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Sculptor Alexa King's blog about the making of the Barbaro Memorial Sculpture installed at Churchill Downs and continued creative works in progress.
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The Barbaro Memorial Sculpture
· 1d ago
Grass is Tallest Under the Bottom Rail
My grass is the tallest under my fence line. I try to wheedle every bit of grass from under the fence with my zero turn tractor. I attempt to do this by dipping in and out while the perfectly engineered wheel fits under the lowest rail of the board fence. I don’t think this is [...]
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The Barbaro Memorial Sculpture
· 3M ago
Sculpting the Wind
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The Barbaro Memorial Sculpture
· 3M ago
Change of Design
I spent a long time pondering the realism I’m trying to exhibit in my horse statue. Originally I intended to sculpt a harness and shafts for the cart it would be pulling. This was poached from a sculpture I did many years ago and it was thought it might work. I sculpted a small miniature [...]
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The Barbaro Memorial Sculpture
· 3M ago
Chocolate Horse
FEBRUARY 2012 I heated the clay in a hot water bath until it’s soft so I can easily apply it to the foam manikin. I started with his head and worked back to his tail. It’s always tricky to work on a horse’s head first and give the animal it’s character or expression. So, I [...]
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The Barbaro Memorial Sculpture
· 3M ago
Foam Horse Manikin
JANUARY 26, 2012 Right now my foam horse sits quiet in the studio. A coat of glue sizing applied to the entire sculpture has dried and sealed the surface. This has allowed me to use a rasp on the surface to knock off the rough spots and carve into the detail areas with a very [...]
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The Barbaro Memorial Sculpture
· 3M ago
Twenty One Braids
When showing a Hackney Horse they’re required to be braided. The old timers told me they should wear the gold standard of twenty-one braids down their neck. They told me it’s to show the length of their neck and refinement of their appointments. I think there may be more to the number 21 but then [.
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The Barbaro Memorial Sculpture
· 8M ago
Old Horse Tag
The high-class mare who graces my fields is a welcome sight every morning when I walk down the lane to feed. She leads the thundering herd of three if they’re in the east field, cantering into the dry lots with a vision of beauty I never get tired of witnessing. High necked and curvy she reinforces
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The Barbaro Memorial Sculpture
· 9M ago
Cheat Sheets
After scrounging around my studio for a couple hours I couldn’t locate my horse anatomy book. I wanted to spot check my sculpture and it’s been nothing but an exercise in I can’t find it. It’s gone, the unsoiled, un-clayed and fresh to look at pages of the newer copy was loaned out to a [...]
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The Barbaro Memorial Sculpture
· 11M ago
Off and Running
Another group of Barbaro’s are being readied for shipment as early as this Friday.
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The Barbaro Memorial Sculpture
· 1Y ago
Zap
Treading through the muck left in the run-in from the rain water washing in waves from across the road into my paddocks, I tried to un-hook the hot wire connector. Easier to take two horses into the dry lot to manage their weight, both air ferns and bucket hogs they need to have restricted rations [
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