NaMoPaiMo

Okay, so this was an awesome package to receive. It’s Van Gogh, the medallion for NaMoPaiMo. This is my first medallion, and it’s even more awesome that my first one is tied to NaMoPaiMo. He was sculpted by Kylee Parks and was sent by Jennifer Buxton. Thanks again!

My NaMoPaiMo model is back to prepping. I couldn’t get all of the paint off of him, so some sanding has been needed. As I put on more and more layers on he started to get a green tint to him. It got to the point to where I couldn’t ignore it anymore, so back to the drawing board it was. While I’m sad he has been stripped, I learned a lot with oils. I don’t foresee him being done in time to be a winner, but I’m happy with being challenged to do a color I haven’t tried in years with a new medium.

Even though painting has been more of a learning experience than an actual finished model, tack making has been going well. Here’s a nameplate halter tree. I’ve been making donation halters for NaMoPaiMo since January. I put the last nameplate on the other day, so they’re in the mail!

I’ve really enjoyed reading and learning from NaMoPaiMo, even if it was more of a good try than actually finishing!

A few weeks ago I put out a post seeing if anyone would be interested in a NaMoPaiMo party at my house. Local hobbyists responded and the Namopaimo party was born.

My neighbor caught wind of it and offered to cook us dinner and dessert (lasgna, chicken parm, and a delicious butter cake with pineapple icing). The night before my mom and I made room for a new worktable.

And then Saturday was the painting day. In total there was five of us: Zoe Hatgi of Hatgi Horse Stuff, Susan Bensema Young of Timaru Star II, Maddie Klein, and Lizzie Mace.

Before Maddie and Lizzie arrived Susan, Zoe and I did a bit of playing with tack.

Susan brought a bit of her tack museum. This time she had a Hanna Bear, Erin Corbet

Evelyn Munday

and her Elk saddle.

Zoe is also a tack maker so she brought some of her english saddles.

I would have been easy to spend the whole time playing with tack. We realized that we needed to have a tack making day during April (National Tack Making Month) and started painting.

I was a wet and dreary Saturday. It would have halted spraying if I hadn’t bought this spray tent from Woodcraft (they have them on sale until the end of Feb!).

My model for the month is this. He’s a custom Harley D Zip I remade. He has a resulted mane and a lower headset. He’s supposed to some sort of palomino with white markings being determined by what needs covered up. 🙂

Everyone had their own method to paint their pony. I initially used oils, wiped if off, went to airbrush and then moved to pastels.

Zoe slept over and Lizzy stayed late, so after running out of matte spray we piled into my car to make it to Michaels before they closed. We painted for the rest of the night.

This was so much fun to do. Thanks for coming you guys!

And thanks to Jennifer Buxton for creating this event!

Kristian Beverly

It Twas A Good Try

NaMoPaiMo Party