NaMoPaiMo showcase: Jenn Constantine

Remember the beginning of the month when Jenn Constantine was teaching us all about using unconventional colors for basecoats?

I had no idea where she was going with this, but I enjoyed watching the progression.

Slowly but surely.

More and more horse colored.

Today, it all came together.

Jenn writes: At her first sighting as a foal, the locals named her Mokee'e, "little woman" in the Cheyenne language due to her wise bearing. She was also nicknamed "Ember" later in life due to her glowing sunbleached coat each summer, a warm, nurturing hearth that would also roar to life to defend her foals when needed. Her recent scars remind an onlooker that hasn't dimmed in her older age. And she does really wish you would keep up, her bones get creaky in this downpour and she wants to go to shelter to dry off.

Mokee'e (moe-KEH-eh-'eh) is my NaMo 2026 model, on Sarah Mink's traditional Sage model. I finished her in acrylics, colored pencil and an experimental variety of textures of varnishes and paint washes to make her a bit soaked from rain. 

It's even beaded on her face and lower legs, and I painted her lower legs to look like clumped, wet hair. 

Drips are under her mane and down her chest, and there's a little lash of water from her tail across her leg.

Mokee is a personal piece and will stay with me for the foreseeable future.

Congratulations, Jenn on a job well done, and thank you for sharing so much of your process. Without a doubt Mokee is one of horses we will always associate with NaMoPaiMo 2026.