I will admit that I am not a patient person when it comes to painting. I am not the type to sit down, paint, go do something else. I am of the mindset that if I am painting then-gosh darn it I'm painting! That being said, acrylics are a temperamental beast at the best of times, and it's still quite humid here in the Midwest. To counteract this and my impatience for drying times, I work on multiple projects at once. The smart thing would be work on things that are similarly colored, and typically I do, but sometimes I need to add some other colors to my canvases that I am not putting on the model horses, or vice versa. Today is a prime example: I put some blues & purple on my palette for new canvases that I started when I didn't need them for the current horses I'm working on.
Speaking of what I'm working on! That's the entire point of this post! Currently, I've got four paintings in the work: my super late July Year of the Pig piece, what will eventually be an orca on an abstract background mini canvas, another mini canvas that will eventually be a Arctic scene with a Polar Bear or two, and an Elk on an abstract background which is nearing completion.
On the first "table" is the larger model horses. The grey Blue Ribbon Quarter Horse is a fun personal horse (pretty eager to get him finished, but as he's a personal piece, I tend to set him off to the side) & two sales pieces: a Breyer Classic Ginger who will be a flaxen chestnut and a Breyer Traditional Legionario III who I've dubbed "Symbiosis" he's a fantasy piece that is one of my more labor intensive endeavors as he will have some adds on along with his new paint job.
Moving on to table two we have a mish-mosh of Breyer Stablemates & miscellaneous micros. Hidden behind the water cup and paints are a Breyer SM Calf, that will be for sale once it's completed, a micro of unknown make that is a personal project, a Breyer Paso Fino SM that might be having a change in direction from what I originally intended, and an altered Breyer Cantering Warmblood SM & base that will be a chestnut & will be a sales piece. Then there's my NaMoReViMo Breyer SM which I need to finish prepping and settle on a color already, it's been altered to resemble Breyer's Traditional Misty's Twilight mold (and it's Breyer's Trotting Warmblood SM). Then there's my fun, deformed Breyer Friesian SM that was intended to be a unicorn but due to my ignorant self, of the time, he was deformed in attempts to alter his positioning/attach his horn and beard. I don't know what he'll look like when finished as he's been a WIP for years and I only keep getting crazier ideas as he keeps getting weirder and stranger alterations each go around. On top of that, but thankfully not a priority project, is a Breyer SM Unicorn Clyde with additions to its mane & tail. Finally, there are the two micros: a Great Dane & altered fantasy pewter micro. These are for a friend in trade of all the photos she took of my models for me.
There are many more projects hiding in the drawers of "table" one, but they aren't even started yet, so it's all good!
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