My Soapbox for Equestrian Writings
Sarah K. Andrew and HoofPrints have teamed up to create a 2012 calendar, titled Horses and Hope: My Year at the Auction. If you aren’t already aware, Sarah takes photos every week of horses that are at the Camelot auctions. Her photos do an incredible job of capturing the personalities and conformation of the horses […]
Read MoreTom Hill is a 26-year-old self-taught British sculptor who uses recycled horse shoes to create life-size animal sculptures. He uses a gas forge, anvil and hammer and various welding techniques. There’s not much information available about him, but I think his work speaks for itself. I really love the jockey and racehorse!
Read MoreThis lovely old postcard is from the early 1900s. I love the romance and the staging. Back in the 1900-1910 era it appears to have been quite common to dress in costume and pose with your horse. Maybe that should make a comeback? I know several people who might really enjoy that! Hand tinting was […]
Read MoreI’ve managed to amass a considerable collection of Art Nouveau/Art Deco and vintage prints and postcards. My impulse to collect started almost accidentally when I came across Victorian postcards featuring women in romantic, dreamy poses standing with horses. These images really appeal to me — I love the dresses, the horses and the women in […]
Read MoreWhen I was looking for examples of dollar bill origami horses I came across some incredible examples of more “traditional” origami. These are extraordinary. I’d love to be able to do this but can’t even imagine how many hours it took to fold these horses . . . or how much practice it took to […]
Read MoreI know that sometimes we all feel like our horses are just made of money — but here are a few that actually are. Dollar bill origami has always intrigued me. When you have kids it’s helpful to be able to create “toys” out of materials at hand and a few origami elephants can create […]
Read MoreI’ve written before about people who turn old horse shoes into pieces of sculpture, A Better Use for Old Shoes. I recently came across another way to turn horse shoes into art — this one a bit more accessible for those of us not comfortable wielding a blow torch: Beaded horse shoes. Check them out. […]
Read MoreThe George Stubbs painting of the racehorse Gimcrack sold for $36,085,530 yesterday at a Christie’s auction in London, setting a record price for a Stubbs painting. How deliciously ironic that the meaning of gimcrack is “an object of little use or value.” The painting was bought by an unidentified bidder. Its sales price makes it […]
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