Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Mr. Ed



I'm going back over all my best models, and remaking them with the terrific Arches paper that I'm now in love with.

The Horse-Head model is from 2012, but it occurred to me lately that one of the many influences when I came up with it was a distant childhood memory of "Mr. Ed" -- the famous talking horse on the TV show, whose neck and head was always peering out of a stall. "Bamboo Harvester" (that's the horse-actor's name) had skin and hair in a beautiful combination of orange-tan + cream, so I thought I'd try that as a homage, instead of the usual charcoal-and-light colors I'd done previously.  Came out quite nice I think.

So here's to you, Bamboo Harvester. As always I'm curious to hear what you have to say.

Saadya