You don’t realize how many spots an appaloosa has until you decide to paint one.
Upon closer inspection of my reference photos, I realized I couldn’t get away with only doing face mottling.
Spots Spots Spots
NaMoPaiMo Weekend 1
The first weekend of NaMoPaiMo is coming to a close and my model is coming along. This year I decided to paint a traditional model instead of a stablemate like last year.
I have a bad habit of when an idea comes into my head, that’s all I want to do. I’ll end up doing an all nighter or all weekend binge to get the idea out. Sometimes the end result comes out how I imagined, but other times it’s just a hot mess. My goal this year is to pace myself. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and my model doesn’t need to be either.
Continue readingHorse Books to Read For Black History Month
Happy Black History Month!
I wanted to do a book recommendation list for Black History Month that was horse themed.
So here they are. I will preface that I haven’t read all of these. I picked some based on reviews, recommendation, and scholarship.
Continue readingSergeant Reckless
Sometimes you find yourself in the right place at the right time. This happened at Breyerfest 2019. I can’t remember where I was coming from nor my final destination, but I found myself near the indoor warm up arena. I saw a few waiting Civil War Union dressed horses and riders.
I turned around and saw servicemen leading a black horse.
A chestnut mare with military attire appeared and I stayed as they maneuvered the two horses for a photo op.
During the photo op a few people mentioned going to the Sergeant Reckless statue for pictures and I found myself joining the small entourage. Robin Hutton, the author of Sergeant Reckless, was a part of the group. Silly me forgot to bring my copy of the book to Breyerfest!
It was slow moving because people wanted to take photos with the mare. She was adorable, so why wouldn’t you? It gave me a chance to take pictures of her tack.
You can never have too many reference photos.
Eventually we made it to our destination. The Kentucky Horse Park unveiled their statue of Sergeant Reckless in 2018. The Kentucky Horse Park isn’t the only place to have a sculpture of the mare. Susan Bensema Young of Timaru Star II saw another statue in Virginia.
Not Sergeant Reckless posed next to the statue.
A Sgt. Reckless blanket was brought out and more photos ensued.
I’m happy I was in the right place at the right time to take these photos!
Kristian Beverly 