I've completed my piece and luckily only with minor problems like accidentally sticking it to the floor as I was working on it flat to the floor so just needed to spend a little over an hour peeling it off again..
But all is well! I'm happy with how my piece has come out, it even smells horsey which I don't know why I didn't expect, seeing as I was using horse poo..Maybe I just forgot horse poo smells. But it works really well I think to really show the real spirit of the horse. The clay stuck well and the haylage and hair also mixed well with the clay which was a little worry as I wasn't sure how it would hold when upright stuck to a quite loose canvas.
I'm currently working out how to mount it.. I experimented with towering horse poo to use as part of a stand but it would dry out and not hold. I tried wetting it but that had the complete opposite effect making it too weak to even tower up. So it's now screwed to the wall nice and high so that you can get a good view of it from a distance, which is how I'd like the piece to be viewed.
I'm going to play about with branches and logs propping it up to see if that makes it anymore authentic or organic, otherwise I'm happy with how it is.
