Specializing in painting model horses to flashy Appaloosas with all the chrome and characteristics of real Appies!
​How it all began...
I've been in love with horses (Appaloosas especially) since I was a small child. I had some Breyers and Hartlands that I played with growing up and kept them all, but I never knew there was a "hobby" of collecting them until I accidentally discovered it online while searching for Appaloosa models to buy. When I retired I decided to add to my collection but I only wanted to buy Appaloosa models. I would buy them off Ebay. In my online searches I discovered the Model Horse Blab site and that is where I learned about all the horse crazy women who never grew up and still played with their Breyers and other models. I was shocked and intrigued that people also cut them up, repositioned them, and repainted them and dressed them up in tack with riders! With each Breyer I purchased my hubby would just shake his head and say, "You can do better than that! It looks like a kindergartener painted it." (Of course the newer models look much better now, but he was looking at the old "splatter spots" versions.)
​Portraits of Hall of Fame Appaloosas in Pokey's Pedigree
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He kept encouraging me to try my hand at painting one - a portrait of my own gelding, Pokey. And as I learned and read all I could on Blab and got tips and info and ideas from the artists on the forums, I got brave enough to try. In March of 2013 I painted my first portrait of Pokey. (see above) I had so much fun that I decided to paint portraits of my other horses that I had owned. They were not Appies but I still had fun doing them.
Don was a great cheerleader and I got much encouragement from others on Blab so I kept on painting, deciding to do portraits of Pokey's sire and dam and one of him as a foal too. One thing led to another and I then decided to paint as many of his ancestors as I could find pics of - many of them are Appaloosa Hall of Fame horses.
I was addicted by then - LOL. And people on Blab began to ask for commissions. I put them off for several years as I did not think my work was good enough. But I finally got comfortable with my style, found my "niche" so to speak and I began to take commissions in 2016. With that, I was thrust into the wonderful world of artist resins, which I never knew existed before then, either. Been painting spots ever since!
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