Friends who have infinite patience and more sense than I.</div>
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So I lost not a car really so much as a parking garage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ironically in the end it was exactly where I
thought I left it… but everything that was striking to me about the entrance
changed (so I still believe) in 2 hours while I “popped over” to visit the
Smithsonian Museum (SAAM) in DC before going to have dinner with my friend
Eleanor (lots of folks reading this know Eleanor Harvey but I must tell you, the
woman is a saint and her family is amazingly welcoming.).</div>
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I was coming back Mon from CT (2 funerals).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to clear my mind (ala not try to
drive 12hrs crying), and arranged for something more <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>inspiring on my way home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband and I generally do science
museums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t spend enough time as an
artist looking at other art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially
not art of other generas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes you
stale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ANYHOW, so without him on this
drive I realized I should visit an art museum on my way back.. DC/Eleanor’s
seemed like fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to Columbus day
however Eleanor wasn’t working at the museum after all but she’s just a few
minutes away across the bridge really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I decided to try for both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
like to stretch my legs on these long drives with a touristy stop where, if
possible, I can walk a little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Irony.</div>
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So I get there, traffic through NYC wasn’t bad but there
were some uglies on the 1-95 coming in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>DC drivers actually seemed vastly less aggressive than some I’d seen
this past weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I do a loop and
basically am not finding on street parking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are garages everywhere with “Full” signs so when I started my
second pass I zipped into the first one I came across that still looked
open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon entering I am struck by the
yellow striped pavement walkways and construction crewmen going in and out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe this wasn’t a figment of my
imagination (lots of questioning my imagination to come – as an artist I can be
pretty stubborn about inaccurate things and have to learn to self-check)..the
reason I think so is because as I got my ticket (after being swallowed in) I
had to wait to keep driving while these guys walked in front of my across this
crazy yellow striping following this “sidewalk” made of what sure seemed like normal
painted lines on the pavement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
distinctly remember thinking “omg I hope I don’t have to walk out in this
tunnel up this way! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cars were parked
up the tunnel (days later I learned they were not in parking spaces but
probably the construction crew’s or holiday overflow).</div>
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My absolutely idiotic mistake was a very conscious decision
to put the ticket on the car’s console rather than in my pocket. I’m always
losing things out of my pockets or forgetting they are on my person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyhow, so my point there is, justification
of the yellow line thing aside please know I made a really stupid move.</div>
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After that I at least did something sort of right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got out and made huge note of the signage
and where I parked (second level/P2).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Strange lines on the floor lead in a different direction to the elevator
(picture no parking lines in front of a retail store and the lettering
within).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went off to the elevator but
again I looked back to see my car so when I returned via elevator I could
simple step out and find it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
parked in a lot of garages in New Haven and Hartford CT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boston a bit too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try to stay out of NYC with cars tho.
;)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyhow, I was really dismayed to note
at that point that the rental’s license plate ended in 666.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not kidding. </div>
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So the elevator isn’t right there, it’s down a warren of
hall/passage ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I come out,
from this weird 2 sided elevator (you go in one side but emerge from the other)…
I am on a totally different street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Again I make note of all my surroundings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take out my GPS now that I’m out and plug
that in too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I’m looking at a map
showing my way.</div>
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Now here is a key point;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know from my GPS the shape of my path to the garage building at least,
but we all know these things sometimes can be the mirror of what you thought,
lefts being rights etc..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GPS was popping
in and out so the map did try to recalculate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most disconcerting to me was that the street I emerged from was nothing
like the one I entered (on the other side I’d assumed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- and correctly).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was bland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That said, all of these details started to become frighteningly
questionable in the subsequent hours and sadly, yes.. days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why I’m writing this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a creative mind I can self-doubt my
internal visual narrative account with the best of them.</div>
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Meanwhile, a Stephen King worthy transformation was
happening back on the other side of the building where I came in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those lines came up (I still believe)..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may have been rolled out mats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the very least though all the vehicles
parked at the first bend in this garage also disappeared leaving unlined
pavement and a wall mural I previously hadn’t seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, the entire appearance of the garage
changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it all was in my head, it’s
possible I suppose but it’s the only subterranean garage I’d driven into in
some 10 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won’t deny I am
creative for a living – also go watch some documentaries on how people invent
fictitious details innocently all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anyhow, bottom line?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The garage
entrance changed from what I”d seen in my head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I still believe this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Also, the building from which I emerged did not have any
signage about anything really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just
#s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yep (!) I should have taken
those down so another poor decision.</div>
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At any rate, having my bearings, seeing that I’m about 2
blocks down and 3 over, I go up, make a right turn and march on over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do a quickie spin through (Kooning’s exhibit
really was fascinating & I probably spent the most time there being
intrigued by trying to guess her relationship to subjects based on her varied
approaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of inspirations
everywhere, glad I did it).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I
went out and returned the way I came.</div>
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So I went back and dropped down 2 blocks, and was dismayed
to see I didn’t see my yellow stripped “sidewalk” (no really that’s what they
call them in these) garage. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I try
another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And circle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And start to recross various paths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My mouth starts to get extremely dry. In short order I’ve frantically
started to peek into several blocks. It’s been an hour now and my feet are
getting sore from walking down into the mouth of several of these to see if the
lines start up just out of sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Recognizing that I’m in trouble I return to the museum and retrace my
paths more carefully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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There are many things that stood out upon my approach;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the metro escalator entrance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I knew I was that far down when I
approached and that my approach was straight from there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I check my GPS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phone has been squirrelly lately and history
won’t stay on now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, I can see the
streets but now I’m having a physical reaction of dread wash over me and it is
clouding my thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m wondering if I
maybe made a left instead of a right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once you get turned around you really start doubting everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People also ask you things over and over,
well meaning and honestly very sensible first questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However after so many times of this it
becomes alarming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the sun is
setting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And garage doors are closing.</div>
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I’m talking to attendants and explaining that it turned left
and the stripped sidewalk lines were on the right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The couple of garages (there were over 50
that I checked in the end btw over the next few days) that matched that
perfectly though were valet only and I’d definitely had a machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew no human was around because I asked a
man walking in the garage where I paid when I was done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Details like that the ticket machine the arm
bent start to come back to me too.</div>
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Some people when you are lost will give you very unhelpful
information too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example more than a
few of the people I asked (and had a language barrier with), did not understand
me maybe saying “do you have a level ‘P2’ and may I check it).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They looked confused and said “no” instead
of saying they didn’t understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
later learned that yes, they did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just
fyi fellow traveler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Anyways, so now it’s quite late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m dying of thirst and I call Eleanor in
mortification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She comes over and
suggests we drive from entrance to likely ones and I get out and peek
down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The challenge here is that the 1
way streets do not let her fully retrace my footpath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I want to say here that I believe I went to the entrance of
my actual garage many times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I’d only
not been so extremely certain of those stripes and realized something may have
been blocking the mural over the holiday rush.. I might have struggled with walking
down more steep ramps into what became P2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(There wasn’t a P1 that I saw when I found it… and yes, I found it or I
wouldn’t be able to talk about it).</div>
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Anyhow, so well after dark I am at a loss. I really feel
that googling maps/street views would help me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ultimately they did btw but panic is a funny thing. I’d bought myself at
least 1 bottle of water but knew by how it didn’t take away the dry mouth that
I was in panic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cognizance of panic however
doesn’t always resolve it. Quote Douglas Adams all you like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing freaks me out like knowing I did
something profoundly dumb I can’t undo easily now.</div>
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So Eleanor seeing that I’m like a panicked animal probably
decides that maybe dinner and wine would help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Man, if ever a time when drinking might help! (I don’t drink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit
sniffing glue.).. anyhow, so food fuel does at least help some, I was a little
shaky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However I learned from roadside
assistance that they deactivated the OnStar in their rentals (that’s not
entirely true though I learned Tues afternoon).</div>
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I’m feeling like a horrible guest because my stomach is in
knots and I can’t even eat most of what is in front of me even though they are
wonderful cooks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffice to say despite
my checking out half mentally Eleanor was great fun to talk to (as always!)
and a great host.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really wish I’d
skipped the museum and gone straight over there– lol!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great inspirations aside..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and then I tried to sleep in this lovely
guest room on the softest coziest bed and didn’t much of course Monday night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I did at least Tues night after I gave in.)</div>
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Armed with street maps she drops me off Tues am at where I’d
started out from the museum (where I had my bearings).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By then (after google mapping comparisons), I’m
really quite sure it’s in this spot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
it probably was.. but I only went down one ramp before going “gosh golly gee
willickers [more confabulation ;) if you can’t guess] the parking starts a lot
deeper in than the one I was in…”..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>anyhow, fresh start on Tues with spare shoes (that soon became too small
due to blisters ballooning), and water food and such.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was supposed to be a very brief “ah ha!”
turned grim by noonish. In fact I think I saw 2 people I was pretty sure I knew
(who can know at this point though if I’m not imagining that too!) but at that
point I was frazzled, smelly and limping and completely unsocial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did chat with Lesli Kathman about some ads
and then admitted my predicament while I was charging my phone and waiting for
callbacks from garage owners and the rental agency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By 1, after 5 or 24 hours in, I’d given up
much hope and called Enterprise and asked what happened if I abandoned a
car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No small part of my terror was
knowing that garages don’t tow out cars for months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hoping to get the biggest fees possible. </div>
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OnStar CAN be activated if they get a police report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a slim chance signal will be very
precise in a garage but some might be readable and that might at least give me
a smaller radius to a few blocks (verses 20).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eleanor is now away from home but her family is there so I’m still not “homeless”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should have cried though or something to
the officer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was torture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing he said was jogging my memory and he
wouldn’t even let me show him on the map the area I was 100% certain I’d walked
down when I first came in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then got a
lecture about all that was happening in the area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly if he’s reading this;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just say you won’t write a report and go help
the people in violent situations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sitting there being driven around I could tell dire things were
happening to people far more serious than what I was needing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, txting enterprise manager she is
giving me tips saying he “has to” and such.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Btw, a foot officer later told me he really should have done the report
too – that was a totally wasteful hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anyone finding themselves having no luck with 911 this way, I guess the
key is to simply freak out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I freak out
very quietly I guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Foot patrolman
also said to “be less honest” and simply leave it at being scared (true!) and
lost (true again).</div>
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The human interactions were fascinating,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I honestly found so many people (save for the
call responding officer) to be concerned and sympathetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really felt like people were a lot nicer
than in many cities I’ve been in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
the homeless that I kept passing were nodding at me in sympathy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was pretty happy to have some food for one
at least.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s an interesting thing when
you are down and out, I recommend it whenever possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Share or give away what you have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially if you really don’t need it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m not being mystical here, so regardless of your faith or lack of; it’s
about empowering yourself to admit you still have more left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a LOT still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A place to stay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An exit strategy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And (while ok, granted I had a death grip on
it), a purse and phone and thus LOTS of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I knew a few passwords and phone numbers
by heart should I lose those too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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There was a sign I really took to heart hanging from one
church to “walk humbly” that lead to a great deal of introspection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hindered as I was limping around (mostly just
walking like I was on my tippie toes… picture me tip toeing around DC really)..
I was pretty aware I was hardly at rock bottom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve had less and there is ALWAYS lower to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never ask in exasperation what else could
happen – hahaha! ;)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But truthfully I had
compartmentalized a lot of emotions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
fear was oddly gone with the knowledge that the insurance covered forgetting
where you parked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The funerals and
another death I learned of Monday night (Jim West) are going to slam me
eventually (although I did grieve a lot earlier for my aunt and uncle but not
yet for Jim).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s intriguing to
understand that survival does put grief on the back burner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t ever judge someone for seeming cold I
guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I probably didn’t seem “cold” to
anyone but I felt odd for not bursting into tears at the thought of various memories.</div>
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Anyhow, more digression… (sitting here typing this safe
& sound with my feet up and not much to do but let the blisters drain) so Tuesday
night I could not walk any further.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
just rechecked the x’s on my map and I had walked up to over 50 parking
garages, and down the first level or two of several.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Into the elevators of many others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So having no new places to check I went into
Macys (in agonizing lurching steps probably).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was relieved at least to have a text from the rental manager that I
wasn’t going to have to pay for a car for my idiotic mistake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt safe to spend a little ;) and bought
some amazingly loose and padded socks and the biggest sneakers they had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Limped over to the metro and figured that
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Got on over to meet up with Eleanor’s
husband and I shamefully hide in the guest room and update my husband on the day and send gross text pictures of my feet (blisters is not right, the whole heel was/is a blister... .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
unbelievably grateful to be able to wash my outfit, you cannot imagine.</div>
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My plan on Wed am was to get Enterprise to send me a car to
take home … oddly they weren’t willing (did you laugh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought it was funny too).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyhow, they still needed a police report to
get that rolling or something. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another
company was my only option.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or ask a
friend I had who lived 4hrs away but came to DC area all the time on weekends
(Maggie Bennett!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well then I get a
call from Oakes… hubby can’t take this anymore and is planning on renting
something small enough to drive through garages (we have trucks).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This option horrifies me though, he hates
city traffic and DC is exceptional there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Especially driving in and getting to Eleanor’s house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he doesn’t own a GPS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re old school farmers ok?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really… this is not good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Losing my husband to a traffic accident is
not how I wanted this story to end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I
beg him to wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Call Maggie and she’s
like out the door before I can finish the story nearly.</div>
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I now have 4 hrs to sit and google earth some more and think
about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maggie likes his idea though
too, and so did I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These garages are
steep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The blisters-sacks on my heel
bottoms mostly stem from walking down slope after slope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t do steep well in any shoe (knees normally).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anyhow, so I went into each enough to be sure they didn’t have the
stripey “to elevator” on the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
but one at least.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clearly!</div>
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So sitting there with google earth street view peg man I
start dropping him on one side of the buildings and the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking again for a very generic (no obvious business store fronts) as the street view
upon exit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Despite my self doubt I really thought I was sure of that too. It was so</span>mething I just couldn’t easily do
in cars or on foot (lots of 1 way streets made it impossible to fully circle the buildings).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I came up with 5
very likely ones and prioritized them by what I’d assumed my path was at
first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really clung to that.</div>
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Maggie shows up bright and eager.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So refreshing! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly I just love having people younger or
more positive (or both!) than me around for my sanity really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>:D<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s
raring to go so off we go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right around
the same time of day I’d started looking 2 days earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wed afternoon has the same light as Monday
too… although Monday there was some overcast clouds at times.</div>
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It was the second garage on my list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To add to any uncertainty I might have had (at
that point though I was willing to happily believe I’d made up lines on the
floor despite this whole biz of workers with a ladder I’d had ot maneuver and
pause around).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We go in, and poof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had one detail of where I’d parked wrong –
I’d thought round columns but they were square.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Same design/colors etc though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
mind is a HORRIBLE trickster though and sadly as an artist I wish I could be eidetic<i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>and not need to check and recheck so
much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it probably makes for more
accuracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tell people I have mild propagnesia
but possibly this proves <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just going
senile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows. ;)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stay tuned for some far out art in the future?
:D</div>
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I joke but it really was just that anticlimactic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When something isn’t working try a different
tactic. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Self doubt is a crappy
thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Traveling alone can get scary
fast. &<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m unbelievably grateful
for all I have;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the wonderful friends
and simply that humans are on the whole just really basically good at heart. Thanking
Maggie and Eleanor profusely isn’t enough. Very lucky today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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One of these days I’m going to look into if there is such a
thing as roll out walkway stripes for construction workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t let that go.<br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[edit to add in that I looked it up later on Thurs, yep... there are a # of types. The right side pic here shows what I saw: <a href="http://www.colebrothers.com/tempstripe/">http://www.colebrothers.com/tempstripe/</a> ] </span></span></div>
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Today I’m ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
crutches for a bit with pads on feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Yes (in case you are wondering) I really spent under 2hrs in
the actual museum and no, I’m not sure I’ll go back despite being quite expert
now on these streets and how they run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-605637657178694952015-08-13T09:32:00.000-07:002015-08-13T10:48:09.848-07:00Happier w/him (months later), mini Hazel becoming a "thing"! & Silly # of updates here.. <br />
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<b>Catch up time!!! </b>So very much has happened since the spring. Quickly, Tetradrachm man here has gone back to the chopping block and had a bunch of revisions. I honestly haven't been working TOO hard on him. <br />
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I'm THRILLED with my changes to Tetradrachm in accordance
with what I feel are the ox-head characteristics of the different
orientation of the parasphenoid bone... shall we just say simply the
"ancient Roman" look to be less intimidating sounding? ;)<br />
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I've been painting a storm, (more pics in a sec) and also now have mini Hazel ahead in line "to be<br />
completed" soon.<br />
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Mini Hazel wasn't really on my radar but an old friend started poking me to scan the big girl and print a mini-me version. I said "honestly these days though it seems like sales are a fraction of what they used to be and I'd need like at LEAST 150 orders to be sure I made a profit to cover the month of sanding/detailing AND the thousands (just shy of 2K anyhow) it costs to scan, print and mold and mold again.". Well I looked into the price of scanning and printing and it went down a few hundred dollars ... and she suddenly tags me on FB and says "look at this spreadsheet of people I have signed up for one.. or two or three or four". Well THAT blew mind mind eh? Mini Hazel wasn't even a "thing".<br />
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Sooooo I contacted the company for the scanning and shipped her out. A few weeks later I had a print back from Shapeways. It's not NEARLY so simple. <a href="http://www.kellys-studio.com/"> Kelly Sealy of http://www.kellys-studio.com/ </a>had to help me out because the scan I got was too complicated but that is a long story. Suffice to say Kelly rocks! :D<br />
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So here we are. I've got a mini Hazel going... a big long list for her (over 200) that get first dibs (if you want in on this sort of thing in the future please join one of my 2 mailing list types here <a href="http://www.artbymorgen.com/contact.htm">http://www.artbymorgen.com/contact.htm</a> ..!) :) I expect mini Hazel to be offered to the "general public" (not that list but the others who never heard/demanded me to make her - lol!).. probably this winter.<br />
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Aaaaand I just wrapped up this gal after .. well 5 years! You can read at the bottom of her page on how she got rolling. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made the first production mold myself so I could have mini army of them to sell at Breyerfest. They are all gone though and the second mold is being made by Mountain View Studios professionally casting the rest. It's too much work for me!</td></tr>
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I've got some 3 painted horses still wrapping up... and here are several that are wrapped up/sold...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PROBABLY going to wrap up this fall.. I shared an "intended auction schedule" with my mailing lists too! There are 2 other horses coming soon too not shown..</td></tr>
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In a few weeks I'm teaching another week long AAEA Workshop at the KHP (still time to sign up!!) :) <br />
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand because the Ranch Mare and Quartermiester started and ended around this time last year I have piles and piles of resins shipping out making life complicated.<br />
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand then there is the special shipment here of my cold cast bronze Quartermeister to the Society of Animal Artist's show that I"m seriously honored to be included in for a second time. It's not a small feat. It took me applying 2x to get accepted into the organization. Every work they select is some of the best for it's style/subject that I've seen. Cannot say how much I'm honored. & Please check out the SAA previous exhibitions online here (pdfs) - amazing work. I cannot wait to see this year's book! <a href="http://societyofanimalartists.com/exhibits.html">http://societyofanimalartists.com/exhibits.html </a><br />
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And that's the long & short of it. Spring -> Summer. There ya have it. :)<br />
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Oh, (checking and I guess I didn't share this here yet - like HUGE doh? However I'm frustrated because I was hoping she'd be here by mid-Aug and waiting is really REALLY hard...) last big thing?<br />
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--> Breyer is coming out with this horse I sculpted ANY DAY now and that is killing me a little bit... ! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bad phone photo but I got to see and hold her at Breyerfest and the details they can capture now in the plastic is absolutely amazing... if I ever do another I'm going to really go wild with those (if the sculpture permits). I cannot get over how technology has progressed!</td></tr>
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Of course again, it really is about the kids & I'm not just saying that.
I cannot wait until the less exclusive "regular run" colors like plain
bay are in stores. Because then kids can get them (well for under $200!, more like $60) and play with them and get inspired. In the end it is ALL about inspiring the next generation people.<br />
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Cheers!!Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-55500007421041895912015-03-08T18:06:00.002-07:002015-03-08T18:06:54.321-07:00Just sharing one today... :)I believe his profile will be a tad straighter than this even but he's starting to get a little personality!<br />
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<br />Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-35988129681930885122015-03-03T16:20:00.002-08:002015-03-03T16:20:57.691-08:00Fascinating Read! Well Worth $4.95!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Frankly I personally feel that just like "riding horses" of today, they probably had horses breed for running, horses breed for war (so they'd be doing more collected work..).. etc. There apparently is plenty of evidence that they bred for harness work (chariot) differently . So I will carry on with my pursuit here towards the ideal proud (pageantry) riding horses of antiquity presented in a myriad of ways over a few millenia on coins most especially. This, in my opinion, being a riding horse of a lighter nature with a rather flat yet hammer head type shaped head as opposed to the later Roman noses or the early proto-Arab that was emerging at that time too. Also a fairly young horse of 6-9years old. Horses get much heavier looking as they age, if you haven't seen this I suggest looking at racing Thoroughbreds aged 6-7 verses how they look in their teens and twenties.</div>
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So at any rate, here is where I got with my sculpt before I decided I actually needed to rework his neck pose further (below). The more ancient art I studied, the more I saw this trend of horses heads being thrown or pulled back just a bit more in a fairly defiant and excitable pose. Here we see a rider on this coin probably using a heavy hand to get this reaction but you also see it with fiesty horses without humans influencing them! High headedness was definitely a trait the leaders and warriors of a bygone era really seemed to prize.</div>
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So here he is getting his neck adjusted from T1 down. ;)</div>
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Much was done after that here so I made a quick comparison so you can see some changes more easily... the red & green lines below for example are the same color and angle from the left pic to the right picture... looking to where they start & end you can see where I've added some angles in an effort to get more tension as befits a war steed. </div>
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There are things I'm not liking much too at this point.. the neck; I've thinned & thickened it .. oscillating back and forth about this. Some works show huge exaggerations here & I'm not aiming for cartoonish... yet I believe that if a trait was emphasized in ancient art it, like a caricature, was something that stood out. It's about looking at the context of the art as well to see how much & of what nature are the exaggerations occurring.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsEisa2Kr3NkJCtsBHli9AaY0JLlFhrrW3Q0n3wdMXY0ATuKKyGpZeRcMwTlozqyYlwpCgfWsYJj0D_1UD5oC5mt4VcYkHxLu6IYjq5dd0SoSSe3VD1X8m3NT9rcyI9pzK-4qov_WZEaE/s1600/tetrad_inprog1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsEisa2Kr3NkJCtsBHli9AaY0JLlFhrrW3Q0n3wdMXY0ATuKKyGpZeRcMwTlozqyYlwpCgfWsYJj0D_1UD5oC5mt4VcYkHxLu6IYjq5dd0SoSSe3VD1X8m3NT9rcyI9pzK-4qov_WZEaE/s1600/tetrad_inprog1.jpg" height="291" width="320" /></a>I have more waxing philosophical on this matter but less time right now & I'd much rather pull out some excerpts and art again to discuss. Meanwhile, the headshots here shows something else I've been dancing around. I posted this to FB today about the white skull showing through: <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">True
confession: I've only done the skull method for whole horses using my
Sculpey or apoxie sculpt close-to-the-clay-colored skulls outside of
classroom practice & busts. I'm not liking white as a background
color for getting details on & finishing this. It's one thing to
smear apoxie sculpt across white resin or foam (especially in the larger
1:6 scale busts that works ok).. but this 1:9 white<span class="text_exposed_show">
resin to red clay contrast is too distracting to me. I may peel off
the clay & paint the white resin a similar color. Normally with
sculpy I wouldn't do that - it can't be baked then! But I can here since
I'm casting the prototype normally. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">Later I added: </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span data-reactid=".5d.1:3:1:$comment10152871389159652_10152871642879652:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".5d.1:3:1:$comment10152871389159652_10152871642879652:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".5d.1:3:1:$comment10152871389159652_10152871642879652:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".5d.1:3:1:$comment10152871389159652_10152871642879652:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Btw, this reads like I've done more sculpy horses than I have... only like.. 4 I think to completion now. <span class="emoticon emoticon_smile" title=":)"></span> I only started playing with it seriously last year.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">Anyhow, after posting that this morning I painted the white exposed areas of the skull that will probably be "bone" right up until the end & am much happier with trying to work on the face now!</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2u8VkOEAhnUtQfzxjABiLujaUfSTJiU5zuwb2RMxlL2KDmsGqezi_955u1SEMvYUPcA5lddHyHs8YohgIijm8Ka65bOWgfdqPmHipnacbXArEcADq68sGcd-w-he0xXdwQihyphenhyphenJ6F1cEE/s1600/tetrad_inprog3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2u8VkOEAhnUtQfzxjABiLujaUfSTJiU5zuwb2RMxlL2KDmsGqezi_955u1SEMvYUPcA5lddHyHs8YohgIijm8Ka65bOWgfdqPmHipnacbXArEcADq68sGcd-w-he0xXdwQihyphenhyphenJ6F1cEE/s1600/tetrad_inprog3.jpg" height="170" width="200" /></a><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">I have a long ways to go still. I'm quite unhappy with this right/off side. So many thoughts but I'll let it gel for a while. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">Anyhow, so there ya go. I was interrupted too many times but I will very much try to save some passage quotes to share from that book in upcoming posts. In the meantime, it's available on Amazon I see! I cannot vouche for which editions might contain all the conjecture & other works of the era though that talk about hoof shapes, and mane trimming styles. Still, the one I show above does so check it out if you're into this sort of thing! :D</span></span></span><br />
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It's time for an update... I did a little hair transplant.. and some research given clues and tips people have sent me. I am by NO MEANS feeling expert enough to even paraphrase what I've learned to date. However I have learned there are a couple of breeds that could be represented over many millenia that these artworks were being created. They were used for chariots, racing and generally cherished as fine horses. While different breeds may be being discussed, I came across frequent reference to horns (aka "frontal bosses"). Today only one breed of horse is still known to have these, the Moyle. That said, Thoroughbreds sometimes display them apparently... google all of that to learn/see more, the one horse who's photographs show it best is "Riddle" I believe?</div>
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So...art from this era shows some obvious stylization but then again, you do see some themes no matter the style. The horse I am narrowing down my "ideal" towards seems to be the "<span class="st"> Nisaean horse" which was distributed by conquerors apparently over the millennia. There really haven't been most breeds in modern times for that long so I'm not sure the word "breed" is even accurate?</span></div>
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Once I was happy iwth this I could address the ears. I really thought I'd be going with a slight "relaxed" out to the sides look. However when I pointed them back it really emphasized the look I'm used to seeing, moreso than ears forward. It was a tough call but I see him parading into a situation where he needs a bit of attitude to win.<br />
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From here it's more & more becoming a matter of finding robust horses, from Arabians to Friesians... and of course tons of this 2-4 thousand year old art to ponder. Below you can see how just inside the tuber ischiem bones of the hip there is nothing yet (hollow thighs, how we all should be so lucky!) ;).<br />
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Maybe you can also see I am attaching the tail via a strand to the back of the hock. This is really a HUGE help in preventing shipping breaks. Plus people working on the horse in the future will have a more stable cup handle to hold on while they paint.<br />
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Backside is starting ot get some flesh too. I had to push the whole left leg under. After this extremely nerve wracking similar adjustment to my Ranch Mare sculpture, where I had to do this with a hammer & having her in a vice.. I am happy to use less strong wire for this guy. He might not stand reliably without his belly post until I cast him, but that's fine. There *IS* such a thing as being over-horsed in sculpture! ;)<br />
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I feel like it should be very very obvious he's still pretty rough in these stages, although many are already asking how soon he'll be done. So the answer there is not-so soon just yet. I've got a lot on my plate right now & I'm just allowing myself a couple of hours a day to actually DO art. :D I do want him to progress though as he's been floating around in my head for many many years now! I hope to ultimately have him standing on a thin metal base via magnets in the feet (I really find bases so frustrating & for once at least this one has two feet squarely on the floor!). Other that that... so much is up in the air. But isn't he a charmer!?! :D Having fun over here at least!<br />
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Ever since I stumbled across this one particular Scythian horse sculpture (sorry but I can't find it anymore!) have I been getting this hankering to do a chariot horse or one similar to what you see on the Greek and Roman reliefs and statues that still survive today. These are different eras and the horses are each a bit different in significant ways (build and use), so I spent more time trying to find a theme that fit what I was picturing.<br />
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First I spent a great deal of time <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=amphora+horse&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=zwbhVISfGeaMsQSdkYGoBA&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=1600&bih=711">studying greek amphoras</a> (click that link to see a really inspiring array of those!)<br />
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Then I began stumbling across coins. Coins of all sorts of eras, with a similar theme. Similar to that of conquerors mounted on steeds.<br />
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I have more to say on the subject but I want to do this in stages with pictures for now! I will start with where I'm at after a day or so of work (not a full day yet either). ;) I've gotten a ton of new sculpting media and toys lately and have been tinkering all over the place with old abandoned sculptures (most recently I FB shared a # of the Friesian foal). This guy I'm more motivated to bring to life this spring (hopefully by summer!). With a great deal of other things on my plate he is taking a backburner. That said, I'm also forcing myself to sculpt for at least 1-2hrs a day (the duration of a tv show).. so that I don't get 'bookeeping burnout' where I realize I've gone weeks without sculpting.<br />
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So first quickly to see what I was getting jazzed about... here are some wikimedia commons tetradrachms. <br />
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Even better (but I"m unsure of copyrights so I will only link) would be to click here to see the STAGGERING commonality of this theme: THIS <a href="http://rosenblumcoins.com/files/img/39e/087.jpg">http://rosenblumcoins.com/files/img/39e/087.jpg </a>is echoed thousands of different ways over the centuries as seen by a general search for "horse + ancient +coin"<br />
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My fella is pretty pretty thin still but I am adding slowly. I want him more of the racing type. Robust but long legged and regal. Not a heavy northern war horse but a light fast horse. That's enough babble for now (over a sculpture I've hardly started!). ;) Enjoy;<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I start with a typical armature wire frame. Fwiw, my standard answer on how-to do these is now to google or youtube this because we all tend to really start out the same here. I am trying out a PVC pipe this time instead of brass plumbing pipes. You can pop the sculpture on & off easier and spin it around more readily as well. Nevermind in the end if you create a block mold. Detaching from the flange is a cinch! It has not been a cinch for me with the regular threaded metal piping</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As you can see I fill out slowly. I pared off a tiny bit more on the hip bones there since this one. Also, I used the super hard at room temp Chevant NSP Hard brown here. It's almost as firm as a wax candle to give you and idea of it's firmness rating. Very heavily wax based. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slowly building up all around I still leave him "lean". In teaching sculpting the hardest part for me personally is to get folks to tone down in the adding on/build up. Its sooo easy to get out of proportion in tough ways fast like this. He still looks goofy lean but making him more "robust" will be easier if I don't fill in my negative spaces so there's more animation.</td></tr>
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Not bad for a start (I'm not complimenting myself, I feel like a lot came together fast here!). I am dabbling with nick naming this fella Tetrad. I fear that Tetris , while fun, is (a) very Russian and (b) very very copyrighted. ;) I'll try to rememeber to share this one more frequently here as it's a lot easier to document the evolution! :D<br />
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Wrapping up the weekend this is where I'm leaving off. Not sure if "ommph" being added. I plan other things to happen before he's done so I'll have some time to think on this. No rush! He's sat around in my head for long enough! ;)<br />
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Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-73763216137042632382015-02-02T15:49:00.000-08:002015-02-02T16:29:32.104-08:00So Very Very Overdue!Last post was from May 2014.. what has gone on since then? Wow! Where to start!! :D I've sculpted 3 traditional sized horses since this last posting - ack!!<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Long Mane Version of my "Ranch Mare" painted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sprucemtnstudioLLC?pnref=lhc">Mindy Berg</a> of <a href="http://www.sprucemtnstudio.com/">http://www.sprucemtnstudio.com/</a></span></i></div>
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Quick catch up in reverse order I suppose...<br />
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Currently just picked up a huge # of resins under time payments. While visiting the Will & Sheri (my casters) I also was gifted a stamp of my logo which will allow me to imprint my name on new sculptures instead of etching it in (poorly!). ;) I have been meaning to get something like this, many thanks to Will Rhodes of MVS for the most cool laser cut tool!<br />
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Going back in time a bit, I was picking up a bunch of timepayment horses from this past year. Doing year long timepayments and 6 month editions means I can get quite the backlog of horses being paid off!<br />
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Here lies some 40 Quartermeister resins (a huge # are due to be paid off these next two weeks via the neat new PayPal autopay feature). And more than 20 more of my newest release (well that is being sold by me); my new Ranch Mare (see her in bay, photo above, or her sales page here <a href="http://www.artbymorgen.com/ranch_mare.htm">http://www.artbymorgen.com/ranch_mare.htm</a> ). She is still available until April 7th.<br />
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I've finished off a # of things since last May as I said.. some commercial work, one of which was revealed by Breyer this past Nov & Dec - at least as an announcement that I will be one of the 3 sculptors they release this year for their Premier Club. They haven't shared the photos of the other two, just the first release <a href="https://www.facebook.com/artbymorgen/photos/pb.300014514651.-2207520000.1422917274./10152577949819652/?type=3&src=https%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net%2Fhphotos-ak-xap1%2Ft31.0-8%2F10668930_10152577949819652_3688822018997119811_o.jpg&smallsrc=https%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net%2Fhphotos-ak-xap1%2Fv%2Ft1.0-9%2F1620847_10152577949819652_3688822018997119811_n.jpg%3Foh%3Da7f4f2fbb78bd4ba8dcc571613cdd26b%26oe%3D5562D286%26__gda__%3D1432595135_e41568512505a041e60282c1a3278819&size=1000%2C400&fbid=10152577949819652">(a mare & foal by the uber talented Brigette Eberl</a>). They also did share this teaser photo/tidbit (painted by Carol Williams) which of course I cannot confirm nor deny as being my sculpture, however I've really gotten a huge kick out of folks' conjecture about this photo... <br />
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So there is that news (which is to say.. not much so far but something to look forward to later in the year!) :D I'm SO excited I can't tell you btw. People who know me know it's been my lifelong sculpting ambition to be "Rich Ruddish" essentially and get the chance to inspire future generations myself. It's still quite surreal to be here having accomplished one and now a second! I'm very much a firm believer that children need GOOD art too. I know as a kid I coveted the more realistic horses and found myself very inspired by big sculptures. My inner child is very much bathed in warm fuzzies to be able to give my heart and soul to these projects!<br />
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This past winter I made a new medallion and sculpture of one of our dogs for my husband. :) Both of these I hope to sell more of quite soon. It's primarily that I've been working on another couple of projects I hope to share soon too. The medallion thwarted me a little in casting and had a fair # of pin holes so I only sold some 6 or so on a Dec Outlet webpage sale. I plan to do these again (and I've been selling 2nds). <br />
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The dog mold was not so successful & broke after a couple of castings. Hey, this is why I normally turn to professionals for these! ;) Anyhow, I do hope to do more of these soon. I will be using lighter blocks of wood, not marble though for shipping safety!<br />
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Ok.. lets see. So that brings me back to fall now. (Wow, so much still to cover!).. I had the AAEA Fall Show and then I taught my workshop the following week. I don't have too many photos from that but I have these two:<br />
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We tried to cover a lot this time around on a variety of subjects. I plan to focus the next workshop a tad differently as the 2 part hardening clay media was so foreign to half the class! :) Food for thought, I haven't outlined this year's class yet / committed to anything.</div>
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Speaking of committed though, I did commit to making a Civil War piece for the AAEA show in Oct and so I came up with this (it's very big!) bas relief;<br />
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And before that I was working frantically on my Ranch Mare who was introduced October 7th (for a 6 month limited time edition).<br />
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Prior to this there was Breyerfest, sales were great. It wore me out. Exciting highlights there of relevance were that the roan color auction mold (one of a kind) Wyatt sold for $4300! I was floored & although I was standing there I couldn't keep track of who was bidding (I never can with auctions). Anyhow, how neat! This year they have already announced he will be this very neat buckskin appaloosa, but only as a "Sunday" raffle model ( <a href="http://www.breyerhorses.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=6975">http://www.breyerhorses.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=6975</a> ). Thus I just hope I get to see on up close. Those are hard to win too! :D The little kid in ME is getting impatient to see him in a regular run color - lol! Soon I guess. I have some kids I'd like to gift some to but so far they've been a bit out of kid price ranges, soon I'm sure though.<br />
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MEANWHILE, well.. that nearly brings me back to May since around that time I was pretty much focused on the Breyer sculpture for 2015 (which I can't share until later this year! torture!!!). <br />
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I did do some other small things but not all came to fruition. Like these skulls were fun to make;<br />
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But they overall turned out to be a hair too large for most 1:9 scale sculptures. I do 1:9 scale to 16.3hh-17.2hh warmbloods. I need to STOP and do 1:9 to 15hh horses. ;) There have been some exceptions but of course they were all pony sized (Kipling obviously but also Maxixe and Johann were 14-14.2hh range 1:9 scale works). Anyhow, POINT is that these skulls are a bit large. I personally don't mind because it's still easier to file them down all around to have something symmetrical to start with. Some of us need all the help we can get keeping things symmetrical! (There is my favorite contour too btw for that as well - available at any Lowes or home supply store). ;)<br />
With that, I will leave you with this head study, made using a (different) Super Sculpy firm.<br />
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Hopefully we're all (mostly anyhow) caught up now!<br />
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<br />Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-76359453913504215662014-05-13T20:53:00.000-07:002014-05-14T06:10:40.446-07:00Fun 'lil Tutorial; making a tiny loop toolOk, well I had recently coveted some of these a friend had gotten.. then I realized (sad but true story) that "wait a minute, I do have some of those!"... and I wanted them.. and I spent a GOOD deal of time (half a day) scrounging around and realized I just cannot find a lot of things since I've moved.<br />
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Anyhow, this prompted me to make some quick and dirty ones to use for the day. Aaaaaaand for once I remembered to pull out the camera during this and document/share.<br />
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Now please note that ideally you can use even thinner wire. Another thing I can't seem to find at the moment (argh eh?!!!). As such, it gave me a chance to show off the filing/shaping I do sometimes with my older tools. Please note I do know the proper way to do that as well.. Actually my husband loves to sharpen kitchen knives, chisels and big tools the proper way but I love my quick and easy methods for minarettes and things encrusted with epoxies and goop.. My father always used to say that using a dull knife or a the wrong tool is how you get hurt. Sadly this is SO true. Most of my sculptures have had actual blood, sweat and tears incorporated into their creation; all generated in one session typically too. I'm far too impulsive! Which is also why you don't see a lot of tutorials here.. do as I say, not as I do. ;)<br />
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So here we go, how to make a mini loop tool. I don't like the ones they sell in hobby stores, far too big a gauge wire, and often the wire pops right out! The apoxie holding this in resolves that.<br />
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I use any means possible to get out what's left in there but this time it was tricky.. sometimes I've been lucky & everything pops out of the ferrule (metal cuff) </div>
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Get it centered and slather the epoxy into it. I used Super White Aves Apoxie Sculpt here because I have a lot of this for use with resins.. any color works of course though. Key is to try to get it mushed a little down into that ferrule with the wire.. AND within the twists of the wire so it's a secure hold. This isn't going anywhere! ;) (unless I snap the end off of course).. </div>
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Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-27313496578497485432014-04-29T16:00:00.002-07:002014-04-29T16:09:52.295-07:00Judging Clinic Report! :)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well this is a rather overdue
"Clinic Report"! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBuDIap1FiXhDOJ38ww9hsyX44fi-f9gqZj6IJrFpymXyuIHdqoT2YOcxNW7N1sFqv_ZmQci9F_A8EfpU0HyKIOvEGXrvgT8Z5_b53nnof76_BE-rNal02_fZtN-WbrR4HfQruirybLjs/s1600/DSC_5822.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBuDIap1FiXhDOJ38ww9hsyX44fi-f9gqZj6IJrFpymXyuIHdqoT2YOcxNW7N1sFqv_ZmQci9F_A8EfpU0HyKIOvEGXrvgT8Z5_b53nnof76_BE-rNal02_fZtN-WbrR4HfQruirybLjs/s1600/DSC_5822.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Earlier this
month I had the pleasure of hosting a judging clinic with guest speaker Ann
Harris! She's a veteran at this sort of
thing and was full of interesting insights on the subject of judging... having
been a judge and mentor for over 20 years!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNnmZFTqNip9t_nbMnBYR2SmFQ92U5lIyla2Xhie_mnsSWtFM9aLngD4r6zKaeDzAkSXNryu-C1K72AD_XdWFGM9qya16ju0y4BqB_XfM5P7DGCUl98dUcOnOlkNiz0keaxDsqON21VSY/s1600/DSC_0001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Ann and her husband Rob at the races the day before the clinic!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNnmZFTqNip9t_nbMnBYR2SmFQ92U5lIyla2Xhie_mnsSWtFM9aLngD4r6zKaeDzAkSXNryu-C1K72AD_XdWFGM9qya16ju0y4BqB_XfM5P7DGCUl98dUcOnOlkNiz0keaxDsqON21VSY/s1600/DSC_0001.jpg" height="320" width="214" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It would be hard to even summarize the whole 6hr clinic
in a few paragraphs.. I know a large # of folks asked for video but even with
the ones we took there's just simply too much footage to whittle down....! At some point I will hope to have
another. I'm in the process of refining
my video clips and didn't get a change to overlay some of the bone structure
but those are generally more geared to strictly teaching sculpting...
"seeing" anatomy is another matter.
Still the video clips ran & hopefully helped augment (and not
complicate!) common issues seen that were being discussed! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I must thank my neighbor Crystal who brought over the
most sweet mare I've gotten to use yet for demo purposes. She's new to Crystal's herd and had gotten in
a scuffle in the pasture the night before with an even newer horse, yet she was
calm and totally tractable while we prodded & yanked on her. Originally I'd planned to paint on her but
she was still a bit shaggy (although it was warm so she was shaggy AND
sweaty).. oddly charcoal showed up better!
Grace (the lovely mare) was at least easy to thank with carrots and
love. She definitely seemed to have a
great time! :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All the ponies judged were painstakingly picked out in
advance from the vast personal showstring of Beth Patterson. I kid you not it was really fascinating to go
over her house & come up with a HUGE (and tough!) classes of really nice work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Big thanks too here for photographer (and
sculptor/painter) ;) Maggie Bennett who really had no choice in the matter
because I'm a little pushy sometimes I guess.
She took so many photos for me it's sort of sad that I am sharing so few
here! In part I wanted many photos
though of the horse for future teaching purposes too... so perhaps the mare
Grace here will make more appearances on the blog? ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lastly I also need to mention and thank those who
traveled HUGE distances to attend - 2 gals came from all the way up by Maryland
(separately!). And just everyone for
attending & making it so much fun!!
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<span style="font-size: small;">I posted this to my FB page yesterday but <span class="userContent">apparently here I am threatening my clinic attendees with either a kick or a fist? I'm kidding of course but I really wish I could remember WHAT ON EARTH I'm talking about here.. Nicely shows how the stifle joint swings out a LOT to accomodate the rib cage but the leg here has a lot of range of motion below the hock. Here her hoof/pastern joint angles out but I know I also was talking about how they can kick a fly on their belly too! :) Well, I sure hope I mentioned that! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Discussing how nostrils can often fit in between the ears! I suppose that's a bit of a pet peeve of mine (clunky noses, I've only seen noses get larger when a horse was bitten by a snake.. & fortunately never in real life!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here I'm using halter leg placing techniques to show her patella pop in and out in the stifle joint "stay apparatus".</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">(Seriously I would love to OWN this horse for teaching -
she was totally mellow & cool with all sorts of "don't do this at
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<span style="font-size: small;">My neighbor is showing the range of motion this super patient mare has & a nice view of how the stifle moves. We did a lot of video on this subject as it seems like a big pet peeve of a lot of judges. Below is what happens with the stifle when the patella moves incorrectly! This is on a real horse in a vet diagnostic video of rupture of the peroneus tertius tendon. It's something a lot of horse sculptures show however as it's hard to figure out how that whole complex moves if you aren't looking at something in that precise position.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Here I'm showing the shoulder angle opening and closing.. & earlier the mare's owner pulled her knee under her so folks could see how much the shoulder (scapula) angle can change... Thus why it's hard to say a moving horse sculpt has a steep or level shoulder (not impossible but tricky!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I spelled Ann for the last one, CM foals (squee! The wee foals are a favorite of mine!). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And here is a random photo of a Steeplechaser with a <span class="st">Gulastra Plume from the day before! :)<i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">That's the long & short of it! :) Hope to hold another one eventually!</span></div>
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Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-60401023823859017732014-04-07T08:02:00.001-07:002014-04-07T08:03:40.560-07:00A Bit Overdue!I had a fun photo essay to share but when I came here I realized that last month the whole Quartermeister release was time consuming & the blog fell off my to-do list!<br />
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Anyhow, soooo I have that to share and also my Academy of Equine Art course details & registration is up now;<br />
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Go here to register though (I don't handle any of that); <a href="http://www.aaea.net/workshops/">http://www.aaea.net/workshops/</a><br />
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Then as I said, the Q-man is up for grabs for the next 5 months (now, he is a 6 month open edition lasting until Sept). His page is here; <a href="http://www.artbymorgen.com/quartermeister.htm">http://www.artbymorgen.com/quartermeister.htm</a><br />
and I'll leave you with a photo of him as well taken on a rather cold damp day at sunset on my porch. My misting breath was getting in the way (the south isn't always warm!) but it was the first time we'd had sun in days so I gave it a whirl!<br />
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<br />Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-89848106515722448492014-02-22T10:44:00.000-08:002014-02-22T10:45:19.049-08:00The Not-Duke Creation (The Making of Q-man)...Well I’m almost ready to open up his edition here, planning to debut him at a local show “Carolina Gold Classic” which now has 84 entrants (!!! I *know* right?!!!). That’s in under 2 weeks. His page is done/ready to view here; <a href="http://www.artbymorgen.com/quartermeister.htm">http://www.artbymorgen.com/quartermeister.htm</a><br />
BUT meeeeeanwhile, before the edition opens officially in March I want to share some in-progress on him to re-emphasize the fact that he is NOT anything like Deputed Duke! ;)<br />
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Truly tho this seems to be something I can't show enough pictures of! :) It’s so funny how many people have commented to me (even as they bought preorders I got some of these comments!) that the side by side comparisons really showed them that he’s a whole different personality/look/build and that he can do totally different things (well do ALL the classes really!). :D<br />
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Sooo here is probably the most convincing photo I hope that I completely build up all over the resin until you really didn’t have resin there anymore.<br />
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But let me back up. Here is what I did. Around 10 years ago when I sculpted Duke I wanted to make a straight trotting version. Realizing how daunting this was I tried two things; first I cast apoxie sculpt in a shell inside the Duke mold, roughly making the same thing as a resin but in parts, that I cobbled together, that’s the grey fellow on the left below, the picture just below that is where I photoshopped the head back on & made some changes before deciding "ok, let's try this again!"...<br />
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The white guy above (who a decade later became Quartermeister/the Q-man!) I started as a hacked up resin. I don’t remember what his deal was but I have to assume he was a second of some sort. Anyhow, note that the head wasn’t working out at ALL so I lobbed it off somewhere , at some point…<br />
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How I started that white (eventual Q-man) fellow was similar, I chopped a resin into a million pieces. Then I took armature foam and used it to hold the center together, then I superglued, duct taped and apoxied the rest back together like a giant Humpty Dumpty project. Somehow though it was much much larger than the resin it came from.. so the resin head just wasn’t cool. It was way too small. Anyhow, so it went over onto the other grey Duke for a while.. because he seemed more promising. For ONE SIMPLE very sad little technical reason: production cost. The longer, taller, wider (anything) a sculpture is, the more it costs to produce in resin. Also, the post office had raised the cost of shipping back then by size primarily. It had a big effect on the niche market I sell to: we all suddenly started making our sculptures smaller. To fit in a box. It sounds trivial but when you ship out 50 boxes and they cost $10 more ea time, this is a $500 new cost. At the time resin editions were 150-200 on average so several thousand dollars in savings just by opting to go a little smaller was nothing to sneeze at. Customers pay more for shipping now on average than they expected to in the past. This is a relief to sculptors who for a while were still doing postage paid editions and just paying more out of their own pockets. ANYHOW, so if you reaaaaaally wanted to know the reasons why some horses get shelved, this is it! Ironic that it has nothing to do with artistic motivations at times, but just one of “now is not the time to make something this expensive to make”. <br />
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Still, he CALLED to me.. <br />
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As I moved from home to home he caaaaalled to me until this past fall I was looking at grey passaging boy there, alongside “working trot” Duke as I called him (honestly he’s in medium trot more than working, this is a shade below when they get those snappy extensions of the extended trot…<br />
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So I began anew this fall!<br />
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I pulled that head back off of grey Duke there & cut it into pieces, resculpted ALL the boney points;<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvg9Rc6eBUjQMdb1C67Ihyb4kRdsXRdlM_JC5FGcXHJf_IDrHvJK16eVDCh_EEB5X6bfWIT78DooglfkbhC0jRIRqW1BYes8XzGEknCDjCQOYXZIhVLmhOgo_imywM6OUAMHqn6FShfhQ/s1600/inprogQMhead1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvg9Rc6eBUjQMdb1C67Ihyb4kRdsXRdlM_JC5FGcXHJf_IDrHvJK16eVDCh_EEB5X6bfWIT78DooglfkbhC0jRIRqW1BYes8XzGEknCDjCQOYXZIhVLmhOgo_imywM6OUAMHqn6FShfhQ/s1600/inprogQMhead1.jpg" height="472" width="640" /></a><br />
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I sat down with the horse itself and photographed him & started fiddling in photoshop to see what changes I planned to make;<br />
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Then after I took down/rebuilt that skull entirely (above 2 headshots).. I still had the task of balancing them out & adding character. So here we see some of how I busted out with the “contour tool” to match each side up. <br />
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Symmetry in heads is important. To some extent it’s NOT a requirement for realism HOWEVER.. humans are very preprogramed to find symmetrical bodies healthier (and therefore more attractive). It’s very weird but true. You can change the expression from side to side but I feel like those bones need to try to be as aligned as possible. And that IS SO HARD for me personally. And since I know other artists who have all sorts of tricks up their sleeves to do it as well, I have to assume other artists feel similarly; it’s a challenge that any trick helps.<br />
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Those contour tools are found at Lowes or any hardware place, or online btw. They’re not great for soft clay as the pins don’t push so smoothly. <br />
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Other tricks I like are to take a completely 100% front view & flip half of it in photoshop. I probably didn’t save any of those as my desktop is hideously cluttered at times.. with sculpture blotting tissues and things that look more gross than they are so I may just have not saved that.. if you look back to 2008 I did a post on that there though with Hazel. :)<br />
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One of the tougher things with this fellow as the shoulders. Both the hips/haunches down and the shoulders from the scapula down, were COMPLETELY cut off & then reset on using the armature foam as I said before. However it took some time to rebuild up the ribcage through the body extremities in these places. The shoulder of the front right leg for example was still too compressed looking even late into the game. So I had to cut here;<br />
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and then pull it all out again and THEN slather on more apoxie-sculpt to a new more outward moved point of shoulder (this is where the humerus meets the scapula)… and then add new muscles all over until I was happy with this here;<br />
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So that was some of the challenges of salvaging an old sculpture. Sadly like previous times I”ve done this I come to this point where I say “this would’ve been vastly faster in clay from scratch”. This time however at least I can say that waste molding clay here would have been more expensive than I’d like to consider. <br />
ANYHOW, musing about costs aside, I really think he came out vastly different and hope you can see this too without even having to hold the two side by side. Owners of Duke will NOT be disappointed & feel like they got a repeat; this is totally NOT Duke, I promise you! :)<br />
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Again, check out his final big bad self and all the comparison shots here; <a href="http://www.artbymorgen.com/quartermeister.htm">http://www.artbymorgen.com/quartermeister.htm</a><br />
Thanks for looking!<br />
<br />Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-79221396711530645112013-12-13T09:48:00.000-08:002013-12-13T09:48:05.516-08:00Must.. Share.. QUARTERMEISTER!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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It seems like the middle Friday of every month is when I
like to get around to posting here!</div>
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This month isn't much different from last..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and looking back I see that it's been 2months
since I posted - wow!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ok, well quickly,
I've gotten & shipped out most of the Pixel resins ordered to date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hoping that more arrive today actually even
though they seem to have stalled in transit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ACK!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(This is when tracking is
frustrating!). ;)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyhow, I've been so
pleased with the casters, they really outdid themselves on nice clean castings
AND super speedy turnaround time.</div>
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Since I'm so close to wrapping up my next horse (mostly
anyhow).. I am working in my head on a way to offer some incentive reward for
those who buy Pixel now & then want the next guy too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Generally I like to leave a longer time
between editions to let people recover but I'm just TOO excited about this next
guy:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quartermeister!</div>
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Here he is as of today, chilling out, getting his glamour
shot test hairdo picture here in photoshop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He's patchy looking still since I haven't primered him yet to make him
more uniform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see I haven't discussed
him on my blog so quickly;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he's a former
sculpture of mine that was half-passing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took a wireless, hollowcast resin version of
him cut into him from every direction until he was a humpty dumpty shell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was around 8 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then pieced him back together to be
trotting straight forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It required
more than just removing a hind leg for example.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I removed it & cut it at every joint nearly to change the entire
horse. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I'm done I'll show some of
the in-progress photos and a side by side comparison with the former
horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are NOT the same
anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every inch and nook and cranny
of this horse has been covered over or carved into.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven't found any points left of the
original still showing... including even tendons which all need resculpting.</div>
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Basically though it sped things up in a major way for me:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>proportioning and joint position along the
length of legs, neck etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These things
are a major time consumer in sculpting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If I took a Breyer and wittled it down to sticks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>& completely filled in every corner it
would STILL take me less time than working off my own aluminum armature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So here where I have roughly the same
muscles in place for a haunch flexed forward in this position, well WOOT!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much much less time to figure it all out
from scratch & hundreds of photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NOW I get to do ONLY the fun stuff:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>searching through photos to decide just how much fleshy flexed muscle
mass is appropriate and artistically exciting for THIS horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, it's all the fun stuff when
the body underneath is roughly worked out for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GOOD TIMES!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Now if this wasn't my own sculpture originally though, I
would have to concede that someone else's hard labor did more than half the
battle here, even if I'm putting whole new layers of epoxie over everything.
but fortunately it was my own labor from exactly a decade ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How fun to return to it and revamp every inch
with a new mindset and armed with all sorts of cumulative experiences!</div>
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And with that, I should go & run to the PO and see if
my package is here even though tracking says it's been sitting somewhere else
for several days.. and then dive back into this fun adventure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OH!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
meant to comment on the hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I plan to
do a very short "ready to braid" trim that's loose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was initially thinking I should braid him
up but truly, if the mane and forelock are lightweight and bouncing off the
body it's easy enough for people to customize. ;) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it makes him look more manly though
to have spiky hair! :D</div>
Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-77040034383303615492013-10-26T13:54:00.001-07:002013-10-26T13:54:52.894-07:00Wyatt! A Very big first for me! :)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I decided to go with what I sent out to my yahoogroup and email list the other day... there is only so much I can say here anyhow. :) But NOW I can at least share this news!
(for those who haven't heard this already I guess.. there are some here still
probably!) ;) </div>
Introducing the new action stock horse that Breyer commissioned me to sculpt
early this year (I giggle but no one seemed to wonder why Oceania was taking me
so long?) ;)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQbPescfYFmNr8CTMnIxeh-v5RcjHPDxe0W6ZJGIUERIJZZFOhJ-XnVSa0F9Z3XOCbll10W6I-6Z5oRkL4DU1bnozU9aHJliFPwS7rKajPETCcT4meA2YuOLjNvuTDxx1xFnrpk9Bq3-k/s1600/Wyatt_Right-SM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQbPescfYFmNr8CTMnIxeh-v5RcjHPDxe0W6ZJGIUERIJZZFOhJ-XnVSa0F9Z3XOCbll10W6I-6Z5oRkL4DU1bnozU9aHJliFPwS7rKajPETCcT4meA2YuOLjNvuTDxx1xFnrpk9Bq3-k/s200/Wyatt_Right-SM.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.benchmarkemail.com/c/l?u=2E19B0C&e=3C95EF&c=231AC&t=0&l=1340487&email=csLcbjeBUdBtNKv1CG33XlNnZqARidYv" target="_blank">http://www.breyerhorses.com/2014_premier</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1U2OFqz0U5KuVP5-xhiKd09v3CvvIf9TGpMJIOTveRGwU41rio5cCljDde9XvoABq_rmtUWZ1BlWZqEqnnyFMF2GgbClWhKvUkRyyv7SjHKZanDQooXjPuNWQGJ7iwdmSO4g9qCvmoxg/s1600/Wyatt_Left-SM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1U2OFqz0U5KuVP5-xhiKd09v3CvvIf9TGpMJIOTveRGwU41rio5cCljDde9XvoABq_rmtUWZ1BlWZqEqnnyFMF2GgbClWhKvUkRyyv7SjHKZanDQooXjPuNWQGJ7iwdmSO4g9qCvmoxg/s200/Wyatt_Left-SM.jpg" width="200" /></a>Truly I don't know much more than anyone else here. I am basing all of my
answers on what I see there in their web page page there. Of course with any commercial
work there are many answers I can't give too.. but really, the page says it
all. I am not a Premier or Collector Club member but I do believe if you wish
to join it's explained there as well - $20 to join, $100 deposit and then you
are committing to buy all 3 models for the year for $175 each. Hope I got that
right!!! :D The mold, as I understand it, will be introduced into their regular
run (normal stores, less complicated colors and regular Breyer prices) line in 2015.<br />
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So I said this yesterday on FB when the news was leaked a little bit (but I
didn't have a page or pictures to share so I waited here).. anyhow, but this is
a huge honor to me to be asked. Aaaaand I'm delighted that people are excited
about the performance possibilities... I hope he helps inspire kids the same
way Breyers inspired me as a youth! I just need to say this to give you an idea
of how BIG this day is to me; When I was 10 I read an article about Rich Rudish
sculpting Sham for Breyer. It was a pivotal point for me, I realized there are
some people who actually mostly sculpt horses for a career. It took 30 years to
get there but I’m pretty pleased. I'm really really looking forward to the day
when I can watch a kid playing with a Wyatt model!!!<br />
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Ok, well .. I guess that's all I can say except a big ole squeeee!!! (little
kid in me cannot wait to play with my own copy). ;)<br />
<br />
Ok, ok, yanno what? That's not true, I owe a LOT of my customers a
tremendous thank you. I mean this. If it wasn't for the patronage of you, I
would not have had the time to be taking on commissions like this, I'd be
working a 9-5 job still to make ends meet and these sorts of commercial tight
deadlines would simply be out of the question. So truly truly from the bottom
of my heart, a thank you for your support here for your steady patronage over
the years that has made me able to follow my dream and bring this to more
children in the future... ((big virtual hugs!!))<br />
<br />
(and again hehehe squeeee hurry up May, I want to play with my plastic
pony!!!!) :)<br />
Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-86512584519553245432013-10-26T13:46:00.001-07:002013-10-26T13:46:35.890-07:00Pixel!I'm really overdue for some posts here.. things got very busy for a bit and I'm sure the next few weeks will continue to leave me behind on a lot of things... for now, let me introduce the final sculpture: PIXEL! :D<br />
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There is a full gallery on his website / ordering page:<br />
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<a href="http://www.artbymorgen.com/pixel.htm">http://www.artbymorgen.com/pixel.htm</a><br />
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aaaaand the gallery alone is <a href="http://www.artbymorgen.com/galleries/pixel/album/index.html">http://www.artbymorgen.com/galleries/pixel/album/index.html</a><br />
I'll leave it at that for this post.. on to compose my other post for the day really quickly! ;)Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-81173583353014704542013-09-27T09:19:00.001-07:002013-09-27T09:19:30.714-07:00Married, AAEA Board Appointment, Pixel & more..!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I have a large number of big announcements here so
brevity would probably be best... but these brief summaries below are in no way
reflective of how excited I am about each!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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First and foremost, on Mon Sept 23rd at sunset in the front
yard of our farm I married my best friend, a man I've been with since January
of 2004.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will be taking his name but
professionally I will still be "DBA" (doing business as) "Morgen
Kilbourn".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we are both practical
types we had a short honeymoon at a local state park, and I hope that
absolutely nothing else changes! :D It's been a great 9.75 years so far and I'm
looking forward to many many more equally wonderful decades with him! :)</div>
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Second big announcement:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>on Sept 14th I was elected to the American Academy of Equine Art's board
as the Dean of Sculpture! This is such a tremendous honor but also an equally
weighty responsibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those not
familiar with the Academy, (AAEA), one of their stated goals is that "
AAEA serves to educate and encourage a broad awareness and appreciation of
contemporary equine art as a specific and distinctively worthy segment of fine
art in America".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many commercial
and model horse sculptors have had their work featured in past AAEA shows, this
isn't surprising to me as often a well done sculpture can be appealing in many
mediums and venues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At any rate, I would
like to take a bit more time to compose a more thorough outline of some of my
goals to bring into the roles of helping to oversee the shows and implementing
some old and new teaching venues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
also hope to bring some new technology ideas to the table and help in small
ways with the website as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will
be doing another workshop in the spring, this time I believe it will be held in
the Kentucky Horse Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Details are
being worked out on that and also will be forthcoming in the next month or so!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For now you can see an updated list of all
board members and a short biographical of the newly elected president here; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://myemail.constantcontact.com/AAEA-Elections-.html?soid=1109152397904&aid=ntNUyZFBdG4">http://myemail.constantcontact.com/AAEA-Elections-.html?soid=1109152397904&aid=ntNUyZFBdG4</a>
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Speaking of upcoming engagements:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>next weekend (Oct 7th) I will be a guest
judge at Laura Behning's 26th annual (wow huh!!!) SouthCon show in Covington
GA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>on November 2-3, 2013 I'll be a judge in my old stopping grounds of New
England at the Region X Regional Championships.</div>
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Lastly, my little Andalusian mini now has a name:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Pixel"... I loved this name the
moment I saw it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you to Jordan B
(please contact me Jordan if you see this!) for the suggestion... there were so
many great ideas and my list of possibles kept growing and growing, most were
Spanish in origin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However I wanted something
unique that grabbed me and embodied "tiny" too, which this did right
off the bat for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyhow, back to
working on him at the moment!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm hoping
to be wrapped up in a few weeks here!</div>
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Wishing everyone a lively fall as well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the best!!!</div>
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Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-81780773617926337742013-09-18T08:37:00.000-07:002013-09-18T08:37:42.006-07:00Still Taking Name Ideas..Since I haven't decided fully on the tiny Andalusian's name, I just wanted to let folks know it's still open. I have several names here as final choices but another could still sway me. It's unbelievably hard to decide (in general, for me it always is with any sculpture). They're all great ideas. It just has to speak to me in ways I can't quantify or explain. <br />
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I'll post a couple more pics here if it helps any. I use these to decide on many things.. such as where to continue to refine. With minis this small you almost can't refine them enough. Soooooo back to it..<br />
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Please submit name ideas on<a href="http://mksculpt.blogspot.com/2013/09/andy-needs-name.html"> the last post</a> though, not here. Tx guys and sorry to torture you with my own personal torture! At least I can make it worthwhile to someone though!!! :)Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-80440935603275835562013-09-15T15:14:00.001-07:002013-09-15T15:48:55.077-07:00Andy Needs a Name...And he's not really the Andrew type. :D<br />
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I don't know what it is about the 15th that finally reminds me I need to post to this blog once in a while but yet again, a post a whole month later.<br />
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This time for something fun! So this Andalusian sculpture is getting closer to completion here.. and I'm still at a loss for names. I could use some fun input and am very willing to give the FIRST person who gives me the name I go with a free copy (postage on you but otherwise free). :)<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>THE RULES:</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #660000;"><b>The name must begin with a "P"</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;"><b>It must be posted in the comments below to win, I will (maybe repeatedly) post "done" when I finally decide on one. There isn't really a time frame, I just need to go "omg I love it!"</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Keep it clean please! </b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Not a rule but PLEASE look through the previous names submitted so you don't waste your effort! :) </b></span></li>
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I may not have time to answer questions (and it might get confusing), so just give it a go.<br />
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I'd better turn the moderate comments feature off this time otherwise it will cause GREAT angst I'm sure.. that moderated comments thing is a frustrating feature that I only decided to use when some scammers started posting links to smarmy stuff that had nothing whatsoever to do with anything horses or art related. Lets hope I can get away with a few weeks without that though! :D<br />
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Blahblah - SO here he is hanging around in my studio.. his legs are setting after some intense reconstructive surgery. Those are my blinds behind him at a weird angle. He has work left to go clearly.. but it's more fun to work on a pony when he's named. <br />
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I inverted the photo just because it might help some folks see him better. He's an Andy cantering along at liberty and wildly tossing his head - his ears are missing but they will be pinned a bit. He's a stallion strutting his stuff!<br />
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It was really hard to take this pic actually but hopefully you can see that his mane's flip comes up to about 2.75 inches.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiITtjKatvKM_FANlVqKvCei2obH17uamMs5e3p51CA4hBGU9_8A9LuAKNFvNcV5PDswQyRQTaYaYfosWChfluwCd96J91ynOUVvQazh0JQKq5iWDhNVewNIF8L-XJkquZJTeiF_1Mms3o/s1600/bust_f_foal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>It’s not much to look at yet here but I’m SO excited! Getting to organize a new working space is always exciting anyhow. <br /><br />Sooooo clearly we’ve finally moved! We’re very much in central NC now, a different home than the one I posted (and removed) 3 or 4 months ago. This one is just gorgeous but clearly the above isn’t the inside of a steel building! ;) It’s slow going, most things are squirrely & need replacement or fixing so my current studio is eventually going to be the 2nd /guest bedroom. Eventually I hope to have converted either the garage here or this cinderblock building that housed cows and horses at one time here. We’ll see… right now this is still a lot more space in the studio than I had previously AND I can tuck my boxes and packing peanuts elsewhere – doubling the useable space at least. I’m a bit lost here so far as to what to do with it. And it’s just SO charming and pretty to me. What a world of inspiration that is, I’m just dying to tap into it!<br />
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<i>(above) Two sculptures that I had to pack away that I'm anxious to find & get out of their boxes tonight! :D</i><br />
<br />Lost in literal space here but VERY excited to get going… it’s like a huge lump of clay that could become anything.. ;) Aaaaaaaaaaaaand I do plan to start a sculpture right off the bat here too. Right after I unpack, lol! In the meantime I’ve got vintage VHS of the entire X-files series (commercials and all – ala 90’s, so fun!), to keep me company in unpacking and setting up shop.<br /><br />Just a brief update on where we’re at! :D<br />Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-8189215563794776682013-06-30T13:33:00.000-07:002013-06-30T13:33:58.920-07:00Water accessory effect fitting video...<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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(I am cross posting this everywhere from my lists to make
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Hi guys!</div>
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I need to confess that this took me about 20 tries to make ..
aaaaand even then this final footage still had a lot of out-takes so that I had
to splice it together a bit.. I’m just NOT very good at this yet!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, I really really wanted to show how the
water collar works (and more importantly, how tight fitting it does NOT work
for pulling it on & off!).. So I just really felt I should give some basic
tips so that no one ruins their finishes – even though it’s nothing really very
new. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is just the same sort of common
sense needed in making & putting on tack; You have to plan for where it
will possibly rub and make sure the fit is roomy enough and not scratchy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hoping this video will better illustrate my
recommendations.. so please bear with me through the follies of trying that!</div>
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Towards the end at least it gets a little better in focus
(youtube is always tricky though too).. but at the very very least I hope <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you also can see how strong the final seaweed
and magnets are! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a LOT of collaboration
with the caster too in order to make sure the seaweed was as thin as it could
be BUT still be strong enough to hold her without sagging down over time (steel
rods prevent that). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also use stronger
magnets in the real final castings than I did for the bronze demo casting in that
last video.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NOTE THOUGH!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>:D You won’t be able to stick her to your
car, or garage door.. nor upside-down or anything too wild or radical, but I’ve
gotten <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a lot of questions there about
how secure she is up there so hope it helps show their strength better too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(No ponies were harmed in the making of this
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I’d really like to also to add that.. (hangs head in
mortification)…my voice is sooo flat and unenthusiastic after those 20 tries
too…lol! No voiceover career likely here I’m afraid…! :) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BUT here’s to hoping it’s at least tolerable
though and that I’m mostly audible (and make sense)!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truly need to add thanks for everyone’s
support and patience as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of
the paid for Oceania castings should be mailed by the end of this week. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact I’ve got 10 completely done that were
only waiting on this url for their supplemental tips in the accessory
packets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s how much I felt I really
needed to have “how to” in video form!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>& Without further ado, here
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Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-74529183282665634002013-06-04T08:01:00.001-07:002013-06-04T08:03:08.556-07:00The gift of insight<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]-->It's not any particularly unique bereavement experience here but I'm constantly learning of things I wish I knew when my mother was alive. She passed away in 2011 and since then I've been receiving wonderful gifts from friends and family in the form of knowing her in ways I didn't as her child.<br /><br />She was a sculptor. I didn't know this. You might laugh or be shocked to hear that but if you knew her you'd know how humble she was about her own artistic talent. Her father was a sculptor, for a living he taught and sold art. However she was a social worker who had always sworn to me that she had no artistic talent what so ever... even though I'd always envied (and tried to emulate) her abstract doodles she'd draw while on the phone (you know, back when phones used to be corded affairs that kept you chained to the wall). ANYHOW, I know I tried to convince her otherwise at times but I wish I'd had better ammo such as this. Artists can be too hard on themselves and she certainly was.<br /><br />So with little more commentary or fanfare, I'd just like to share with you something that arrived in the mail yesterday tha mom made around 35 years ago as a wedding gift for friends. I didn't even know she dabbled in stone carving but I feel like I should've known. Since I was out of diapers by then if I could stretch my memory maybe I could even remember her actually sculpting this. Anyhow, the friend who gave me this gave me more than just a work of art. Thank you Emmitt. You can't know what this means to me.<br />
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Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-70811014658799757582013-06-03T10:24:00.000-07:002013-06-03T10:42:52.744-07:00Things that shouldn't have worked! :)First off - I always forget to mention it on my journalistic blog here but the swimming mare Oceania is now available to the public at large. :) Her page is here;<br />
<a href="http://artbymorgen.com/oceania.htm">http://artbymorgen.com/oceania.htm</a><br />
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Today's discussion; A molding method that kinda shouldn't have worked..!!! I thought of diagramming this more but it's so simplistic that frankly the explanation might take more time than it did to make it... and really -> I can NOT recommend this method! It only worked here because of the 2 works in question had the right shape to make it so. Their legs really should not have cast at all and honestly, the mule's leg didn't cast... I had just planned to use wire supports for him there anyhow (mules have small hooves), so it wasn't a biggie to have missing limbs! <br />
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As such, here are some updated pictures of my feisty liberty-act Andalusian and yet another "how NOT to do this" example.<br />
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I really cannot believe it worked. I poured the rubber over it all.. then pulled out the big blob the next day and cut the horse out relatively easily! The holes you see are where I decided to carve a couple more sprues. Then where I was casting something else I poured the resin here too.. Using the largest hole as my pour-spout point(see first photo there - hole in the center), and again, holding fingers basically on the side w/the clay plugs, the thickness of the walls was enough to hold the resin in (I sort of held it together a tad bit tighter than is shown).<br />
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The goofiest part of this set up (probably spotted immediately by those who've molded anything) is those 2 extra sprues on the side. I had to literally plug them with clay after they started pushing out resin because otherwise the level of the resin pour would have slowly leaked out the side at that point before it kicked. Not the most sane approach but definitely simple enough. I also held my fingers there so the clay didn't pop back out, but I was pretty sure my (SmoothOn 300) resin was gelling up at that point anyhow.<br />
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Truly the laziest whole horse mold I've ever done. Clearly they were meant to be if it worked.<br />
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It's been a while since I've shown him here.. last year I think. Anyhow, he needs more tweaking/leg refinements (I did fully replace one of his legs too as it broke when I was adjusting it.. very small!). LOTS of tiny details still to come. Overall though I'm happy enough (verses the state of the mules today), to share him. Sooooo tada I guess! There you are. I'm not sure how long it will be until I have time to wrap him up -> a LOT is going on here.<br />
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In fact the whole reason I cast these a bit prematurely from their clay state is that I didn't want to (a) deep pack them for shipping/storage in the summertime in their super soft clay state.. yes there are ways to unsure they are ok but honestly I had tried hard & soft clay approaches on the legs and decided that I'd be getting the best detail out of refinements to the resin hard copies. (b) I was casting multiple molds for Oceania's water accessories (I am casting those myself), and it was easier to mix up just a bit more of this rubber and do it then & there rather than to calculate such small volumes (the ability to have excess and share it across a # of molds in other words).<br />
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Above he is shown with one of the few Breyer Stablemates I have: a 1:32 scale Maureen Love work. Definitely shows how much more refinement he still needs but I thought it fun to show how he's one of my few TRUE 1:32 scale works.<br />
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The undercut here of the mane was one reason I thought to try my crazy molding method. I really can't explain it well - it's a 3D thing.. but it's a paaaain sometimes. Suffice to say, a big "WHEW" that it worked out!<br />
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Below you can really see his feigned angry little head toss and flying mane. It was inspired by the (many) types of fantastic and fantastical genera of entertainment such as the Cavalia shows. <br />
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Btw, if you've never been to one of these types of shows I highly recommend it! And at least check out some of the videos on the YouTube channel here; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsXxYiaP2YM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsXxYiaP2YM</a><br />
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They definitely aren't giving away all the magic though. It's really quite inspiring & worth every penny to attend!<br />
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And that sums up what I've been playing with for new sculptures (sans showing the mules at least). The mules are bigger - but 3 little guys. More soon I hope! :D<br />
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<br />Morgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203635635342586921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8809724039375330948.post-62364145444192068602013-05-15T17:38:00.001-07:002013-05-15T18:13:33.483-07:00Oceania swims out into the wide blue today! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's to hoping this works.. if not, here's the page;<br />
<a href="http://www.shoogleit.com/2372-0_Swimming-mare-sculpture">http://www.shoogleit.com/2372-0_Swimming-mare-sculpture </a><br />
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Many more details were sent to my mailing lists.. for now, just sharing the interactive 360. :D<br />
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Editing to add now that I have gotten the video up on youtube too for those who can't do the interactive bit;<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWNraoIMCbg&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWNraoIMCbg&feature=youtu.be</a><br />
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