Well, progress on the final stage of detailing out the resin master is slow. We’ve switched to the Arizona house and then life got fun and busy!

So here he is patiently waiting on my work table. He looked pretty great in clay stage but he actually has a lot of things I need to do to get him where I want him. Now I’m working in epoxy putty which I have to do in short sessions so that I don’t disturb a not-dry finished area while working on another!

I have an idea of the release plan on Meridian. I want to hand him off to Jenn Scott in May, who will be handling the scanning and 3D printing for a venti edition. If I get my act together, I hope to have both the 1/9th scale trad and 1/20th scale venti master sculpts on display at Breyerfest in Lexington, KY, in July. I should find out soon if I get into the Artisan Gallery there.

At Breyerfest I will hand off both masters to Red Shed Resins. I’ve been told that resins production will start in September. I will be selling the trad scale edition first.

Once I have a couple resin casts of the trad scale, they will be mailed off to England where Donna at Animal Artistry will make bone chinas and probably some earthenware bisques, over the next few years. (I still have 4 bone china Denderah Arabians on order, so this will not be a fast process.)

It sure takes a village to reproduce a horse sculpture, doesn’t it!!!

I don’t like to do sales of anything until I have pieces to ship. When they start arriving I’ll open up for sales. So you’ll have many months to save up for a Meridian later this fall!

But this summer (in Kentucky?) I may do a special offer to fundraise all these upfront costs a little. Something like: Prepay in full for a trad resin and receive a venti free!

Also: if I get into the Breyerfest Artisan Gallery I will get busy glazing some new chinas and ChromaPony custom Breyers to sell there!

Anyway thanks SO much for all your support and stay tuned to this space. Have a great springtime! 💗

My new 1/9 scale sculpture, Meridian, Irish Draught Stallion, is nearing completion and I’m making plans for production.

Meridian will definitely be released in a ceramic edition, hopefully the first fine English bone china pieces will start arriving for me to glaze late this year.

Meridian will be released in an unpainted resin cast edition also. I’d like to produce a 1/9 scale “traditional” edition, maybe around 30 pieces, and am considering a “venti” 1/20 scale edition. These would go into production this summer. Photos of the finished master sculpture will be released in late April, and I should have it on display at BreyerFest in July. Follow the Westerly Design Facebook page for the most up to date info.

This is not a reservation or order form. It’s a poll. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond.

It’s 100% confidential so I won’t be able to see who sent in the form.

MERIDIAN Resin Interest Poll

Announcing the sale offering for the first four custom glazed Mini Caprice Chinas!

You’ll be bidding on the RIGHT OF FIRST CHOICE among the 4 chinas offered!

Date: Monday July 3

Time: Starting at 8:00 pm MST

Format: A realtime online auction held only on a post on the Westerly Design Facebook page.

It’s going to be a very short auction!
The bidding will start at 8:00 pm mountain time here in Colorado. (That’s 2 hours earlier than eastern time, 1 hour later than pacific time etc.) You will place your bids in the comments of the auction post ONLY. One bid per comment. Bids must be in $5 increments. (No bids of $121.52 for example.) You can not place a bid in someone else’s comment. Each time you make a new bid, you have to make a new comment.

The auction will finish that same night when the bidding stops: when there has been 5 minutes with no more higher bids. Then I will declare the winner to be the highest bid. If there’s a tie with the exact same time stamp, those 2 bidders will be able to bid one more time… and we’ll do it privately. If you want to bid anonymously, please have a friend bid for you. All times are determined by what’s on MY laptop computer. I reserve the sole right to determine/name the winner.

You’ll be bidding on the RIGHT OF FIRST CHOICE among the 4 chinas offered!

They are shown in the photos on this post. Appaloosa, chestnut tobiano, light grey, and palomino. The high bidder gets to pick one and you must tell me your choice at the time you’re contacted by me as the winner. It can be shipped, or delivered to Breyerfest. Shipping cost is not included. Time payments are available. To be negotiated with the winner.

The other three will be sold first-come first-serve, at set prices, the Friday night of Breyerfest weekend.
I will also have one of the OF Bay test colors (broken “docked” tail) for sale, and possibly one of the 30 OF Bays. You can find me in room 514 at the Clarion Hotel, Lexington KY, at 7:30 pm until about 9. This is the room of Marilou Mol, Linda Shawhan, and Brenda Metcalf, who graciously are letting me hang out with them that night, since I’m staying at the Embassy Suites. If you need to find me for sure for any reason during the weekend, look for me there!! I’m told it’s right across the hall from the ballroom area lobby where all the BF activities like the Artisan’s Gallery is, easy to find.

There will be more CMG Mini Caprice Chinas glazed in the coming year, including some on bases. Thank you so much for your interest!

Available, my genuine one-of-a-kind Breyer Shire Gelding painted by me at Breyer HQ in 2016.

In case you didn’t know, I’m the sculptor of the Breyer Shire Gelding mold. I was fortunate to paint two OOAK Shires at Breyer’s NJ painting facilities in 2016, the year the mold was introduced.

This one has the mane flights and tail ribbons removed, so he’s also a factory custom. I believe he’s the only OF decorator color painted on this mold so far.

Overall he’s fairly simple paintwork … no fancy mapped markings … but the true stunning beauty I was going for when I painted him, is in the way the aqua undercolor merges with the darker blue top shadings. And it picks up all his sculptural details. I’m a master airbrush artist with over 40 years experience. I added blue PearlEx to the factory paint to give it a light metallic sheen. Heavily glossed and in pristine condition. He’s never been shown and always kept in my cabinet.

He comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from Breyer. As with all Breyer factory OOAKs there’s no guarantee that Breyer will never release this model in this color at some point.

This a beloved model from my own collection.

I have a strong offer of 10k for this model. He will sell; there’s no reserve. I will consider offers only until Wednesday March 29 at 12 noon mst. I will personally deliver to Breyerfest in July, no shipping. You can take until July to pay, contact me to discuss payment terms.

Email me with questions and bids: karen@westerlydesign.com

The first group of 14 pieces in the edition are ready to order. The Mini Caprice 20th Anniversary OF china edition will be 30 pieces total, earthenware china on a base, as shown. It’s roughly 4″ x 4″. All finished to a golden bay with 4 white socks and a snip on the nose.

Go to this link to access the order form. It will be live until March 17th.