Jan/Feburary 2025 - Current EventsSo much has been brewing in the studio, much of which is visible on my Instagram site, so be sure not to miss the fun video updates there (@workhorsestudios_terichandani.com). But to dive into the new year, so many developments have been occurring;
-Two, separate, original sculpture busts, of which I'm cleaning up and customizing the masters on as I type! A typey Dutch Harness Horse Version 1 and 2, and a Mini-Dutchie counterpart are both in the works, I will be sharing their photos with you when they are in final form and have their glamour shots ready to post. -I learn new skills each year. This year it's molding and casting! Exciting, scary, time-consuming, and costly, but absolutely worth it! I have learned so much already as I am & will continue creating these high quality Dutch Harness horse busts in-house. -I am still working on my original sculpture baroque poneh and will continue to do so. I redid his entire hinder as it just wasn't quite right and his armature wire noodled on me, which affected joint-to-joint lengths and required correction. This non-linear approach to work is so necessary for the process, and has produced better and better results each time, so it's all progress! Will he be completed and cast in time for Breyerfest 2025? That's a big "We'll see", but it's certainly one of my top priorities! -BREYERFEST'S 75th Commemorative Event - I will be THERE! I'm such a kid - I can't contain my joy at attending my 2nd Breyerfest, in July of this year...sooo looking forward to seeing many of our hobby community there! I'm hoping to procure an artisan's table and have lots of goodies to sell, such as the Dutchies, swag, painted work/customs, and *hopefully* my dodging-charging baroque boy :) -In ongoing guided learning, I am taking Heather Bullach's course on painting black in oils and meeting with sculpting artists to gain their insights as they are willing and able to so generously share their time and wisdom with me. I am so honored that they do so. Reflecting on 2024I feel so greatful for the dynamic year that passed, which brought so many wonderful changes that will continue to help me on my journey towards creating equine 3-D art professionally now and going forward. I was able to participate in the May, 2024 Wire to Whinny workshop, held by Lynn Fraley and hosted by Bluebird Studios in Santa Fe, NM, by the warmest (and most organized!) hosts - Beth and Billy Cooper! I cannot say enough about this workshop, Lynn, Beth, Billy, the location, and the wonderful "life-models" there; Beth & Billy's beautiful, sweet horses which are on site just on the other side of the workshop's wall! I learned an unbelievable amount of knowledge and skill from Lynn's incredible tutelage in just 4 days-she truly is a matriarch in her field! I also fell in LOVE with Santa Fe, all it's rustic history, art galleries, and restaurants.,.I didn't want to leave! I also had the fortune of meeting some incredibly talented artists such as the incomparable Kylee Parks, Nikki Button, and Karen Miller from Australia. It was a wonderful whirlwind of whinny-awesomeness and allowed for a *massive* boost forward in my sculpting abilities. Thank you Lynn, Beth, and Billy, and the artists there who warmly shared their company and skill. Memory of a lifetime! I also had the chance to complete two painting classes; one prior to Wire to Whinny; Karen Beeson's Dapple Grey painting class, in which we studied pattern theory and greying over time, and one after WTW; Heather Bullach's Chestnut and Bay in Oils class. Both classes were invaluable teaching "toolboxes" of their own, and I feel so lucky to have such expertise in our hobby! I finally, after many, many years, was able to participate in a live show and enter pieces I had painted (and some, partially customized)....Canyons & Caballos Live Show held in Los Angeles, California (a relatively short drive from home!). I not only meet amazing hobby people wherever I go but I learn each and every time I join in something "hobby". This time it was how to eat humble pie, in the face of 100 entrants and absolute top-tier work from around the world judged by top-tier judges! I discovered it is much more challenging to take home rosettes nowadays due to this abundance of talent, but I am content with my NAN's at such a tough, amazing show! Thank you judges Heather Bullach, Mel Miller, and Caroline Boydston, for you insight, advice, and hard work (I don't envy you in placing those horses!). I finished out the year with a Christmas get-together of the Southern California hobbyist group. Talk about an absolute BLAST full of laughter, shenanigans (YESSSS! I LURVE SHENANIGANS!) and good cheer. I felt so at home "with my people" - my model horse tribe - and I could not have been happier than to meet everyone. We had loads of yummy food, and I brought chai and my husband's awesome chicken curry because of course, me...and we had a horsey themed White Elephant gift exchange. My contribution was slightly over-the-edge regarding family friendly but let's just say it created some laughs and good cheer. We stayed til late, I bought a clinky from Heather Wells and drooled over her incredible collection full of hobby history and *awwwesomme* ... and of course talked shop. Caroline Boydston gave me some invaluable insight on my sculptures... it was just a fantastic time! What a truly wonderful way to close out a fantastic year! Looking forward to what 2025 brings! See you there :) |
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NEW SCULPTURES IN THE WORKS!!!
I am so excited to be sharing this boy with you all! He isn't quite ready for casting yet, as you can see, (at the moment, he's in an ugly stage, but some very good progression has taken place and I *hope* his basic structure is where it needs to be to start detailing...again...lol). He is making great progress and I *hope* to be casting him soon, after refining his anatomical details further. This bit of Spanish baroque goodness started out as a "Wire to Whinny" workshop project at Bluebird Studios, in Santa Fe, NM, taught by the amazing Lynn Fraley. He has changed *drastically* since then! He could be just about any Spanish breed, and I can just imagine him in all the pretty horsey colors <3 Thank you Lynn, for helping me to make this guy a reality, and for giving me some much-needed tools (learning and reference) to start on the path of producing my own original sculptures!
Stromness -
Stromness NAN'd, winning 1st in her breed class at Canyons & Caballos LIve in Los Angeles, October, 2024.
This gal has really made me stretch my skills, and made me wait, wait, wait, as her intense details took their own time to be completed. I resculpted her mane and tail and flipped an ear to give her the look of a spooky young mare on a windy Irish day. I think it gives her a very different personality from the original, which was already incredible, in my opinion! Then I proceeded to give her a hair-by-hair dark dapple grey paint job in oils, with lighting marks and all the great little details we find on early dapple grays, including ticking. To top it off, I added a set of Rio Rondo shoes and painted shaded nailholes/chromey nailheads on her detailed feets. She was signed and then sealed in Dull Coat, with hooves and eyes glossed, Fall of 2024.
And she is, after almost a year, finally DONE! I had planned to sell her over the summer, but I think I will hold off until next summer. I am hoping to take her to Nationals before offering her for sale.
BUT...If I get an offer I can't refuse, from a very involved show home...I'm keeping an open mind!
Stromness NAN'd, winning 1st in her breed class at Canyons & Caballos LIve in Los Angeles, October, 2024.
This gal has really made me stretch my skills, and made me wait, wait, wait, as her intense details took their own time to be completed. I resculpted her mane and tail and flipped an ear to give her the look of a spooky young mare on a windy Irish day. I think it gives her a very different personality from the original, which was already incredible, in my opinion! Then I proceeded to give her a hair-by-hair dark dapple grey paint job in oils, with lighting marks and all the great little details we find on early dapple grays, including ticking. To top it off, I added a set of Rio Rondo shoes and painted shaded nailholes/chromey nailheads on her detailed feets. She was signed and then sealed in Dull Coat, with hooves and eyes glossed, Fall of 2024.
And she is, after almost a year, finally DONE! I had planned to sell her over the summer, but I think I will hold off until next summer. I am hoping to take her to Nationals before offering her for sale.
BUT...If I get an offer I can't refuse, from a very involved show home...I'm keeping an open mind!
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La Llorona! She is Sarah Minkiewicz-Breunig's "Bitten by the Bug" medallion that I painted which was featured in Sarah's Newsletter September, 2023! I was still working on tiny fidgety details at that time, and her back side mural, so I took my time with her. I painted her to a buttery, warm red dun with attention to all her wonderful fleshy details. She has a canyon sunset mural painted on the back side. I gave her a working name; "La Llorona" after the Mexican mythological spirit of a woman scorned. Doesn't she look like she would eat little 4-H kids for breakfast?
(*Buyer is welcome to change her name, if they prefer*)
(*Buyer is welcome to change her name, if they prefer*)
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Brandebun
*UPDATE* : Brandebun is now DOUBLE NAN'D IN WORKMANSHIP AND BREED!
I was so excited to show this beautiful girl at Canyons & Caballos Live in Los Angeles, October 2024. The competition was BRUTAL and she did great! If sold, she will come with her NAN cards and pumpkin paper "ribbons". She will also come with her (digital) photos as seen below.
Brandebun (Stacey Tumlinson) is such a sweet little ball of pudge! I painted her a roan tobiano with one blue and one brown eye, with "textured" whites (hair-by-hair with "shadows" painted in to show the roots of the hair and the growth patten), and carved/sculpted hoof bottoms/frogs....And....after months of work, she's DONE! I'm sooo thrilled to be saying I am finally done futzing with all her details and adding her to the "Finished" list!
*UPDATE* : Brandebun is now DOUBLE NAN'D IN WORKMANSHIP AND BREED!
I was so excited to show this beautiful girl at Canyons & Caballos Live in Los Angeles, October 2024. The competition was BRUTAL and she did great! If sold, she will come with her NAN cards and pumpkin paper "ribbons". She will also come with her (digital) photos as seen below.
Brandebun (Stacey Tumlinson) is such a sweet little ball of pudge! I painted her a roan tobiano with one blue and one brown eye, with "textured" whites (hair-by-hair with "shadows" painted in to show the roots of the hair and the growth patten), and carved/sculpted hoof bottoms/frogs....And....after months of work, she's DONE! I'm sooo thrilled to be saying I am finally done futzing with all her details and adding her to the "Finished" list!
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Benedek
*UPDATE* : Bendedek is available for purchase. I'm asking $430 PPD in the USA (time payments available with MHTB greens and non-refundable payments).
This stallion is SO full of himself! Benedek is my favorite curio scale sculpt by Sarah Minkiewicz-Breunig...she has a way of breathing fire into her pieces, doesn't she? And Benedek (who I've nicknamed "Purple Nurple" due to all the gorgeous purply-undertones in his paint job-and because I'm a goof, lol).
He has blended dappling, hair-by-hair work on his multi-shaded whites, detailed eyes and hooves such as you would see on a traditional-scaled piece, and multi-shaded mane/detail.
This firey fellow is now available for purchase!
*UPDATE* : Bendedek is available for purchase. I'm asking $430 PPD in the USA (time payments available with MHTB greens and non-refundable payments).
This stallion is SO full of himself! Benedek is my favorite curio scale sculpt by Sarah Minkiewicz-Breunig...she has a way of breathing fire into her pieces, doesn't she? And Benedek (who I've nicknamed "Purple Nurple" due to all the gorgeous purply-undertones in his paint job-and because I'm a goof, lol).
He has blended dappling, hair-by-hair work on his multi-shaded whites, detailed eyes and hooves such as you would see on a traditional-scaled piece, and multi-shaded mane/detail.
This firey fellow is now available for purchase!
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*UPDATE* : *He is now NAN qualified!* He is available for $1,230 PPD in USA (time payments accepted with non-refundable payments, MHTB Greens required)
I love Morgen Killbourne's work, especially "Pocket Change"! The way she captured the fleshy musculature and fascia on this guy! Just an awesome sculpt! He is in classic scale. I Painted him in a soft, glowy chesntut in oils with hair-by-hair Appy blanket/markings, soft mottling, blue eyes, shaded/highlited wrinkles, and subtle highlites/shading.
I love Morgen Killbourne's work, especially "Pocket Change"! The way she captured the fleshy musculature and fascia on this guy! Just an awesome sculpt! He is in classic scale. I Painted him in a soft, glowy chesntut in oils with hair-by-hair Appy blanket/markings, soft mottling, blue eyes, shaded/highlited wrinkles, and subtle highlites/shading.
Meet "Derp"! Looking for that stoic drafter that's going to pull carriages with class for you, or logs with stoic, Viking-esque strength? Yeahhhh, Derp's not that horse. Sorry. Derp is actually that horse that has cast himself on the fence...again...and licks other horses, on their faces...lays his head on the farrier's back, and scared himself into a tree, because...he farted? Derp is THAT horse. We've all had a complete goober of a horse we've known and loved, and Derp is the embodiment of that goober! I love his sweet face, and windblown, breezy tendrils!
He has a new eye, as his original left eye looked a little "off" to me, and ears, and mane, tail, and feathering. He has a whole new muzzle, with a slightly open mouth and lots of fleshy wrinkles. He also has a special friend! Derp's friend is an equally derpy butterfly, who doesn't yet realize it's not good to be flying on a windy day. Derp and his butterfly both have nimodium magnets so they can stick together :) As soon as Derp's feathering is completed, it'll be on to Phase 2 - Prepping, for this silly drafter. I plan to show him prior to selling, and am thinking about taking him to Nationals at Breyerfest 2025, assuming I can get him qualified! Let's see what happens!
He has a new eye, as his original left eye looked a little "off" to me, and ears, and mane, tail, and feathering. He has a whole new muzzle, with a slightly open mouth and lots of fleshy wrinkles. He also has a special friend! Derp's friend is an equally derpy butterfly, who doesn't yet realize it's not good to be flying on a windy day. Derp and his butterfly both have nimodium magnets so they can stick together :) As soon as Derp's feathering is completed, it'll be on to Phase 2 - Prepping, for this silly drafter. I plan to show him prior to selling, and am thinking about taking him to Nationals at Breyerfest 2025, assuming I can get him qualified! Let's see what happens!
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FUTURE SALES PROJECTS
**EXCITING NEWS!!**
I AM OFFERING SEVERAL RESINS FOR SALE WITH A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE CUSTOM SLOT FOR EACH, BUT WITH A LIMIT TO 4 SLOTS FOR EACH SIX-MONTH PERIOD. PLEASE SEE MY SALES PAGE AND MY CUSTOM ORDER PRICING/POLICIES PAGE FOR DETAILS.
I AM OFFERING SEVERAL RESINS FOR SALE WITH A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE CUSTOM SLOT FOR EACH, BUT WITH A LIMIT TO 4 SLOTS FOR EACH SIX-MONTH PERIOD. PLEASE SEE MY SALES PAGE AND MY CUSTOM ORDER PRICING/POLICIES PAGE FOR DETAILS.