Deb's husband, Mike Gerace draws in the key signature for said Post Call....it truly does take a village....(well, to beat a deadline, anyway!) Without this 'cleaning crew' of relatives, this would be a Herculean task for the artist, who just needs to be focusing on the creative and artistic end of the project!
Ben Craft adds a touch of gilt to Deb Gerace's "Post Call" bugle notes....
Nephew Ben Craft joins the apprentices for a guild 'reality-check,' studying the scale of the designs and trying to paint them over a wavy tail, indented haunches, humped withers and curvy hocks and neck. It is a horse, after all, not a flat canvas....
Followed by "Sister Act," as Deb Gerace and Saretta Craft join the guild to help with the clean-up "scut-work", freeing up Sarah for the actual artwork in this time-crunch, as the horses arrived a month late, seriously impacting the deadline!
Kate, Sarah's daughter (and her first apprentice) arrives and is put to work erasing the pencil marks tracing the afore-mentioned designs after they become reality through the strokes of Sarah's talented brush....
The artist begins, using a wheelchair for mobility as the designs spread across the horse's body....
...are applied to the horse as guides....(note the large one-dimensional paper guides on the back walls).....
The hand-drawn 'vignettes,'.......
The view from outside of the garage-studio, working late into the evening....
Kevin Griffis, Sarah's son-in-law studies the plans....
My sister, Sarah, an artist and teacher, submitted her design for the Horse-Mania project promoting the Alltech World Equestrian Games in Lexington this fall and was accepted! After a month's delay, her horse arrived and now she is hard at work, along with 80 other local artists, putting their designs into painted reality on the curving and wavy contours of their life-sized fiber-glass horses.
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