Orlando - Extra heavy cotton

The Orlando design with its dynamic movement and flow shows love of the sport and taking the thrill of the moment of the horse in flight with you wherever you go. Subtle reflective accents on the back and on the hood represent fence rails. Graphic designs are of reflective vinyl and light up bright in the dark. Kids and youth sizes. All garments made in Los Angeles, USA, and carefully decorated by hand in Alaska.

Vida

For the young aspiring equestrians and show jumpers this playful design lights up in the dark when it catches a beam creating a bright effect. The legs of the pony create the M in the word "Jump!" All garments made in Los Angeles, USA, and are carefully decorated by hand in Alaska.

Portrait of Ruffian

This highly detailed articulated sculpture is of a racehorse, with each piece shaped to be a most slender yet powerful, light-footed streamlined young horse. This model was a journey to sculpt as lifelike as possible and to try to highlight and honor her short life.

The sculpture is intentionally created in traditional materials such as wood selected for specific properties, fine cow leather, real goat hair, complemented with metal and finished in natural (historic pigments) oil-based paints. All details and aspects of the design of each part together achieve the maximum possible realistic effect. She has custom made leather leg wraps and a complete set of handmade leather halter, bridle and saddle.

"Sculptures reflecting natural movement and expression"

Artist statement by Maria Talasz“

Years ago I envisioned building a horse sculpture capable of expressing moods. To a large extent, a horse uses body language to communicate. To make that possible in my versions of articulation, the horse's neck gets extra attention. It plays a large role in this language, together with ears, eyes, mouth, nose, and tail. The movement of a neck has to be smooth in moving up and down, nicely arching, and well flexing. In addition, the ears have to be able to move in all natural directions. As they are very detailed and natural looking each horse develops into their own personality.

- Maria

Orion

With a fully articulated and carefully jointed body of about 100 parts, these model horses can be positioned in many ways and are capable of a wide variety of equine expressions.

Software and equipment that are used for 3D modeling is Rhino 5 by McNeel and Associates. Parts layout and preparation (CAD CAM) in Autodesk Fusion 360. Machining of certain parts is performed with Roland CNC machine. Other products include DeWalt, Proxxon, Dremel for planing, cutting, sanding, and fine drilling and hand finishing. Natural Pigment brand oil paints and Talens fine water colors.