Raven showing off his costume. 
                                                             A real neigh-t-mare!
   In 2011, Ms.Cramer from Rockbridge, Ohio entered a Halloween photo contest on Facebook. Obviously, she won. Instead of going down the worn-out road of witch hats and cheesy horse costumes, Ms. Kramer had another idea. Using non-toxic and safe white paint, she painted her horse Raven's whole body. She used pictures of horse anatomy to put every bone where it should be and spent about 3 hours a day in the weeks leading up to Halloween completing this equine masterpiece. The "Skeleton Horse" has become so popular, that Raven has worn the costume for 4 years straight. I think it's amazing how someone was creative and crazy enough to paint their horse. I would love to do this to my horse, but he's white. Hopefully I will be painting the black outlines of the bones on him soon enough. I think that this amazing and unexpected costume will change the way equestrians celebrate Halloween. I think it would work on all colors and breeds of horse's because of the variety of hues that the paint comes is massive. This costume alternative is low-cost, a definite contest winner, and an amazing addition to any horse for Halloween. All anyone needs to do this to their horse is paint, a brush, and patience!
Works Cited:

Malm, Sara. "I'm your worst neigh-t-mare: Woman transforms her horse into a creepy skeleton." Scoop. it.
www.scoop.it.com, October 27 2014. Web. Oct. 31 2014.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Wishing everyone a Halloween of dressage tricks and horse treats!

                        Awesome Horse Drawing Reference Guide

   So I don't know about you people, but when I try to draw......well there's always an A for effort right? My biggest struggle lies in the category of living, breathing mammals. Whether I am attempting to replicate a person or "Grumpy Cat", I pitifully fail. Being that one annoying horse-obsessed girl at school, I naturally attempt to draw horses. A lot. Lets just say that the potato-dog object that my pencil unfortunately insists on making does not deserve to be compared to any living organism. The area that so strongly evades my success is anatomy. All of the bones, muscles, and tissues that make up my animal of obsession tend to disfigure themselves upon paper, even when they seem perfect in my mind. The convenient article that I have discovered has already provided so much assistance to my friends and I. I personally love drawing guides because they make me seem so much more talented than I am! Drawing horses often gets destroyed by the clashing of science and literature. On one hand, you naturally want make it look anatomically correct. On the other hand. stories that glorify these animals leave readers imagining broad, brave, and over sized heroes. This often causes the artist to create an unclear, confusing image.

         This article fixes these problems. It aids the artist in drawing an anatomically correct horse that is still able to portray it's true elegance, strength, and spirit. It also demonstrates how to draw different horses doing different things. I personally recommend it to any person that is honestly trying to avoid drawing a deformed, walking potato!

                                         Works Cited:

Okutho, Jerome. "Horse Drawing Reference Guide." Scoop.it.

www.scoop.it.com, March 4 2013. Web. 21 Oct. 2014.

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