kitkat86
Well-Known Member
Just wondering if anyone has any experience of either selling or buying horsey arts and crafts. I have been thinking of trying to make my hobby a bit more productive as I really enjoy making horse sculptures in clay. I mostly enjoy making heads/busts as this avoids the tricky wobbly legs issue and is (for me anyway) the part with the most character/variation. I've not been doing this very long but I've found I can produce a model around 4-5" tall pretty quickly. The only real restriction is that I don't have my own kiln, so I would have to wait space to be available. However with this size the waiting time for a firing is usually no longer than a week.
I know there are people who customise model horses and sell them on etsy and ebay and I was wondering if I could do something similar by trying to do sculpted portraits of people's horses/ponies. I know I have to do more research into costs and times, so I'm not advertising myself because I'm not sure if I can definitely offer anything yet! I've had good feedback about my work, and this is something that's still developing, but it'd be nice to see what people here think. I've got some pictures of an unfinished piece, it's quite a stylised horse's head that just I made without a reference. Unfortunately I don't have any other pictures at the moment.
Hope those pics work. Thanks for reading, and please let me know what you think. Cookies if you read all of this waffle!
I know there are people who customise model horses and sell them on etsy and ebay and I was wondering if I could do something similar by trying to do sculpted portraits of people's horses/ponies. I know I have to do more research into costs and times, so I'm not advertising myself because I'm not sure if I can definitely offer anything yet! I've had good feedback about my work, and this is something that's still developing, but it'd be nice to see what people here think. I've got some pictures of an unfinished piece, it's quite a stylised horse's head that just I made without a reference. Unfortunately I don't have any other pictures at the moment.
Hope those pics work. Thanks for reading, and please let me know what you think. Cookies if you read all of this waffle!