Tuesday - January 15, 2008
I'm a Holsteiner sport horse breeder and equestrian artist in Virginia. I've been breeding horses for over 20 years and went to art school at Virginia Tech. Studied with Mary Ann Harmon, Janet Niewald and Ray Kass. The Virginia landscape is stunning. Throw some horses in the middle of it and it is absolutely perfect!
I use my horses as models every day; studying joints while I'm feeding or turning out. I also have worked as a graphic artist (equestrian magazines) for 8 years and do the same as I digitally extract legs etc from the background noise. It's very tedious work but could not replace it for studying tendons, bones etc. The daily hands on keeps the aura of their motion, thoughts, balance constantly in my awareness. I often find myself just watching them and how peaceful their days are when we aren't buggering them to do something. One of my favorite models was Flighty Birthday xx; a 36 year old TB mare that died a few years ago now. She had the most shapely neck I have ever seen. High out of her shoulder from a perfect back. I have her son here that was to be a fancy fancy show hunter that go kicked in the knee by a percheron; needless to say that ruined him. But, he's as shapely as his mother was and a great slinky type model... looks a good bit in line as his grandmother who is still here. Her name is Frascati. She's too old to breed but it's possible to try follicle aspiration yet. She has been a great mare as well. And then there's one of her stallion sons CHINN, sire line of the great Olympic horse Chin-Chin. He has this shapely neck and an amazing structure to his head. The bone is very curvy and angular at the same time. GORGEOUS!
I had not planned on making this a daily diary but I will give it a try. I do have a formal web site: www.equine-impressions.com for the equine art and www.cloverlone.com are my horses.
Let's see if I can post some pictures....
gail
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