{"id":2702,"date":"2025-02-24T09:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T17:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2025-02-24T09:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T17:04:52","slug":"namopaimo-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/24\/namopaimo-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"NaMoPaiMo 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have a list of personal projects I want to accomplish in 2025 and one of them was to officially participate in NaMoPaiMo<\/a>. In previous years, I\u2019ve tried participating but never in an official capacity because I was afraid of committing and letting myself down by not finishing on time. Both horses I wound up finishing but not until month\u2019s after the event was over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But this year, I wanted to commit and actually push myself into finishing. And to help me with that, I signed up for Heather Bullach\u2019s<\/a> introductory oil painting class. I felt that having a class-like structure would allow me to stay accountable with my piece, and I would actually learn how to properly paint instead of winging it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I chose the stablemate scale Alborozo mold, because I felt that working at a small size would help make this project a lot more manageable. The class was centered around learning to paint black horses, and so I chose to use Black Beauty from the 1994 film as my reference horse.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I haven\u2019t touched oil paints since I was in college ten years ago. I remember being so annoyed at having to wait for the paint to dry, and favoured acrylics instead. But ten years later, I\u2019ve come around to appreciating the slow and steady nature of the medium.
And I think I like the patience that oils require given how everything in our culture today is so immediate and running and a breakneck speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ta-da! He’s all finished! I actually debated on whether or not I should write individual blog posts sharing my progress, or if I should save it for one big post. I ended up choosing the latter, but maybe with my next horse I’ll do individual posts instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are obviously things I would do differently (I wish it were easier to see the blues and purples in his coat so I may need to push that in the next one), but I’m just celebrating the fact that I actually did what I said I was going to do and finished this little Black Beauty a week before the deadline.
This has made me fall in love with oil painting horses and now I’m looking at artist resins to paint!
My wallet, unfortunately\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n

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It’s also got me wondering if I can somehow experiment with painting and ceramics?
That’s something I’ll have to explore in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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