Table portraits 20.

The table portrait series continues, and we are still in autumn 2021. This time the models in question are a bit unusual, because they are not Breyers. I made the first horse myself somewhere in 2017, and he was and is my first original sculpture who also got finished. The second one is my OSC as well.

His name is Passmore, alias Passi, and he is... not a draft horse. I don't know what he is, because he looks like a large horse but he is meant to be in traditional scale, where he is more comparable to ponies than horses. 

All I can say is that he's recognizable for something made in my personal style, and I do not mean that as complete positive; he is ugly. I can find Passi's face photogenic, but that's it, and he is not the model I could use when I introduce strangers to the model horse hobby. 

The second OSC to be shown is also from 2017. In fact these two were finished at the same time, but Passi is only technically older. This roan mare is officially named Blue Tears, alias Tilda. Her breed, mosteasy, is a fictional one and not meant to be pretty, but my sculpt made it even worse. Way, way worse. I only tolerate her head, really... 

That halter on her is old and outdated, but it being too large to Tilda has some story meanings. I could really change the buckle to a better one and also redo the connector, but I will not remember it the second time I go to the art room. (Plus, it is a trash halter. They usually don't seem to be worth much attention, although can be nice to make since I get to use all the leftover leather strips to them.)

Tilda is small, even smaller than Passi. She could be probably a bit over metre tall on the withers if was real, and... That is really small. It is clear that an A4 paper isn't enough to draw a sketch to which you use to make the armature with. It has to be at least A3, or bigger. I have since started to use the cardboards from Breyer traditional boxes to sketch sculptures on, and I also calculate and mark there the withers height I want.

The next horse to be portrayed is a Breyer.

Rat and rat

I'm not those who plan every photo story or try to get everything to look always as believable as possible. Here's one photo stack to show what I mean... Or do you think that there's a) horse sized rats or b) rat dudes who are small as 1:1 rats?

It has nothing to do with horses, really.

Rats are curous little animals, and, you know, domestic ones are yet more curious and do not fear so easily. So no one was really scared when one of my dolls, Viiskytkin, met my already quite old paperclay sculpture Mokkis.


First, we have some size comparison photos. Mokkis is realistic in scale, I think... I have never met female rats (unbelievable, I have had and met only males). Viiskytkin is a bit taller than male Breyer dolls. 

Then began the story... Accidentally. Because guess who got curious to check what moves in the huge rat's head.

Viiskytkin: "Yea, come here, girl!"

He stepped on... Giggled alone as Mokkis seems not to care about anything...

Then he made a quick move and evil laugh. Mokkis ignored again.

Until he wonders: "What the, where did she go?!"

You never know about animals. As more you know, as better it is, but you never know it wholly. And that's not a bad thingy - when you make sure what you do, how and that you are not a bad thingy, they trust more and can allow things to happen without going away like Mokkis did.


Artistic info:
Viiskytkin is wholly made by me at home... I think this was needless to say. Or then I explain that those photos got taken before I cut his vest's neck... To make it better to see and handle.

But Mokkis is new in this blog. She's 1:1 scale paperclay rat I sculpted at school so she is a schoolwork. Painted with acrylics there, at home I varnished her eyes to gloss naturally. Because paperclay is what it is, it doesn't work as many other clays could. That explains her lying position, rough surface, less details and no recognizable toes and fingers in paws. I have later started to like paperclay, too, as it's OK for larger sculpts, but haven't done that at home.

Her color is some kind of chocolate or cinnamon with a hooded pattern. There's also downunder markings under her belly, really. Everything is mismarked, of course, I like non-perfect animals.