Look how good I do!

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 Sticking with a resolution for a whole two days in a row.

Clear masking isolates the horses' legs from the water, allowing me to scrub out highlights.  The texture work on the horses is done with a toothbrush.. *spatter spatter*.. and a sponge.  In person it looks rather like a bird egg, which I like.  It needs more darks, though.. I am such a

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By order of importance - good grief, a tray!? You ARE sick. I sure as hell hope you didn't work today, nor plan on doing anything more strenuous than talk about Olin tonight and tomorrow. Remember, I am not so far away that I can't show up and be totally threatening.

Thinking about the opium scene, all written in that wonderful, lush first person of yours, gives me a warm, fizzy, happy feeling; and as the horses need to thoroughly dry for a bit anyway (Claybord has a surface which is literally clay.. it gets a wee bit soft when wet, and won't accept pencil until it's completely dried and hardened again), and so I will sketch either Erestor or Olin. Mmmmm. <3 You know what? I could sketch either of them in a tree. Best of everything

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I haven't met very many ponies, but they do seem wonderful - have you ever known any Welsh Cobs? They sound fantastic.

Here is a photo of a woman riding a Shetland Pony over a wee bitty cross-country course.. the pony is owned by the same woman that breeds the Welshes I just mentioned; the 'micro-steeds' are what she bought for pleasure riding.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/chromelotus/DSC00535.jpg

Compliments on my painting will be nibbled up and dunked in my coffee and in general make me very very happy. I think the horses are a bit dull just right now, but I'm working on it.

RIGHT NOW, however, I am reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and thinking about opium. ... that isn't a statement that should be taken out of context, is it?

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IT IS VERY GOOD!! I just got into the third section - John Uskglass - and it just, just.. worms its way into my consciousness! Lushly imagined, but written in such a curious, dry way.

I am boggling a little over the show-jumping miniature horses - why? That's not quite as useless as the showjumping rabbits (surely someone has shown you that video), but it's close. You're right, though, it would be the gig to have.

The Welsh breeding / Shetland riding chick I know is in the UK, where they take their Welshes Seriously. And the Shetlands. Both can be ridden by adults; she breeds.. Section... D? The large ones. Section A is the classic pony hunter mount, no? Either way: I like this plan. Sell tiny ponies to women with large checking accounts; spend our days in the shade of a sprawling oak, comparing sketches and stories.