Jill’s PYOs

Nooot sure if my attachment is working correctly. ^^;; (Sorry if this is a duplicate file or didn’t work at all)

I’ve been playing around with alcohol ink on this hip’ & wanted to share a WIP. ^v^
Pinks/purples are ink
Blue/green is acrylic

I absolutely had a fun simplified mash of spots that spelled out an underwater scene on the back side of the neck. This was before I discovered the violet alcohol ink was [i]too powerful[/i] when I went to deepen some of the pinks on its edge and things bled [i]everywhere[/i]. Lesson learned, I sealed up the inks with some matte finish and moved on to acrylic paint after since adequate drying time.

I wanted to shoot for a fantasy pinto for the fore and a koi pattern for the aft. I’m definitely letting the muse guide me here & plan to go on with some washes & hitting the base before deciding if the hip’ itself needs more detail in the markings or not. ^^;

Background Phoenix is in limboland. He gets to hang out on the mantle so he can stare me down while I debate what I want to do to move forward with’m.

Thank you, Nightcrow. I’m still holding out hope that I can layer some acrylics to bring about that scene again… but we’ll see. :’) I had to set it down and let my attention be drawn to other things… like more pyo projects!

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As is tradition, I’m working on several pieces at the same time. The dragon here has a base of jacquard white pearl (mixed into an acrylic medium) and detailing added with alcohol ink. This experiment DID work in my favor, and with just a lil rubbing alcohol, the scales got some nice shading by fading the ink out from the scale base.

The blue kirin has had a lot more work done since this picture & I might be getting closer to finished with it. :>

The last kirin was based in matte black and then covered with interference gold. I really like how the green looks over it, and even better with a fade to blue. I can foresee giving it more attention in the near future.

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This photo set focuses mostly on the snerl that I’ve been working with alcohol inks. I’m not sure if the tea staining base made any difference since I’ve just been layering… and then layering some more.

Additional teal to purple color shifting pigments were added to some of the ruff and secondary feathers, as well as some green/gold that needed it’s BAMF toned way the heck down. I’m not sure I’ve found a good balance between detail and colors yet. :<

In the background is a pyo ori that I’ve modified quite a bit. It’s a project piece that I’m testing my new airbrush on. I also got some fun holo pigment for scale accents that looks pretty smashing next to the blue and teal shades, imo.

Phew! I think that sums up the past few weeks worth of progress. I sat on sharing any kind of update for too long. ^^;
Blank glass cabs are coming, so I may take a stab at making some custom eyes to finish off some of these pieces.

Bodine wrote:

Love the Hip and Snerl.Both very unique.

That’s super kind of you to say! The snerl definitely is speaking some kind of Atlantis theme to me- purely coincidental, but I like it! Might call it Lost Bahama. ^v^