The day of cooking
Today shall be a day of cooking. We're going to try and have most of the food ready for tomorrow by the end of the day today and the turkey will start cooking tonight. It'll be our first Thanksgiving in the house. I'm a little excited.
Yesterday Mom and I took Ruby and Dakota out. It was Ruby's first time out on trail (at least with us). Chris asked that I wear my vest (yes, I have one of those vests they wear during cross-country and other equestrian sports) as I was going to be in my english saddle as the western draft saddle we have is a 17" seat and, well ... that's just a bit too big for me. When I rode in it last week it left my seatbones sore for sevral days (which meant that my lesson on Friday was less than enjoyable and I couldn't get quite the deep seat that I wanted or needed). Anyway, point being that since the English saddle has no horn and "isn't as secure" I wore the vest. I have just as good of a seat English, Western, or Bareback (though I do have to admit I'm a little less secure bareback).
It was a little sad as with the vest on I couldn't reach the cantle to get up. It restricts my shoulder and chest movement a bit (and doing something like a crunch is just unthinkable) so I had to use the wheel well of the trailer to get on. It's a bit difference riding Ruby vs. Kash. The mare is just huge. She's about 16.3hh and, as a draft, is about twice as broad as my boy.
The poor lady was dripping sweat when we pulled her out of the trailer. I think she was a bit nervous, that and it was in the 80s (the trailer is fairly open though).
Ruby was very alert and looking around, but her "nervous" consists of a high head and erect ears and that's pretty much it. Her feet don't move much. Once I got on her and we headed out she set into this huge, swinging walk. A couple of times she skipped up into the trot, but it didn't take much to bring her back down. I think part of it was that she was pushing herself so far forward in the walk that she was breaking into the trot. After a bit I let Mom and Dakota lead and as soon as Dakota was infront Ruby's head dropped and her ears dropped to the side, perfectly relaxed and content to cruise at Dakota's pace.
She didn't like being down in the washes too much, too narrow, I think.
We swapped back and forth with Dakota and Ruby being in the lead. Every time Ruby took the lead her ears would go up and she'd start into a nice, swinging walk. At one point I picked up the reins, just to see how slow I could get her to go. It was quite a good exercise and made me really think about my seat and position, using it more than the reins to encourage her to drop back and slow down.
Overall, good ride. Now Chris has no excuse about going out on trail *grin.* I think we might take Ruby and Kash out on Friday. Which reminds me that I might want to contact Kim and cancle my training for Friday.
An experimental drawing of Emidar Rohkain, Maibenti's cousin. And yes, the shoulder marking does mean something. That symbol in particular reflects his as being a Shaman/Healer/Spiritual Guide in the Ro'ain Clan. The number of radiating marks on the outside gives you an idea of his rank within that group (from zero to ten).
Initially both of his eyes were yellow, but I got the distinct impression while working on this piece that the left one needed to be blue.
An experiment in Painter 8 using the chuky oil pastels. It's all on one layer, because I'm layer-phobic. (The actual file is two layers, one with the skech and one with the color, but what you see here is all one layer sans the watermark.)
I will replace this with a higher-quality image at a later date.
We had a texture assignment for my 2d design class. We were to seperate the space into sections and use render both real and made up textures in those sections. I chose to do a stained glass-like image of the six Mineit frineir gods.
Tiryu is the blue-robed figure welcoming a new spirit into its body.
Kabba is dismissing an old spirit, sending it to the life beyond. He is also known as the non-guiding spirit as he does not guide those in mortal life.
The other four are represented by the elements. Yov (m) is Fire, Dohn (m) is responsible for wind and weather, Kodra (f) deals with water, and Muhrnet pertains to earth.
This was done using the set of 24 Staedtler Ergosoft colored pencils. I was trying to prove something to myself. That I could work with such a limited pallete using colored pencils and that I was capable of rendering something very realisticly as well as being able to portray a subject somewhat abstractly. I believe that it was extremely successful and I'm quite happy with it.
Each new section was hair-raising and challenging to deal with. I do not habitually render many of the things that are in this piece. Just as a note the robes of Kabba and Tiryu are made up of rocks and minerals and the background is supposed to be an agate (type of quartz). Part of me wants to go back and really darken up the background, making it rich and slick and setting it in, dark and somewhat greyed so that the dieties really stand out behind it. Unfortunately I don't have the time for that.
I need someone to commission me. I need direction for my art once my class is over in two weeks.
I think I might actually start using tags ... maybe.
Yesterday Mom and I took Ruby and Dakota out. It was Ruby's first time out on trail (at least with us). Chris asked that I wear my vest (yes, I have one of those vests they wear during cross-country and other equestrian sports) as I was going to be in my english saddle as the western draft saddle we have is a 17" seat and, well ... that's just a bit too big for me. When I rode in it last week it left my seatbones sore for sevral days (which meant that my lesson on Friday was less than enjoyable and I couldn't get quite the deep seat that I wanted or needed). Anyway, point being that since the English saddle has no horn and "isn't as secure" I wore the vest. I have just as good of a seat English, Western, or Bareback (though I do have to admit I'm a little less secure bareback).
It was a little sad as with the vest on I couldn't reach the cantle to get up. It restricts my shoulder and chest movement a bit (and doing something like a crunch is just unthinkable) so I had to use the wheel well of the trailer to get on. It's a bit difference riding Ruby vs. Kash. The mare is just huge. She's about 16.3hh and, as a draft, is about twice as broad as my boy.
The poor lady was dripping sweat when we pulled her out of the trailer. I think she was a bit nervous, that and it was in the 80s (the trailer is fairly open though).
Ruby was very alert and looking around, but her "nervous" consists of a high head and erect ears and that's pretty much it. Her feet don't move much. Once I got on her and we headed out she set into this huge, swinging walk. A couple of times she skipped up into the trot, but it didn't take much to bring her back down. I think part of it was that she was pushing herself so far forward in the walk that she was breaking into the trot. After a bit I let Mom and Dakota lead and as soon as Dakota was infront Ruby's head dropped and her ears dropped to the side, perfectly relaxed and content to cruise at Dakota's pace.
She didn't like being down in the washes too much, too narrow, I think.
We swapped back and forth with Dakota and Ruby being in the lead. Every time Ruby took the lead her ears would go up and she'd start into a nice, swinging walk. At one point I picked up the reins, just to see how slow I could get her to go. It was quite a good exercise and made me really think about my seat and position, using it more than the reins to encourage her to drop back and slow down.
Overall, good ride. Now Chris has no excuse about going out on trail *grin.* I think we might take Ruby and Kash out on Friday. Which reminds me that I might want to contact Kim and cancle my training for Friday.
An experimental drawing of Emidar Rohkain, Maibenti's cousin. And yes, the shoulder marking does mean something. That symbol in particular reflects his as being a Shaman/Healer/Spiritual Guide in the Ro'ain Clan. The number of radiating marks on the outside gives you an idea of his rank within that group (from zero to ten).
Initially both of his eyes were yellow, but I got the distinct impression while working on this piece that the left one needed to be blue.
An experiment in Painter 8 using the chuky oil pastels. It's all on one layer, because I'm layer-phobic. (The actual file is two layers, one with the skech and one with the color, but what you see here is all one layer sans the watermark.)
I will replace this with a higher-quality image at a later date.
We had a texture assignment for my 2d design class. We were to seperate the space into sections and use render both real and made up textures in those sections. I chose to do a stained glass-like image of the six Mineit frineir gods.
Tiryu is the blue-robed figure welcoming a new spirit into its body.
Kabba is dismissing an old spirit, sending it to the life beyond. He is also known as the non-guiding spirit as he does not guide those in mortal life.
The other four are represented by the elements. Yov (m) is Fire, Dohn (m) is responsible for wind and weather, Kodra (f) deals with water, and Muhrnet pertains to earth.
This was done using the set of 24 Staedtler Ergosoft colored pencils. I was trying to prove something to myself. That I could work with such a limited pallete using colored pencils and that I was capable of rendering something very realisticly as well as being able to portray a subject somewhat abstractly. I believe that it was extremely successful and I'm quite happy with it.
Each new section was hair-raising and challenging to deal with. I do not habitually render many of the things that are in this piece. Just as a note the robes of Kabba and Tiryu are made up of rocks and minerals and the background is supposed to be an agate (type of quartz). Part of me wants to go back and really darken up the background, making it rich and slick and setting it in, dark and somewhat greyed so that the dieties really stand out behind it. Unfortunately I don't have the time for that.
I need someone to commission me. I need direction for my art once my class is over in two weeks.
I think I might actually start using tags ... maybe.