At last! He’s done.
And he now has a website with photos.

I’m starting to finalize details about the Roundie resin edition. I thought I’d share this information so you can plan for it. The sale should happen in late May. I think!

Even though I initially wanted to offer a really small edition, various friends told me I might as well keep open the option to cast the whole production of one mold—since I’m paying for it anyway.

So we’ll call it an edition of 60. But… 10 of them will be cast solid (not hollow) to send out for china mold-making and for my “keepers” as well. (I don’t like hollow resins myself, they feel just too much like plastic models and I think resins should have more “presence”). I am also holding back a certain quantity to give away as gifts. And there is a yet-undetermined amount that will be going to buyers living in the UK in a separate sale.

Based on the above I think my sale quantity will be of 35 hollowcast resins. I might offer them in two batches on different dates, depending on delivery of resins. They are going to be $200.00 each, USA postage paid. (International shipping will be split with the buyer.) I am going to sell them via my Etsy store. You’ll need to register as an Etsy user to buy there (there’s no cost and it’s a well-known, safe site)… so you might want to do that now or soon so you don’t have to do it the day my sale goes live. There will be no time payment terms; all resins will be in-stock and ready to ship during the sale.

Sheila (Anderson) Bishop of Palouse Arts has graciously agreed to paint the very first resin copy of Roundabout, which I will photograph to use as the “promo” painted example. She has to complete that before the sale, too. Her work and the arrival of all the resins will determine the exact day of the sale, but I will post the date and time here on the blog at least a week before.

China edition: I will have no information on the china Roundies before the end of May. I do know that I want to produce both English bone china and USA earthenware pieces. I’d like to do an OF edition, but that may be too ambitious.

I am slowly detailing out the master resin. It is slow work. But it needs to be done by March 20th.

While you are waiting for photos of the final Roundie sculpture… here is one of my many reference photos for Roundie. I took hundreds of action photos of British heavyweight show cobs at the Royal Windsor Horse Show on “Cob Day” in May 2009.

Dear everyone,

I did find another person who was able to fill my glazing slot for this month. In fact I could have filled it several times over. My heartfelt thanks to you, who continue to support my work. Even as it takes me so long to get anything done. I am humbly grateful to have a business perking along in this economy. (Even a business so very casual like the way I run mine!) Your patient faith keeps me going and creating! And I am finding ways to give back.

Snowboard season ends around April 15th and then I will be back in the studio until next winter!! Now that the millstone aka “Roundabout” sculpture is gone from around my neck and almost into production, I can look forward with joy to a big season of glazing china horses in the kiln. In the coming months I will be contacting everyone in my “Go To List” database for completing your desired pieces this summer. If you’re not in the List and you have an idea for a china to be glazed be sure to contact me. Email Karen

I just had a person back out of their custom-glazed china commission slot that I was to start this week. Does anyone want to take the slot? I only have until March 18th in the studio to finish it and I’d need payment in full on that date. But you’d get it fast…!

I can only offer this work on chinas that I have in-house because I have to start it on Monday to have a hope of finishing it in 2 weeks. Here’s what I have to choose from, all bone chinas:

• Glossy Horsing Around/Eberl “Sharif” Arabian
• Glossy “Streetwise” QH
• Matte or Gloss “Caprice” warmblood
• Matte or Gloss “Boreas” Percheron

I also have several re-issue H-R’s that can be custom overglazed to a limited range of new colors with minimal white markings:
• Rearing Fez: now flaxen chestnut so it could be glazed to darker colors with dappling including bay, dark sooty buckskin, or black-bay.
• 6″ Zara and matching Zilla: now flaxen chestnut so it could be glazed to darker colors with dappling including darker chestnut, bay, dark sooty buckskin, or black-bay.
• Roan Lady: now palomino, so it could be changed to just about any solid color with dappling, in the brown/bay/chestnut range including bay silver.

The glazing I was taking on this month was to help pay the Roundabout resin and china startup costs. So you’d also be helping me meet this goal. 🙂

To get a price quote on one of the above items and discuss color, send me an email: Email Karen

If you live in the UK and are seriously interested in owning a resin copy of the Roundabout British Show Cob gelding sculpture coming this spring, can you please send me an email using the link below? If there is enough interest I will be holding a separate sale for you and would like to build an email mailing list to send info when ready.

Send me an email: Email Karen