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My RioRondo Order

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I placed my first order from RioRondo! I got everything I needed (if I got everything I wanted the whole website would be sold out lol) The most obvious thing is one of their western saddle kits. I also got an extra saddle tree so I could make another after my first practice one.   And a western accessories kit.  I also got some beautiful teal leather for all kinds of projects! Teal is my favorite color…(in case you can’t tell by looking at my workspace lol) And now for all the hardware! Lots of halter rings, three and two slotted. I was going to get gold but I forgot and now they’re of sold out! Darn it! LOTS of clips! Blanket buckles, Other buckles  Small buckles  Big buckles, all the buckles 😂 (Most of which are from the sample sheet that I got) Lots of cool bits; English on the right, western on the left. On the sample sheet(Where most of the stuff came from) There were these two super tiny, two slotted halter rings. They’re too big for stablemate and too small for classic so I’m
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Buckskins, Grey's, and Blacks

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 After NaMoPaiMo was done, I lasted about two weeks before I started painting again 😂. I selected four horses to paint: These guys will be a bloody shoulder Arabian (the mare) and a black (the filly) The mare is the only one I have finished so far, I’ll add pictures of the further down. And these two are in the process of becoming sooty buckskin Connemara ponies! I’m going to keep one and sell one. I found a bunch of reference pictures for them, sooty buckskins are SO pretty! Looking up reference pictures has got to be one of my favorite parts of painting!  Here is my progress on the little twin ponies: I forgot to take pictures of the foal, but she is just in her base coat black right now  Here is what I’m aiming for: And now for the one I finished! First I found way more reference pictures than I needed, but the bloody shoulder Arabians are just so beautiful! There are so many different kinds! Some aren’t even on the shoulder! I decided to do a medium sized one.  I know she’s a bit
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