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Saffron Lunging

Published: Jun 16, 2016

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After noticing that Saffron was so easy to groom and stood calmly while being tied, Katarina wondered just what else she already knew. She gathered up the lunge lines and other tack and suited Saffron up and lead her into the round pen. Katarina gently urged Saffron into a walk, and she immediately got into near perfect form and so Katarina decided to push the envelope a little further. She urged her up into a trot and Saffron did so well that she worked her out in both directions until Saffron had worked up a good lather and then she let her cool down.

Saffron's Veritas, Breeding, and Lineage page

Other pictures of Saffron
Other pictures of Katarina

Basic Training:
1. Groundwork.
2. Lunging. <this image>
3. Accepting a saddle/rider.
4. First ride.
5. Worst fear discovered.
6. Good/Bad day.
7. Trailer work.
8. Visit from the farrier/vet.
9. Playtime.
10. Final: Discipline training.

Dressage Training:
Rhythm:
Bullet; Blue

Energy- Is your horse moving or is it plodding about sleepily? Let's wake it up! Maybe ride to music?
Bullet; Blue

Tempo- Set the right tempo for your horse. Show us what it can do without you interfering too much.
Bullet; Blue

Circles- Ride some large circles and pay attention to your turns! If needed, you may lunge your horse!

Relaxation:
Bullet; Pink

Leg yielding: Leg yield across the diagonal, on the rail, do shoulder in, travers...
Bullet; Pink

Elasticity: See how responsive your horse is. Keep it in the same rhythm while you ask it to cover more or less ground.
Bullet; Pink

Long and Low: Have the horse stretching its head and neck downwards as to relax the back muscles

Connection and Impulsion:
Bullet; Green

Accepting the Bit: Combine your seat, legs, and hands to keep a connection with the horse's mouth. It may resist it at first or not.. find out what it does!
Bullet; Green

Working in an Outline: By now your horse should be able to work in an outline! Show us what you've achieved!
Bullet; Green

Improve Energy: Whether you're on or off the horse, make it move with a little more impulsion but make sure it doesn't run away from you! The movement should be ground covering and not fast.

Straightness:
Bullet; Purple

Is your horse straight?: This one is really basic. Show us what your horse needs to improve. Is it leaning in or falling out in some paces?
Bullet; Purple

From the Front/Back: Show us your horse walking or trotting towards or away from us. If the horse is straight, ideally, we would only see two of its legs.
Bullet; Purple

Circles- Once again, we're back to circles. You can keep the circles to 10m and spiral out to 20m. Circles are a must in order to improve straightness.

Collection:
Bullet; Yellow

Light Shoulders: How light is your horse's forehand? Raise its shoulders in any gait.
Bullet; Yellow

Head up, legs in: The horse must be straight while maintaining its poll as the highest point and moving its legs underneath itself. Show us how far you've gotten!
Bullet; Yellow

Higher Dressage: Piaffe, Pirouette, Passage... anything that requires the collection to show us what your horse can now do!

Reference used for tack: www.horse-training-care.com/im…
Reference used for horse pose: clairelilley.com/wp-content/up…
Reference used for human pose: personal photo

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Image size

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kmkibble75

May 3, 2017

Hi! I'm here from ProjectComment. I really like the setup of your painting here, and how you capture both of the main figures in the midst of motion rather than having either of them standing still. The general setup of the image is good, too – I like how you have them both breaking out of the background border – that adds a bit of unexpected energy to the piece on the whole, though, in regard to that, I would suggest the next time you use this technique that you set up the top border so it's not running along tangentally to another aspect of the painting. What I mean is that having the dark border run right along on top of the top rail of the fence creates a bit of a weird dynamic – is the border actually supposed to be on top of the fence? Am I only misinterpreting something in the painting as a border? And so forth. I think that problem can be easily avoided by setting the fence at an angle – just any angle – that lets it wander off the canvas and beyond the containment of the border, though, unlike with the figures, you don't need to show it past the border.

The proportions of the human figure are really well done, and you did a great job of handling the perspective of her left arm. I think the shadow she's casting is a bit too high – it makes it seem as though she's almost parellel to the ground rather than perpendicular to it – and the same might go for the horse. But you're on the right track for it.

I think Saffron is really well done. My only critique there would be that their frontmost leg is a bit too long – it looks to be significantly longer than their other front leg.

All in all, this is a really well done piece – you hit all the right details in the figures and have a good start on the composition itself. I think if you plan out the logistics a bit more in the future (the shadows and any frame tangents, etc), then you'll have some pretty amazing stuff.

If there was anything in particular you were hoping to get comments about that I missed, just let me know and I'll take another look.

--Kevin