Foal born while on the phone today :)

Babies popping out of nowhere!!! Spring must be in the air! He just sprang out of my imagination while on the phone today at lunchtime. Normally I like to keep my hands busy now by working on a relief sculpture... I've been doing these on hard flat easy to hold surfaces like this CD case. This particular clay doodle sprang into life in full dimension pretty fast however! :)

He's vewy vewy sweeeeeeepy and is trying to stay awake but is falling backwards sloooooowly.... zzzzzzzzz....













PS to this I should mention too that I do need to work on proportions some.... like his neck needs to be shortened a tad I'm sure (haven't measured yet). He's currently being popsiclized in the freezer (it's 90 in here so btwn the fast work up & heat he's goooooey & got hard to work on so I snapped some pics & went to go get references).

Old things & new things! :)

First off, the option of resin in black I will mention once more today here (I posted to my group as well), however I won’t put a button for it on the web page here http://www.artbymorgen.com/johann.htm because I’ll only be ordering 1 more batch of this edition so after I do that the option to special order black ones won’t be available.

I know I’m posting it everywhere too, (forgive the redundancy!) but the dark (dyed) resin is really nice for both prepping and handling down the road. Painted white resin can show white rubs (I’m always being asked at shows to touch up someone’s horse or if I had this or that color paint…), whereas at least black rubs and scratches are a little less glaring and noticable. It’s not for everyone, many folks like to do their finish work over white primer or gesso and this may still show white around a scratch or rub. Me well, I paint over rust colored primer usually myself because it’s the thinnest primer leaving the most detail – but maybe that’s why those eartips rub easier? Grins!

Ok, quick weekend wrap up… I love meeting new customers in new areas…! I went to Carolina Gold Classic, it was an exceptionally big show – 50 entrants! I’m used to shows with around 30 so this was fun, but I was probably zombified… I get excited the night before shows and events and tend not to fall asleep so easily. I’ve tried everything but sleeping pills and I just refuse.. it’s been a lifelong issue (as in I can remember field trips in elementary school where I would be so jazzed up I’d get no sleep the night before too). The real solution is to get out and do these more often! ;)

I brought along a small truckload of miniature tack (this is thus far the only thing I really collect and obsess over)... all because I simply didn’t take the time to sort through it for the 4 classes I’d hoped to dress up one particular horse in a set of classes I hadn’t put her in yet (English). Anyhow, well, I messed up and wound up not showing her after all! HA! But I’m glad I did because I got to lend out tack and meet some new folks that way too. It was good day all in all!

Now to prepare for the Stoneybrook Steeplechase where I’ll have a tent. In the meantime I’ll be out there at the Carolina Horse park taking reference photos in 2 weeks at their first big 3 day event. Looking forward to sharing some photos of this soon.

This one is for Lauren.. ;)

.. while I'm on a roll here today I give you "Gleep" in progress!

He's a massive rock of a table weight really. Actually, he can serve as a bookend nearly (has 2 flat sides). More soon on him as well. A gal named Lauren and I are scheming on this one! :)

New faces and new stories to share :)

I've been typing too much today and need to get back to work now..! :) I posted these to my site however and will try to have some as magnets this weekend... aaaaaaannnd...





I shared the low down on my relief sculpture online finally. I hope to get him cast soon;


I put more info here; http://www.artbymorgen.com/joe_reed_page.htm and hope you'll read it - I think it's a cool story but I can't vouch for the storyteller in this case (blushes).

PS. I guess I should add that my dad (who is currently living out there with Dorothy in AZ) reported yesterday that Dorothy seemed very pleased with the likeness in her gift here. I honestly was pretty worried about that - she doesn't exactly hold back her opinions at 94 (not sure if she ever did but she sure doesn't now). Whew! :)

Pins and Magnet making finally!

My customer there (my last post) ;) finally prompted me to make up a few of these after talking about it since last year. Literally I have no idea how I'll "display" them at the coming events I'm attending. They are fun though, widget madness! I have more designs I hope to have the time to mold/cast before my next few events.. and back to that now.. blabbing too much over here! :D

Customer sent me this pic :)

Thought it was neat to see a widget in use (aside from the ones on our fridge - lol!).

I'm just posting things daily now to make my photos go away to the next page... ;)

An alert little herd of soldiers!

A row of Johann's awaiting their time payments with baited breath!! lol! Sorta looking a bit like the Queen's Guard all in white.

Really didn't have much beyond that silly pic to share, just that had the camera out here again today & snapped that. I never remember to show the "conga" scenes of the studio and they can be kind of fun sometimes. This little conga just seems to exaggerate the "Attention!" look. More time payment castings are coming in though and it's going to get a lot more crowded on that shelf.. plus I have stickers that go on their headdresses so it'll look much more cluttered in short order.

I'm really looking forward to seeing folks this Saturday at Julia's show! Gettin' the spring cabin fever thing here! All the same, getting a lot of work done too, so no worries. ;)

Pony is very worried...

Worried about the tick I seem to have developed in my face? He's saying "omg! are you ok Morgen??!!!"


I was just laughing too hard at this not to share. Now you all know what I look like... sorta... when I'm making faces which, sadly, is what I do best on camera. :/


Editing to add this on later that day (Friday)... this is what I'm going with though as my "This is what I look like in this century" bio pic now;


So there ya go too Jenn on the pony.. you know there was a photo Jenn had of me holding a weeeeeeee tiny hat from a show in Colorado that I almost wanted to ask her for. But I sucked it up and had these done instead. Painful! Ok, moving on...

There's a long story here...

More in a few days! For now I'll just let folks wonder... :)

Great weather, very therapeutic/rejuvenating here

I share this pic really only because it has the slight (!eek!) illusion of "crash!". How appropo of things in my life I think? :) You may have to hold your breath at times but all will pass smoothly. Anyhow, more practically this is maybe the most notable photo I'd gotten really today (everything else being horses working and from a distance mostly, or unflattering poses/close ups). This & a handful more were all I got of reference photos at the Carolina Horse Park - folks gearing up for the events in a few weeks. I'm going to fill up my server with all the "reference" sharing so no more, promise!

No this is just a quick post to say all is well here. The weather has been good. I went back to New England in January and aside from the fact that nothing about the trip was for fun really, the weather was unbelievably worse than I ever remember it (at least snow volume wise) and it was dismal & ironic at best, downright scary to be traveling around in at times. I am exceptionally grateful not to still be there trying to deal with the last barn I worked at too. The gate system there simply was nearly impossible in snow/ice conditions. I've heard some horror stories from folks up there this season, and well, have seen some shocking pictures; my heart goes out to you all! I wish all my pals could come join me down here? :) In a few more months when it will be cruelly hot I guess & you can be laughing at me. Mostly just sharing here that I am happy to be home, time seems to be flying along (feels like I just got back a week ago) but I needed to just add that it really felt like a "rebirth" to come back down here to the (apparently exceptionally unseasonably mind you) warm weather and things to look forward to doing. Tomorrow when severe storms come through I might not be able to post how grateful I am in the dark w/out power. ;)