Kristian Beverly

My very non-horsey week

April 6, 2014December 28, 2024Kristian Beverly4 Comments

Between homework and regular arts stuff, my week with model horses was very limited.
For a field trip, the AP and Pre-AP Art students went to Messiah College to have a critique of some of our artwork and check out the classes. Sorry about the cell phone pictures throughout the post!
The sculpting area was awesome. Here’s a part of it.

Some of the college artwork in the room.

The gang.

The idea was thought up during the ACSI Competition during a seminar a couple of weeks ago. One of the art professors gave the idea for the AP and Pre AP students to visit for a half day. I showed my saddle for the competition. It received an excellant.

There were tons of awesome pieces of artwork all by students ranging from 9th to 12th grade.

The Bridle

April 1, 2014December 28, 2024Kristian Beverly10 Comments

This is what I have been working on the past couple of days.

It’s my first ever commission! Since it is my first and I want to make it look nice, the bridle has been fighting me tooth and nail the whole time.
Here are the laced reins, which I just realized are going the wrong way. Oh bridle, we’re so close to being done, yet we’re still so far. :)

New Idea

March 29, 2014December 28, 2024Kristian Beverly2 Comments

A local church in my area had a book sale today.
Two of the books were horse related. This is my favorite one.

While the book is not cut-able,because the breed descriptions takes up two pages,

it does make up in the content.

I really want to try out one of these or a couple of these forms of police tack one day. It has great close up pictures with descriptions about the actual tack that is used. When looking for references, I can not stress enough how great having books for multiple purposes is. Sure, you may be able to find it on the internet, but books are nice to hold and will forever be different from the internet. So this was a great find for today!

New Saddle, New Doll

March 28, 2014December 28, 2024Kristian Beverly4 Comments

While these two items have been done since Saturday (finished both Friday night), they haven’t been shown on the blog *officially*.
These are the two items.

My Yvonne doll was made by Zica toys. I bought her during breyerfest and was too afraid to dress her. Last week I decided I no longer wanted her to be naked, so she was dressed as an english rider with the boots also being made by me. I need to fix her hair and make her helmet more realistic, but she is pretty much done. The reason why I love this doll is because she can move and keep her position so easily. I highly recommend her when you can find her!