OBS News + Plans - 03/01/16

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03/01/16


Well, it's been 6 months since my last update so I thought I should air my thoughts on what is happening to OBS. Now these are for me some quite big changes, but for many I don't know how much you all know my horses and characters and things. Firstly, I'm changing up the staff. I am introducing more staff and Olly is leaving as my stables is turning into a more professional dressage yard with each member of staff allocated a specific role, including an office manager! Over the past couple of days I have gifted away a about 6 or 7 of my horses, and some of these were pretty successful, but they were eventers or show jumpers, and that is just not what I'm looking to do, so I gifted them to friends who I know will love them. We are continuing the line of Obertaurers, and they will be our small side business with some training going on there, and they might turn out to do an discipline yet!
Before I post up any more story art (except White December!), I will be doing some traditional references for all my ponies hopefully along with drawing out the stables. Drawing out the stables is going to be quite the challenge for someone who can't draw a straight line or do perspectives well but I am hoping to maybe learn sketchup for mapping out the house and I should perhaps manage a stable map and some 'around the stables' pictures. The around the stables pictures might come with story art though as but that time I'd imagine I will be going stir crazy, or it might be between commissions again (I am currently taking some time off to do original art and HARPG art).
Throughout this year I really want to focus on the humans and the 'behind the scenes' because to be honest I don't really care about prizes and only enter shows if they sound fun so showing will be kept to a minimum as those images also take a long, long time to do well traditionally.
Well I think that is all for now, I know and apologise for being so slow that art is almost non-existent, but between university and commissions, time is becoming more and more precious!


21/06/15


With still having not found any of their horses, the team at Oak Brooke Stables have been contemplating where they are going to take the stables next. We have decided to concentrate on the breeding of our dutch warmbloods to create an elite lineage, which each horse being a champion in their own right. This will be for the discipline of dressage, but we will keep a couple of other horses around for the ride. We are also, as you may have noticed a few weeks ago, getting a pair of Obertaurer foals which is very exciting for us! The obertaurers are more suited to the climate in Scotland so this seemed like a logical step for us. We are not sure what discipline these will be introduced for, and will play it by ear as they are still foals. You should see images of these guys up in the next new weeks! On the show front we are entering the Midsummer Celebration Grand Prix, hosted by mistyhills and helsinge, and you should totally go and check it out! Also, the plan is to place some old art in scraps and tidy up my gallery as the coloured pencils are invading!!

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