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| LSQ or Not: LSQ is a term meaning [Live Show Quality]. I never advertise or guarentee anything I do as LSQ (although a bunch of stuff I've done is) because it's nothing but a fancy salespitch used to sell models. LSQ is a matter of opinion and what one person may see as LSQ another may not. I've seen some of the most drop dead beautiful models photographed on a table with no ribbons at all next to a simply 'Ok' model with a Grand Champion ribbon. So in many cases it depends on the judge. Point is; ALL models are LSQ, unless you have a horse that has a completely nonexistant color pattern on it such as a red chestnut with black leg points, a dun with no dorsel stripe, or what you title a palomino with a black mane and tail. Those such things would simply disqualify you from entering certain classes. There is nothing that says you can't enter a public model show as long as you fit the catagory. Whether you win anything or not remains to be seen, but if you painted it, you can show it. And to promise something is "LSQ" or "Top LSQ" is totally unnesessary and pointless in my opinion because someone else out there may have a higher standard with regards to the term than you do...   |
Included here are some simple tutorials on some of my work. I'm in no way an expert in any field of art. This is just simply...How I do it. | ||||||||||||
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Dapple Greys: How To... See "Israh El Storm" from start to finish |
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| I've been
painting and drawing since the age of four. I get the
majority of my artistic abilities from my mother. She was
the typical stay-at-home southern mom when I was little.
She learned everything she taught me from her mom and so
on and so on. Sewing, Ceramics, Porcelain Dolls, Soft
Sculpture, Painting, Leather Tooling etc. And what she
didn't teach me I dabbled in on my own. I suffer from
severe perfectionism.. When I was younger I quit many
times in many different fields of art because if I
couldn't get what was in my head down in physical form I
would literally self-destruct. I quit many things in life
by not being able to handle my own failures or just what
I would label incompetence. I would see a photograph in
my head of something and would fly totally off the handle
if I couldn't paint it to look exactly like the
photograph quality image in my head. Who can do that? Not
many 12 year olds. lol So for many years I'd quit art
because the stress would get so bad I literally couldn't
handle it anymore. Acceptance |
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My perfectionism and self-destructive nature I think
came about as the result of my father. We were, and never
will be good enough in his eyes. And it's sad because
he's the most ruthless, hatefull, heartless person on the
face of the earth. So that's one thing that helped me so
many years ago to be able to like myself again through my
art. My mother was the type of mom that would love
anything and everything we did. We could bring her a
paint spatter on an old tennis shoe and if we told her
"I painted this for you mom." She'd treat it
like the Nobel Peace Prize. My father was not that way.
If you worked your butt off trying to make good grades
and presented him with a report card sporting all A's and
a couple B's, he'd simply say, "Now let's see if you
can't get those B's up to A's then you'll have straight
A's". Needless to say I grew up hating school. So
having a father who's favorite things to tell his kids
are "You can't, You wont be able to, You'll never,
You don't know how to.., You'll never learn to.." It
starts to sink in after a few years. I'm 33 now and you'd
think to hear my father talk I don't have the sense to
pour piss out of a boot. |
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