NaMoPaiMo falls onto a special time of year for me. Foaling season. If you were following The Foal Watch last year, you would have seen a lot of pregnant mare posts followed by a lot of newborn foal posts right at the beginning of February.
This year however, only one lady is due in NaMoPaiMo season and she was really looking like she was going to hold out to the end of the month. Apparently, the announcement of a NaMoPaiMo painting party triggered a massive foal shift and before Erica Ferguson even arrived at my farm, the trailer was packed and the companion horse was loaded. We started our party off with a drive to the vet clinic with glowing optimism that maybe, just maybe, Kiss would foal this weekend.
We delivered her, but she has yet to deliver anything to us...
Because of our late night detour, our party started Saturday morning with a trip into town for breakfast, and right after we worked on the final touches of primer. Our whole intention was for this weekend to be a PAINTING party, not a prepping party (which seems to always happen). Luckily all of our horses were fully prepped in January during our last party! In total, Erica planned to work on 5 models and I myself 7 (2 being medallions). Ambitious? Yes. The reason for our insanity? The Jennifer Show prep since we have SO much to do! Honestly, painting horses is the least of our worries.
Between priming and dullcoting the fresh primer (we're both working in pigments this year), we had a lot of time to kill. We broke out the Breyer-Opoly that I picked up at Breyerfest in 2016. Erica won, I lost because I kept getting locked in the stall *insert sad face*. There was a lot of running back and forth between basement and living room, shaking spray cans, rolling the dice, and forgetting who's turn it was. Good times all around!
Then then unimaginable happened. We started painting. I started working on my Chief (Nikki Button [O'Niel]) medallion, Hugh micro (Maggie Bennett), and my NaMoPaiMo model Sandman (Horsing Around). Chief is to be a bay leopard appaloosa, Hugh a black pony, and Sandman a portrait of my filly, Taiga.
Our hands were tied with curing times of
primer and dullcotte so we did have to abandon
ship twice to give things time.
We made a tack store run and rode my gelding, Iero, around the driveway (both NaMoPaiMo painting party traditions).
Now that all of our models are primed and ready, we are giving it our all tomorrow! No more playing around, we will be putting pastel on every single model we brought!! We hope...
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