Morgen's Sculpting Journal

Oktoberfest off with a big bang! blinks

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:07:00 +0000

Well, for me it was sorta a typical day with some extra scrambling computer time thrown in... ;) but already one of my contests has gotten some entrants..woohoo! :) OH! ..mmm yeah... uh perhaps I should put the link to that blog here huh? (duh!)
Contest #1 Blog
(I'll go stick a more permanent-ish link to the side shortly I guess? I have a 2nd contest in the making atm)...

THEN there was some back and forth with Steph Michaud about her auction when I got home this evening... and then I was finally getting to dinner when the phone rang and Steph is like "uhm.. [all ominous sounding] uh, did you see the auction?". And all worried I go over and see that it's 'Closed'. [me thinking 'Closed' = bad... duh me again!] So Steph had to finally point out to me that it ended with a massive "Buy it Now".
So here is that auction (all 11 minutes worth of festing I suppose - lol!)
Annnd I know she won't mind if I steal a couple pics from it to post here for posterity (and saving her server some viewing drain to boot. ;)

I'm still in shock here. Seriously.

[adding on]
Btw, to the 10 other people who voted in my arbitrary test polls.. I'm not really sure what to do with that 1st one's 3 way tie.. but perhaps it's connected to the numeral 3 being a clear winner in the second. I'm at a loss about that too. But thank you for voting all the same. Your vote COUNTS MAN! (giggles) ;)

You guys are cracking me up! ;)

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:33:00 +0000

lol!

Sooooo I made those test polls over there down to the lower right hand side of this blog to see if I could really add as many poll choice options as possible... I left em there for ha ha's and lookie! People are voting! (giggles)

Ok. ;)

Well guyz.. there is a REAL blog now that you'll eventually vote for real on... For high stakes too!! (resiny goodness prizes!)... it's over here: http://kilbourn-contest1.blogspot.com/
There will be real polls there after entry submission closes on Oct 15th... Until then feel free carry on here I guess if you wish. hehehe! (how funny)

There's another blog coming too in honor of all this Oktoberfest madness.... Mums the word about that for now tho. ;)

Oh, and Steph Michaud posted the most lucious picture tease on MH$P: http://www.modelhorsesalespages.com/sales/view_details.asp?path=Gallery&id=598717

Ok, I can't stand it!!! Leaking a little excitement here! :D

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:55:00 +0000

Annnnnnnd that is all I'm going to say until Lisa and I work out some details... but eeeeee am I excited to spill! :D

(disclaiming of course that obviously the FULL disclosure will go to my yahoogroup on contest details etc etc.. as always. but there's no point in posting this there yet as it's just a TEASE!) ;)

Wasssuuuup! :)

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:47:00 +0000

1st: Butterfly update…

I will confirm it today but yesterday I noticed what definitely seemed to be a hole in the monarch butterfly chrysalis (how sad huh?!) :( … anyhow, Steph M had emailed me to say she got 3 in some sort of “kit” and 2 died… one because it couldn’t get free of the shell. Soooo yeah… I think that’s what happened. We had some super cold nights so I’d suspected that it was not likely to thrive in them (near frost nights).

2nd: BITTY update…

Lisa G mentioned in a phone conversation the other day that some folks were getting anxious and some thought it would be months longer. Not true! :) I tried to take some pics the other day but the camera I had at the time just wouldn’t focus on the wee spots I was trying to show. Essentially however it’s like working with wood. It’s porous and “grained” with lines because the material to create the mini 3D object from the digital data is built up in layers. These layers basically give you a final object that could be stained like wood. Which is why I primed and then have been using thinner to get the primer into the gaps. Anyhow, at first (I showed him to folks at a show) the “fuzzy” look (think balsa wood maybe?) hid a lot of detail however when I used solvents to flatten out the microscopic fuzz more detail than I expected popped out. Very pleased! I still have basically been smoothing out a material that works very similarly to balsa though through. I’ve been staying at the farm to save gas and working on him there… where I not be tempted by evil computer for the most part! Lol! On Friday thru the weekend it’s pandemonium there so this saves on gas… will get to car troubles too in a minute.

Anyhow, the bottom line with bitty bosco is that I’m really just smoothing out and touching up details here and there now. I will add on the mane and tail with thin epoxy (which is why I sanded them so flat) that will basically be a one-time effort to get right (it hardens in 3hrs but there’s really only a 1.5hr window to work in whatever your doing when it’s at a good consistency for hair). I expect by mid-October I should have him done. I’m pretty excited because I really dig him and honestly can’t wait to paint a few!

3rd Life intruding on art.. lol!

Let me just say (*#$@*(#&$ … cars.

The radiator sprung a sudden and serious leak last month which ultimately resulted in my car needing a ride itself (towed on a flatbed) back to the farm where my dear sweet boyfriend replaced the thing. The very next day this super special “AT Oil Temp” light started coming on when I was on a hill. To my boyfriend’s skill’s credit this is not uncommon apparently.. it could mean a # of things however…

I live in CT so it’s basically impossible for me to drive even the short 7miles to the farm without encountering 2 hills. By taking the flattest ones I’ve been able to avoid getting the warning light again though for the past few weeks. The service manual says (get this) if the light comes on simply avoid driving on steep grades or in stop and go traffic. … ! … Oh.. is that all? Ok, I ask you if you’ve ever been in a traffic jam. How exactly should you avoid this. Nevermind being stuck on a hill. You can’t coast these automatic transmission vehicles in neutral and have steering or brakes worth mentioning either…(small voice -> I’ve tried! It’s scary!!!). Soooo yeah. But I managed to avoid this until last night. I had to drop off a key across town and found myself in nighttime highway road work. No warning light though until I was returning home. However then it decided to come on in raging blinking flashing ominous screaming warning…!!!! Cargoingtoblowup!!! Cargoingtoblowup!!!

Sooooo it was a loooooong night trying to get home. Stopping. Engine off. Waiting. Distress. No one answering their phones… sigh… (at least there was no accompanying RPM or gear issues that I’ve heard of now after intensive googliation….). However I’ve just GOT to share the layman’s diagnostic I found on several sites on how to determine the exact meaning of this “AT oil temp” (AT stands for Automatic Transmission – not “at” as a normal human might assume…)… ready? This is funnier than finding buried “eggs” ( http://lifehacker.com/371083/top-10-software-easter-eggs ) in software..

In any event, the flashing AT Oil Temp light indicates that the Transmission Control Module (TCM) has detected a problem and is trying to tell you about it. Here's the procedure for interrogating the TCM for the 2002 Impreza (all variants). It's one of those secret handshake procedures reminiscent of the pre-OBD ECU days. I swear I'm not making this up.

1) Warm up the engine
2) Turn the ignition switch OFF
3) Turn the ignition switch ON
4) Start the engine
5) Drive the vehicle at speeds greater than 12 MPH
6) Stop the vehicle
7) Depress the brake pedal and move the gear selector to "1"
8) Turn the ignition switch to OFF
9) Turn the ignition switch to ON
10) Move the gear selector to "2"
11) Move the gear selector to "1"
12) Move the gear selector to "2"
13) Move the gear selector to "3"
14) Move the gear selector to "D"

Now examine the AT Oil Temp light again:

If the light's blinking 4 times a second, then the problem is most likely a power supply or ground problem.

If the light's blinking 2 times a second, then the TCM believes all is normal.

If the light's on solid or not on at all, then there's a problem with the light's circuit.

Since it came on the day after the radiator incident it’s pretty clear something is not connected right OR when the radiator got hot it clogged something. In any event… pray for me. I just bought hay and do NOT have a spare cent to donate to the dealership people who are typically the only ones who know these secret handshake’s meanings… and the last time I went they wanted $900 to replace the entire nozzle/tubing that you pump gas into -> for a “leak” that we determined was only in the gas cap. We saved $879 by simply buying a new gas cap. We did however have to remove the whole line and submerge it in a tank of water and pump air in… airtight.. ‘cept for the cap. (more language ->) (*#$#@$ dealership CROOKS!

Right, so this special issue here is probably something simple. I’m crossing fingers and toes all the same. I’m REALLY grateful I can tote my tiny bitty around to work on while my car is getting healed… and since I’m likely to be away from the computer while I get rides… I’m going to ask that Lisa tell whomever asked the timeline here for bitty. Since if it’s online I sure as heck haven’t had the time to search for that whilst looking up these fun secret code meanings to the mysterious Forester. :-/
!!!
Lol ;)

WIP and anticipated finish times! :)

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:46:00 +0000

I’m on my “lunch hour” here but I’m getting excited about some of these horses and wanted to share my in progress shelf of late… I just HAD to take a picture of where I left off last night..! :D

Plus poor Lisa has really hoped for some sort of clue as to when certain sales might happen and I'm rather flakey about these things so a visual really helps me...

Amanda and Maddie, yes those are your's! There are REALLY subtle details there on both resins that I'm over the moon about and you won't be disappointed... ;) For everyone else's benefit I've ID'ed the horses that actually will be for sale to the public:

The Indy has been in progress forever, eh? I really want him to be special though. He needs finishing details only now finally! :D Likewise for Vixen (like her wee feetsies need slightly less subtle stripes for example and her tail needs .. well help still - lol!). This Spinny here is a newish horse to me this summer but his color was a cinch as there is this pony I take care of who is that color and it was inspired! The dinky there is new too, he will be fleabitten like his large brother however I'm giving him less bites and some faded dappling. Right now the dappling only has been done. Bitty looks dreadful in his particolored coat there but he's smoother than I thought and I'm filling in spots by carefully washing off the primer with turpentine. The highly porous Objet resin is like working in balsa wood really. I'm thrilled that his detail is coming out so precise, I took a different approach with dinky and it took a LOT longer.

Righto, so anyhow I hope to have a painted horse or two for sale in the coming weeks.

And then another.. sooner rather than later... and so on.. ;)

I get strangely excited about silly things...! :)

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:16:00 +0000

Ok, ok, I know that after almost a MONTH (eek!) it's really time for a more legit update on stuff but this cool object has fascinated me for a couple of days now..

It's a Monarch Butterfly Chrysalis apparently!

I spied it as I was ducking under a fence one morning. I'm pretty sure I've shown it to everyone now... lol! It looks positively fantastical (faerie tale fantastical)... with these little beaded gold 'threads' running along it. :D

Aaaaaaaand in other news, aside from sunup to sundown mostly at the farm with short stints home for lunch if I can (and an hour in the studio).. I've been mostly toting around bitty and working on him where ever and whenever possible. When I break from that it's to get some paint layers down on other resins. Sporadic working like this is rather frustrating unfortunately but I really am getting somewhere. In the meantime it's wee things like this that bring tickle me silly! :D

Oh, and fair season has started so I've gotten out of a house a few nights. As well as having had a few nice bbq's at the farm. I'm loosing some weight but I don't want to jinx myself by talking about that. & I actually rode a horse the other day too in a really idiotic (overconfident) effort to get him to do the lead changes that his owner wasn't getting. I only got front end changes too (which is why she came to me for help - at least now tho I know what she's up against.. it does help to feel what's going on although mostly I am not the type who trains by doing it myself first). It makes me laugh b/c it really was idiotic of me ... I'm not really sure what mad skills I thought I had to do this after only riding a donkey in the past 2 years (I soo soo miss riding now) but it's always fun to be optimistic. ;) Seriously... I'm really daft these days but I'm having fun at least out there!! Aaaaand laughing at myself clearly! ;) I will add tho that it was disconcerting to have immediate hip soreness after getting off. I hope that mere stretching more will help. I kinda fear that I'm going to need my (10-20 years from now?) next horse to be a gaited horse with all gaits being really smooth... -sighs- Getting old sucks! :-/

More sculpting updates soon hopefully. Sorry to be offline so much but there really isn't much of anything for me to share yet!

Some close ups and status :)

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:04:00 +0000

Well I have gotten farther than I’d hoped but sadly I’m going to be really busy with outside work for the next 2 weeks. I hope to accomplish more now that I’ve got ‘the hang’ of the material better than when I worked on dinky duke. It’s a porous material and I’m only working on the right side at the moment. The mane and tail will come last. :) I managed to drop in to Baystate Live yesterday (I had some resins to pick up and drop off), but several people asked about the tail being so narrow, it won’t be in the end. I don’t plan to have it “fluffy” but somewhere in between (not as thick nor as hard to prep as large Bosco was...yes, I've heard your feedback!!). ;) The mane and tail will be done in epoxy and by then the horse will probably be primered at least once to ensure he’s smooth. (I will also probably take more close up photos because I'll need the camera's macros' to help me find flaws!).. Suffice to say he needs to be smoother and MUCH more crisp in detail (I’m sure the photos will tell you as much!) before I have hair details I might sand/chip off and have to redo? Hope that makes sense! Lol!

Wet sanding (solvent actually) helps see where the staggered Objet print lines remain.(Objet is the laser reproduction method used.. believe it or not it's one of the best methods available... currently... hrmph! lol!)

The main body is easy enough to smooth but even there there’s detail in larger contour emphasis that needs to come back in my estimation

Some crispness on the face now and I’ve hollowed out ONE nostril – lol!

Check out what I get to work with to start at this size!!

(and speaking of, I went to LARGE stablemate, or small Little Bit size. I’ve seen it called both frankly and haven’t had the time to go look up what 3.2” is in hobby scale terms.. he’s a shade smaller than dinky though and a lot less long of course!) ;)

And this last shows crisp detail but how the porous material needs a lot of filling in with primer/sanding/primer etc in order to get a piece worthy of casting. You can also see on his braciocephalis how those staggered lines are.. what a battle eh?! Tons of smoothing AND detailing clearly left to do!

Hot off the press!!! :)

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:26:00 +0000

eeee!!!!! :D

Soooo much work to do now though... trots off to studio. ;)
(he did wind up being large SM size - I'll give real ratios later on..!)

Virtual Bosco! :)

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:26:00 +0000

This just in...

There are more angles of course. This is how I get to "approve" of the digital files before they are printed out. Of course it'll be virtually flipped too:

They just look so nifty, eh? Mind you I am actually groaning about the TON of detail I'll have to recreate (resculpt with smaller tools). The hair I decided need to be smoothed before scanning so I could just resculpt it on anew with Apoxie Sculpt (or etch it... I want it to be REALLY fine lines and the scanning just won't produce that so there was no point in creating it fine before scanning). Things like feathers, eye details (like lids? yeah.. those are too fine for the scanning to reproduce too) etc etc.. with those nothing but good old fashioned wittling away and tiny work as you would with any mini is needed on the miniaturized version. And when all the detail is added THEN it goes off to a caster like Mountain View Studios to be cast as any other sculpture to resin would be.

Hope that made sense. I was bursting to share the screen shots!

Added on Sat afternoon for to answer Alicia and a few other's questions.. :)

(big files worth viewing to see how rough they are)

Duke's scan for "dinky duke":

What I'll get back with bitty too:

and what I'll have to get it to in terms of smoothness and detail before it's ready to send out:

Actually, I'd like to pack in even more detail or emphasize it more this time. Always trying to improve on things ya know.. :) Anyhow, since a bazillion dinky dukes are out there you can see that the lines are crisp in spots, it just takes time (almost like resculpting the whole final stages!) to smooth and then add crisp details obviously. :)

So far so good! :D

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:16:00 +0000

I * LOVE * THIS * SCULPTURE. :D

Sarah Mink really outdid herself with this gal's face imo... color just flows on so nice and real and you hardly have to do anything as a painter imo to draw out life. Just pick a shade and apply and viola! A little wee horsie!

So far I've only applied one coat of oils here. The shine is partly because I've used a slow aperture flash setting. I have no idea how to use that thing after 9 years. Isn't that sad? lol! Anyhow, it's in the painting case drying and I wasn't about to bust out with the real lights and move her too much.

I'm making a base too. I won't permanently attach her but she is so small and fine that tipping is easy. If her someday owner wants to, a tiny dab of sticky wax would help prevent it. Plus she just *needs* a dramatic stand imo. :D

Now I need to wait forever for her to dry more before I can get to the second coat of oils. -sighs- :(
She is SO much fun to paint... the torture of oils! argh!!

Work smarter..

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:17:00 +0000

Have you watched the move “Office Space”? There’s this saying repeated throughout the movie about having a “case of the Monday’s” that’s pretty entertaining. In a related vein, try telling someone with perfectionist tendencies like me to “work smarter not harder”. ;) Really. Try it with your favorite overly self-critical artist friends. Duck after you say this. :D

Seriously though, when you do this sort of thing for a living you really seriously MUST work smarter. Each work is an endeavor to balance the airy-fairy idealism of what most perceive fine art to be.. with the brutal cold fact that we are striving to make improvements and yet not invest our lifetimes on one piece in fiddling ad infinitum. I can forever fiddle with the best of em. My artist friends and I all remind each other not to get sucked into the vortex time warp of the never ending work. It’s one thing with a sculpture to put that extra month (or year – coughcough) in. The sales for castings will only pick up the pace as time goes on and the work gets out if all that extra time was well spent (and the converse of that is dire to sculptor to overcome in future sales if a sloppy sculpt escapes the studio). However with individual painted pieces this isn’t so. Sometimes they never get viewed at shows and yet they are a precious addition to a prized coveted collection. I’m not talking about prices. I’m talking about the portfolio that is what gets to shows around the world. So it’s a far bigger gamble for the painting artist to be low-output. (tiny voice -> like me!).

Do I wish I could create amazingly detailed works faster and faster and still maintain my personal hyper-detailing style? Sure. Not entirely realistic unless I’m getting the hang of the media. THIS said however, (big sly grin), I am getting the hang of it in some respects. And for my wee tiny Vixen casting I’ve departed from a paint-over style to a blend-throughout all coats style. This is her in primer.

Red and white primers. So that the final work preserves the crazy insane detail this miniscule piece has. I’m simply stoked! :D

Already I’m not dealing with color blending issues typically seen with appy blankets. I loath the painted on white look and strive (succeed or fail) to really overcome it. And man do I love the silly miniscule hair details. There aren’t any of those yet. She’ll be given several oil layers over this. Ah but the macroscopic view is already inspiring to me and this only makes the crazy close ups (the ones like on that Mindy I’d done earlier this year that can only be seen by camera macros or magnifying glasses) just that much more fun to add in the end. Snoopy dance of joyjoy!

Chestnut mare beware! Heh heh.. (that’s not her name but that’s certainly her motto!)

ps I will (when done) sell her in the usual way. I give the heads up in advance only to my yahoogroup peeps. I haven't decided on the venue. I'm pretty sure I won't be using eBay for a long long time again. I was looking for something for sale there the other day and searching even by it's name and keywords in the auction wouldn't bring it up. Nor would sorting by the price it was currently at. Bad times with the DSR rating system. Not a fan over here.

Guess I should submit Hazel for a Legion of Merit Award?

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:59:00 +0000

I have never really thought about those but someone pointed out to me that the award points are cumulative. Anyhow, this past weekend she got first (yay!) at Gold Country Model Horse Show in Sacramento, CA. in American WB under judge Sharon Carabajal. So she now has 9 NAN cards from across the land in halter and perf. Hmmm.

THANK YOU Vanessa Dahl for showing her there for me!!

Hazel’s next stop is in Nebraska with veteran proxy shower Diana Parker. :) Diana has 3 upcoming shows in the next 3 months. I haven’t managed to coordinate performance as well (I stink at coordination!). In fact there was someone who’d offered to show her at Stone’s show in KY during Breyerfest and I TOTALLY dropped the ball there. Duh.

Well anyhow, I have to wait until some cards show up but how fun is that? :) I really need to set up another performance shower because Hazel has told me she would only be honored if she could earn a “Versatility” award. ;) She’s a competitive minded woman you know. Lol! :D

Update on the little Lippitt fellow (was "Rocky")

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:48:00 +0000

[added on later] moved front legs fwd and fiddled with some other spots to accentuate today! :) plus photoshopation of course there ;)

I think it's almost been a year now since I shared any photos of this little dude.. maybe? I dunno ut since then I really redid a lot of his body type and he's departed quite a bit from the ASB/tube shaped show-style Morgan that the real horse I knew named Rocky was. I LOVE the Ethan Allen type Morgan.

It's funny b/c the proportions didn't change much at all, just where the beef was laid down on the sculpture did.

That left hind is a nightmare to get right. It cracks me up too b/c I have TONS upon TONS of photos of Morgans (thank you Tom B for all those wonderful magazines!!!) with their legs exactly like this and it's still hard to get. Right now the pastern and hoof are set on wrong and the hoof angle is off. I moved it around some and thus have to recenter and shape all that... I won't really address it full until I'm satisfied with where the muscle groups all are and the details of their shapes are all carved in.

Oh yeah, lol -> and make sure all the measurements still stayed the same. ;)

Speaking of details, I soooo soo can't wait to get to the ones on this guy. The little plump neck wrinkles. The wavy tail and mane (love thick wavy Morgan manes and tails).

He's large classic or very small traditional. 7 inches or so at the ears.

So these are the fun things I've been working on while Lisa handles orders and time payments! YAY! :D After nearly 3 months of almost absolutely no studio work (because of the night job sleep and daytime t-storm watches), this feels so wonderfully productive.

Take the horse in-progress photo as it is thought iwth a major grain of salt - he's 2D practically! He's got almost nothing on any of the other sides. lol! ;) Lots more to do. And with "bitty b" being anticipated back in a few weeks I won't touch him after that until "bitty" is done. Oh but I have been painting up a storm too. :)

Off to slather up in sunscreen and work outside for a while now... can't wait to get back to this! :D

Aww heck. I'll throw in a REALLY hard to grasp flash shot too (flash takes away all shape with apoxie sculpt sans primer):

Sneak peek of "bitty bosco" prototype ...

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:32:00 +0000

He's been more or less wrapped up like this for a while. (small voice here - hahaha) Most of my hemming and hawing has been about the financial risks of fronting the chunk of capital into the scanning and then needing a lot of time afterwards to refine the miniaturized product to be as exciting as the original (one hopes!). Sooooo... since they are rather big changes to some of his "look" I do think I ought to throw him out for input before I rush him off to the scanning company. I could do that as early as next week so please, if you spot something really awry please lmk asap tx! ;)

What's going on??? Why is he different at all???

Here's my thoughts & reasonings on that:

Point #1 every scale has it's pro's and con's from the aesthetic to the technical. Aesthetically 'in theory' something should look identical small as to big (if you are skilled enough to recreate the detail at that particular scale). That being said, in reality, on a shelf or on a table, the two have very different looks strangely sometimes. Human real life depth perception is simply going to relay to the brain "it looks a little different!" even if it's not... just like the statue of liberty model in your hand might look different when standing close to the real life statue.. hopefully that made some sense?

Moreso however I was thinking of lighting... In this case I have a horse who's already tilting his head into shadow on his "show" side. So when you look at this in a mini version, (especially in a dimly lit area), you'll have an even harder time seeing anything of coloration about the face. So I made about 8 different cuts into the neck around the poll area to tilt the head back to a more upright position. :) As I say in the comments, personally I like it or I wouldn't have done it.. although it might VASTLY change the "look" of the sculpture in other folk's eyes. Now would be the time for me to know this I guess... ;)

Point #2 real world technical issues. Lazer scanning tucked away areas is a very tricky matter. This is actually why I picked Duke first - his legs are apart and the tail doesn't create hidden zones like the original El Embosco's tail does. The tail really is tricky there, the fact that his hind feet are pretty close in his prancing also compounds the complications to be overcome. Lastly, in the mini version casting resins with tricky tails is simply hard.. it could require a whole nother mold section.. and the more mold sections you need the more shifting and distortion of the final product you introduce (nevermind seams!!). Oh, and of course last lastly - lol! - I have prepped more than a few large Bosco's tails and thighs and lemme tell ya, I wasn't thinking it would be a great idea to do it in a fraction of the size (hard to get at!).

So there you go. Some of my reasons.

I'm going to present everything in a little set of pictures with comments on them to clarify better I hope. I would REALLY like to hear of any dire reactions/concerns people have before I proceed forward. I've been hearing cries for "bitty bosco" since before there was a "dinky duke".. ;) All the same, I'm not one to rush fwd on this sort of thing without really addressing known and anticipated technical issues as thoroughly as possible first.

And on to the show. :D
(click to see enlargements)

I have the comments turned on now but they are "moderated" so I have to approve of them to come through. If you want to say something privately - just ask that I not post it. You can submit thoughts anonymously too. And of course I can be written at morgen@one-horse.net.

Thanks for looking and wish me a trouble-free journey through the rest of this! :) It get's exciting (in a nerve wracking way sometimes!!) from here...! (8-o
;)

Congrats to the 2008 NAN winners!! :)

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:30:00 +0000

Ok whew! I think I've gotten most of them linked up to the right pictures. That's most of the fun right? :) I'm so tickled to see such a variety of winners this year (in divisions) and a variety of painters. What a surprise this was for me to stumble across the names I recognized from photos sent to me and just by word of mouth getting back to me. I may not have everyone so please don't be offended - I also may have something mixed up here too. I decided to just link to webshots albums rather than try to credit photographer's names. Plus they are user names for a reason (not everyone wants their full name there). If you'd like credit I'd be happy to stick that in too.Please send any corrections on and I'll try to get to them asap (mind you it took me since Tues to get this up so... mmm.. I'll try to be fast anyhow!) ;)

Sincerely though, kudos to everyone and thank you so much for bringing my works to the Nationals!!!! And on to the fun horsies (with links to pics!!)....

[update Thurs July 24th - I've added 2 more on to the bottom now & thank you SO MUCH to those sending along these results!!] :)
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Performance Winners

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Toby (#2927) owned by Barbara DiAnnibella
Painted by Sommer Prosser (view horse)
Class 20029: Champ Natural Trail
Class 20107: Res Champ CM Hunter Over Fences - Stock/Other Types

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Satanic Panic (#5469) owned by Robin Smith
Painted by Beth Hoffert (view horse)

Class 20121: CM Dressage - 3rd Level and Above

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Clever Hans (#3976) owned by Ann Harris
Painted by Ann Harris (view horse)
Class 20121: CM Dressage - 3rd Level and Above

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Goldiva (#4167) owned by Jody Hollenbeck
Painted by Carol Williams (view horse)
Class 20032: CM Western Pleasure - Other Type

Class 20091: CM Non-Speed Game - Other

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Halter Winners

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Ahote (#1748) owned by Jody Hollenbeck
Painted by Sonya Johnson (view horse)

Class 6026: Mustang - TRAD

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The Bounty Hunter (#1665), owned by Gail Aspinwall
Painted by Billie Campbell (view horse)
Class 6037: Spanish TRAD/CL

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Sikon (#2554), owned by Nicole Reid Painted by ??? (view horse)
He's FOR SALE TOO on Auction Barn now!! (click here)
Class 6037: Spanish TRAD/CL

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Tris (#1112) owned by Vicky Norris
Painted by Kathy McKenzie (view horse)
Class 6047: AR/OS Breed Halter - British pony

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Inside Information (#2717), owned by Tracy Helling
Painted by Caroline Boydston (view horse)
Class 6074: AR/OS Breed Halter - German Warmblood

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Anika (#1073), customized and painted by Joanna Inman (view horse)
Class 6071: Champion Pure/Part Heavy/Stock/Spanish Pony

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Tic Tac (#1754) owned by Jody Hollenbeck
Sculpted by Ann Harris, painted by Morgen Kilbourn (view horse)
Class 6072: Part/Grade Pony

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Figaro's Hot Spot (#5442) owned by Heather Visser
Painted by Kathy Mackenzie (view horse)

Class: 6051: Reserve Champion European Warmblood

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Flick and Swish (#3054) owned by Leesa Miller
Painted by Morgen (view horse) [my second artist's proof to show at NAN, yay!]
Class 6070: Other Purebred Pony

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Fairlane's Juniper (#4035) owned by Melissa Hart
Painted by Carolyn Smith (view horse)
Class 6047: AR/OS Breed Halter - British pony

~~~~~~~~~~ & Deputed Duke's Debute in OF China Halter! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Style In Stereo (#3579), owned by Lisa Sents
(view horse and a gratuitous head pic for fun too)

Class 3016: OFC Breed Halter - Other Pure/Part/Grade Sport/Carriage

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Workmanship Winners

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Felix Felicis (#1126) owned by Kellye Bussey
Painted by Karen Beeson (view horse)
Class 615: LB/SM Paint Pattern

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Flame (#1890) owned by Corrie McDermott
Painted by Danelle Gatcombe (view horse)
Class 622: SM/LB Black/Bay/Chestnut

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Rio Bravo (#7272), owned & painted by Laura Skillern (view horse)

Class 601: Champion SM/LB Appaloosa Pattern

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Calico Jack (#7273), owned and painted by Laura Skillern (view horse)

Class 615: LB/SM Paint Pattern

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Anika (#1073), customized and painted by Joanna Inman (view horse)
Class 619: SM/LB Solid/Other Color

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[edit/add on 7:26am Mon July 12th]
Someone directed my attention to this cute little fellow winning too. No idea who he is however!

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[edit/add on 1:45pm Mon July 12th] another add on :)
in halter:
Back For More (#6593) owned by Lori Hageman
Painted by Sheila Anderson (view horse)
Class 6014: AR/OS Breed Halter - Sport Type
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[edit/add on 1:20pm Tues July 12th] another add on :)
in halter:
Dawson (#3492), owned by Diana Parker
Painted by by Rita Baker (view horse)
Class 6014: AR/OS Breed Halter - Sport Type
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[edit/add on 1:20pm Thurs July 24th] another add on :)
in halter:
Midsummer Knights Dream (#7431), owned & painted by Liesl Dalpe (view horse)
Class 6070: AR/OS Breed Halter - Other Purebred Pony
in workmanship:
Class 6070: AR/OS Breed Halter - Other Purebred Pony
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[edit/add on 9:04 pm Sunday July 27th]
Another add on :) also an artist's proof who's show name I never knew. Congrats Melissa and I'm thrilled to see you still own him! :D (Melissa won him in a silent auction at my Artisan's Gallery booth sale two years ago)
in workmanship:
Skogsruss (#4227) owned by Melissa Hart
(view horse) from my website AP galleries
Class 619: AR/OS Workmanship Champion SM/LB Solid/Other Color

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[edit/add on 5:42 pm Tues July 29th] another add on :)
in halter:
Almost Illegal (#5123), owned by Bobbi Devine
Painted by by Jessica Fry (view horse)
Class 6037: Spanish TRAD/CL
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[it's kinda like winning myself so it's been a very exciting week for me in between jobs when I've gotten chances to check & look things up!]

Congrats again everyone! :)

Picture pages picture pages.. up at long last!

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:25:00 +0000

Chipping away at the website updates here…

http://www.artbymorgen.com/gallery.asp

I’ve added 19 new pics to the winners gallery – some at long last that came in after the weekend updates but that we older show results. Some that I dug out of the corners of my in-box that I've missed.. I even remembered to put them in order so the newer ones (well newly added at least) are first ...that would make more sense for the viewer, huh? As always, if there’s a mistake (misspelling, anything!) in there PLEASE let me know! Tx! (morgen@one-horse.net)

Oh SHOOT! I haven’t announced it here but yeah… my website has a whole new look and fun “paypal” buttons (and easier ordering info) on Hazel’s page thanks to the help of my friends..! And with that, I gotta run for today..

[addenum to last!] Ok, color me INGRATE (blushes)

noreply@blogger.com (Morgen) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:33:00 +0000

I left of a HUGE update earlier today (yesterday I guess now) when I posted all that below. I owe some people some heavy duty thank you’s!!!

I have to laugh b/c I spent all this time going wild and inadvertently left out the more important half (imo!) of my items I needed to get to… lets start with thank you’s ...

from NWC; Mel Miller – bless you for your help at the last minute with EVERYTHING.

From DKL; Heather Roell, you are SUCH a saint and really too sweet to be so concerned. It all worked out! J I had a great time talking to you too & hear it was a good show so RELAX! J

From HVC; Jackie Arns performance tackaholic! This woman not only accepted my request to proxy Janice’s Hazel in performance & halter (at the 11^th hour) since I got drafted, she did it in style and really pulled out all the stops. To be honest, I don’t think performance is about the horse so much as it is about having the tack on right and the scene set up correct (which is why I don’t do it). ROCK on woman! Thank you!!!

Jackie’s little “Otto” that I painted for her a few years back now also didn’t do so shabby the following weekend at NEMHC… ;)

Another winner I spied in the top results @ NEMHC British Pony Breeds (18 entries)

Bruce (SMB “Otto” painted by me and owned by Jackie Arns) placed first in breed and workmanship under Jen Al-Beik and Sonya Johnson and took home a Top Ten in Workmanship :)

… I didn’t spy any pics showing him WITH the ribbons but here he is getting ready to fight the bigger fellows I guess :) http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2538460230055238779qBELJf (added on! :) I just got this sent to me from Jackie--> Pic of Bruce at RXR this past year!)

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Also at NEMHC (I really REALLY didn’t look at the tables but I did recognize this name in the results!) J is that Ann Harris’s always dapper “Clever Hans” didn’t do so bad in a class of 22 “European Warmblood” entries for both halter and workmanship either imo. .. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2515042920055238779xMKaGk ;) (I so dig him and he has gone “all the way” in performance I hear too?)

Also of note for a winner is that at Hudson Valley Classic..

Thoroughbred/Standardbred (11 entries)

Flame (CMc) owned by Corrie McDermott & painted by Danelle Gatcombe (pics of him here http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc35/intothesunstudio/new%20models/flame005.jpg and here; http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc35/intothesunstudio/new%20models/flame004.jpg ) took first in workmanship under judge Karen Pajack

And my last thank you is that I really need to thank LISA again (miss Gruetter is a world of help too) for showing Vanessa’s proxy horse there at HVC. And also for her help with a lot of last minute things that weekend... you know m'dear - thank you! :D

(((HUGS to everyone for their help!!!))) J

Righto, so I wanted to get this up tonight asap.. even though it’s a little choppy and might not make sense when I look at it tomorrow. But MAN did I feel bad about leaving off the thank you’s most especially! Yipes! (these things come to you when you are FAR away from computers of course) ;)