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Progress

January 20, 2014December 28, 2024Kristian Beverly4 Comments

I painted the inside of the bank and the bottom of the river. I used browns such as Burnt Umber, Raw Sienna and other colors you use to paint model horses. Dry brushing seems to be a pretty popular way to paint rocks, but instead, I just watered down the paints and blended them together. Then I used black to base coat everything on the bottom since I’m using sand to cover it.

A River Runs Through It Diorama

January 20, 2014December 28, 2024Kristian BeverlyLeave a comment

First off this post has nothing to do with A River Runs Through It, but it seemed like a catchy title.

Dioramas/scenes are great props to performance showing. I’ve seen plenty of cool ones featuring some type of water in it.

For a long time I’ve only admired them, wondering how I could ever figure out how to make one with one. After researching references and reading through how-tos by numerous authors, I decided to give it a try. You can only get better, right? So this will be a total trial and error project that I’m hoping will be more positive than a failure. :)

I gathered supplies.

I used poster board to be the base. I wanted to make it showable sized, which meant I need to be well within the limits of the qualifications. During Christmas, Michaels had a sale on snow diorama bases, so I bought a pack. Really it’s just foam pieces. I drew out the outline of where I wanted the river to be.

I hacked up the foam pieces to fit within where I wanted them to go.

I covered the open hole with plaster sheets.

Then modeling paste was used to create ridges and a ‘banky’ look to the side so it wasn’t straight. I’ve used modeling paste to give models a furry coat, so I thought it would be interesting to try sculpting the bank’s ridges with it and I’m happy I did. I wanted erosion from water to show. Plus ridges make it more realistic looking.

Using some foam pieces, I also ripped, tore, and sanded pieces down to have more of a appearance of rocks.

I glued them down, and coated modge podge onto it as filler and to cement everything together. I have no idea if modge podge is filler, but it seemed like a good idea at the time! The gel medium will be used to make a current/waterfall going over the rocks.

Well, the next part is painting!

Pleasure Driving

January 15, 2014December 28, 2024Kristian Beverly3 Comments

Compared to the fast and furious carriage racing, there was another demo featuring some of the Delaware Valley College Equestrian Team.

While there were horses under saddle doing dressage,

huntseat,

and jumping,

there was a horse showcasing pleasure driving.

Indoor Carriage Racing

January 15, 2014December 28, 2024Kristian Beverly4 Comments

Here are some pictures from the indoor carriage race. Indoor Carriage Racing is a competition where horse and driver maneuver around obstacles at a fast pace.The first person controls the horse, while the second one balances the weight of the carriage so it doesn’t flip…or fall….or any other types of gravity issues.

The horses entered the arena, did a lap around the arena, before starting their run.
This was a fast pony and he finished first or second overall. All of the teams did two runs.