Mold: Leaping Horse
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Leaping Horse #19
I grew up reading old horse books like Black Tiger and Blaze Face and there’s something about a midwest pony that just yanks me back into those long lazy summers! This leaping pony was painted to a dark dapple gray with a very minimal green background and historically inaccurate warpaint. The markings are based on things…
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Leaping Horse #18
Sure, chestnut mares might have a bad rap, but don’t let the cute blue eyes fool you, this little palomino murder pony is out for blood! And it’s easy to see why… she’s been tumbling around in the ‘to be painted’ her for years! I finally finished her up during the April 2021 spring cleaning…
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Leaping Horse #16
Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… THUNDER PONY! 😂 Sometimes when casting with plaster things don’t come out quite right. In this case, the cast was much too thin and would most likely have broken when someone tried to move it. Thus this little guy got a nifty wooden background…
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Leaping Horse #12
Not every broken cast makes it out of the trash bin, but this little fella made it all the way to the beach! The original plaster and wood glue cast took a dive off my workbench back in 2015. I glued what was left of him down to the wooden speech bubble, added a faux-sand…
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Leaping Horse #17
This handsome fella is a matte black tobiano with blue eyes and a pinked nose on a background of glossy blue pseudo-mountains! I started painting this little guy in October 2016 and five long years later, I finished him up in April 2021 as part of my spring cleaning jumpstart. He’s been sealed in multiple…
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Leaping Horse #007
Need an escape from mundane cubicle life? Behold, the perfect steed to ferry your important photos or notes cross the magnetic fields! Now not every office can pull off a bit of equine whimsy, but this little gal is just as happy holding shopping lists and report cards in the kitchen as she is herding…
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Leaping Horse #006
Every so often plaster casts don’t come out of the mold quite right– but that just means I get to play around with them! This little guy is a true OOAK (one of a kind) as his failed cast was hand painted over with additional plaster to create the horse-shaped blob of metallic whimsy that…
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Leaping Horse #005
Behold, the perfect steed to do battle on any fridge or magnetic whiteboard! This little guy was the first of my non-resin, non-present copies of this mold. I sculpted the original leaping horse out of Sculpey and created a silicone mold. I cast him using a plaster of paris and wood glue mixture and additional layers of…