Revel Sel de Mer
April 7, 2008
Revel Sel de Mer – Summer ‘05
One of the most exciting parts of my series is watching my subjects mature. It is amazing to see all the proportional changes foals go through. As most horse people reading this know, there can be some gangly and awkward stages in their development. Times when the hind end is high, big looking head, huge ears..then a few months down the line things start to even up.
In a couple months as the weather starts to warm up here in Ontario, I will be revisiting all the subjects in the series. I will post the new shots and we can all see how they are growing and developing. Lets hope they will all be at stage of good proportion. 
There is one subject I will share with you now and be sure to click on the links of the horses throughout the post so you can learn more about each of them. Revel Sel de Mer, otherwise known as ‘Lily’, is registered Selle Francais, out of Kalonja (Ana) by Jamestown. Ana is the same mare which produced Panama K, also in the series. Lily is now owned by Claire Hunter of Braecrest Stables in Loretto, Ontario. I photographed her as a foal is the summer of ‘05 and created some water-soluble graphite sketches of her. She had a pretty face, kind eye, solidly built, and slightly large ears…teehee..
and here is a shot of the dam, known as ‘Ana’:
Here is Lily in the summer of ‘07:
Hasn’t she matured? She’s a really classy looking girl, certainly looks like a nice hunter prospect. She didn’t grow out of her big ears though..but with her puppy-dog personality, it is certainly one of her endearing traits.
One other interesting component to this story is comparing Ana’s ‘05 foal with her ‘07 foal, Panama K. She was sired by VDL Ulando H. As a broodmare, Ana seems to allow many physical aspects of the stallion to come shining through. Lily is nice and round, with good bone, while Panama has delicate ‘china doll-like’ features. Two very different looking offspring.
Coincedentaly, Claire and Braecrest Stables now have the Ana for the ‘09 breeding season! I can’t wait to see who she breeds her to!!
One small note, please disregard any spelling errors, the spellchecker on WordPress isn’t working.. 
.. and I am a crappy speller!
I love the drawing. Not an expert on horse painting but it reminds me a bit of Lionel Edwards drawings.
Wish I could draw like that!
I wanted to add that since you have followed this family so closely Revel Sel de Mer & Panama K as well as their dam, Revel Sel de Mer was 4th in the Under Saddle Cup Class at the Royal 2008 with Claire Hunter.
Your artistic following is a lot of fun to watch!!
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