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Monday, October 17, 2011
Liberty Horse Art
Circus Horse by Emil Cedercreutz 1946 Rauma, Sweden Aristocrats by British painter Lucy Kemp-Welsh
Ian, Geez, that's some beautiful work. What is the medium? Is time constraints keeping you from producing more, or is the posting on facebook just a sample?
Thanks, Not time constraints - just one of those things I wanted to try and lost interest. The only others I did were a series of circus horse Christmas ornaments, which I cast to sell on Ebay. Whenever I get the morgan cast, I'll send you one of the castings. The medium is low temp fired clay.
Ian, Are any of the Christmas ornament's still available? Let me know when the Morgan is cast. I'll be the first in line. Nancy Ostermaier, wife of the late, great Albert was quite an accomplished horse artist also, and produced a number of small horse sculptures.
I have the molds for the christmas ornaments somewhere - I might dig them out at some point and do them again.
Wade, I have never heard of of a Morgan liberty act, except for Kathy's Morgan crosses. I wonder why that is. I have worked around Morgans and can't see anything that would preclude them, and the modern Morgans are very visually appealing and the price for a decent Morgan is similar to that of a good Arab. The only thing I can think of is that they are mostly bay, and everyone seems to prefer grey or black. I saw a video of a Gruss act with all bays and it was stunning, so...
Ian, Long ago, in the early day's of the blog, someone asked me what act, if any would be my dream act to train. It was then and still is today, a Palomino Morab liberty act. Morgans are indeed beautiful, and a Morab is even more refined. I love Arabians, and my second favorite horse is anything crossed with an Arabian. I also believe the grey color is one of the reason's Arab's have historically been popular as a liberty horse, and why Morgans and other breeds are not used as much. I think there are also a lot more cull/liberty quality Arabians available, as opposed to the Morgan.
Aristocrats by British painter Lucy Kemp-Welsh
Ahem, you forgot to include famous circus horse scuptor - ME! LOL
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Ian
Ian,
ReplyDeleteGeez, that's some beautiful work. What is the medium? Is time constraints keeping you from producing more, or is the posting on facebook just a sample?
Wade
Thanks, Not time constraints - just one of those things I wanted to try and lost interest. The only others I did were a series of circus horse Christmas ornaments, which I cast to sell on Ebay. Whenever I get the morgan cast, I'll send you one of the castings. The medium is low temp fired clay.
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Ian, I liked your horse sculptures too! Lovely work.
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ReplyDeleteAre any of the Christmas ornament's still available? Let me know when the Morgan is cast. I'll be the first in line. Nancy Ostermaier, wife of the late, great Albert was quite an accomplished horse artist also, and produced a number of small horse sculptures.
Wade
I have the molds for the christmas ornaments somewhere - I might dig them out at some point and do them again.
ReplyDeleteWade, I have never heard of of a Morgan liberty act, except for Kathy's Morgan crosses. I wonder why that is. I have worked around Morgans and can't see anything that would preclude them, and the modern Morgans are very visually appealing and the price for a decent Morgan is similar to that of a good Arab. The only thing I can think of is that they are mostly bay, and everyone seems to prefer grey or black. I saw a video of a Gruss act with all bays and it was stunning, so...
Ian
Ian,
ReplyDeleteLong ago, in the early day's of the blog, someone asked me what act, if any would be my dream act to train. It was then and still is today, a Palomino Morab liberty act. Morgans are indeed beautiful, and a Morab is even more refined. I love Arabians, and my second favorite horse is anything crossed with an Arabian. I also believe the grey color is one of the reason's Arab's have historically been popular as a liberty horse, and why Morgans and other breeds are not used as much. I think there are also a lot more cull/liberty quality Arabians available, as opposed to the Morgan.
Wade