Creating a Legend: Candace Liddy Sculpts "With a Twist"
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EquinArt Creation's president, Jeanne Grunert, with the horse who inspired the sculpture - "With a Twist". Jeanne was Twist's show
groom in the early 1990's before Janet Rizzo, Twist's owner, moved her to The Ridge, Olympic rider Nona Garson's stable. Here Jeanne
shows off Twist's glowing bay coat from her thorough grooming at a show, sometime around 1992.
We selected Candace Liddy to sculpt Twist.
Candace is world famous for sculptures of
famous Thoroughbred race horses, so we
knew she could create the perfect
Thoroughbred for EquinArt! We selected a
sketch for the pose from many provided.
Next, Candace creates a wire armature for
Twist's frame.
Layers of clay are carefully applied over the
wire armature.
She's starting to look more like a horse...but
a little lumpy!
Now you can begin to see the beautiful
Thoroughbred hunter-style horse we had in
mind! You can just picture her softly
cantering towards her next jump in the hunter
ring.
Twist at the end of May: she will get ears
and a braided mane. The last stage will be
to form the interchangeable mane that fits
over her neck and gives her a new "look".
Candace and her business partners own the
patent to the interchangeable mane.
EquinArt Creations is licensing the patent
from her to create "With a Twist".
Twist is almost complete - but wait! She has
a braided mane. Could she show Western
like this? Not really. Candace then sculpts
an interchangeable mane for Twist!
One horse, two looks! The interchangeable
mane is cast in resin as a separate piece. It
even includes the forelock. It fits right over
the neck and slides into place. Twist now
has a look that's suitable for Western
showing too!
Closeup of the loose mane on the original sculpture. It fits right over the neck and the braided mane. Cast
copies may look slightly different.
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