Today's first featured BreyerFest Best Customs Contest entry comes from the always fiercely competitive Excellence in Finishwork category. Take a look at Madison Poulin's Stitch.
Madison writes: This is Stitch. She is a Breyer Traditonal Braided Rowan painted as a clipped dapple bay with heterochromia.
Stitch has been months in the making. Since November, she has taken countless hours, layers upon layers of pastels, more than a few struggles, plenty of redos, and about five different photoshoots to finally become the horse I imagined at the start of her creation.
I always knew I wanted her to be a dapple bay pinto, but I created her entirely without references. The only direction I followed was the feel from my paintbrushes!
She earned her name from one of my favorite songs, “Stitches” by NervePitch, but the meaning became so much more than my favorite song. She was stitched together from every part of the process: my love for pintos, my excitement over Breyer's new Rowan mold, and my determination to push myself beyond what felt comfortable.
She was painted with acrylics, pastels and pencils. This picture shows her at the beginning of the process, with pastels on a cream acrylic paint base.
Congratulations, Madison. All that work really paid off. Stitch is glorious. Good luck at BreyerFest!
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