I was wondering… Zebra Unicorns

Uh, I have tried. The results were pretty awful. Stark black and white don’t airbrush real well, and hand painting looks so… painted.
But I will probably keep trying.

I’ve seen a couple PYO unicorns done with zebra stripes that look pretty awesome 🙂

I’d love to see Jennifer paint a unicorn with zebra stripes! (but I couldn’t afford it)

When I did my zebracorn, I used different shades of grey to have a more natural look. I didn’t antique, which would probably have given it a more shaded look, but it could be done. Them stripes that a reeeeeaaaally long time, though.

Dang , I forgot to give them a base coat of paint.

Do you guys have horns for these? I didn’t get any and wanted to make sure that they have them (somewhere). I wonder… aluminum leaf. Hmmm.

Whatever you do though, make sure you don’t antique it with gray. It makes black stripes on white look awful. I ruined a white tiger griffin this way. Dark brown might work though.

Jennifer, I too would like to see you do Male Unicorns in Zebra, Tiger, etc. I don’t recall you doing any unicorns before, (??) but I love your Griffins and your Labradorite themes. You have remarked on the bad economy and how time consuming your pieces are, but you are overdue for a special piece. Most anything you do will fetch a good price, even now, and I would love to see more Labradorites in any sculpt. Maybe even a Labradorite Unicorn?

I haven’t done any unicorns yet! 🙂 I only have one male unicorn here.

I don’t think that everything I’d do would fetch a good price; or at least, such was not the case with the two PYO phoenixes that I did most recently. Though the economy for things does seem to be getting better recently! 🙂 Which is great news.

I should just come right out in the open and say it! I may regret this but I am an open person even though it bites me in the butt sometimes. I am an artist and I love painting. I love painting my ideas and the things that I adore. Birds, fantasy, and so on. I love Windstones, too! They are gorgeous and honestly the best collectible fantasy statues out there. Melody is an INCREDIBLE ARTIST! I still get so excited when I look at the Windstones I own. They have touched my heart since I was a little girl, staring peacock Windstones and a kirin family in a glass display case in the 80s. And painting them is an artistic output, no doubt… but in the end I am painting something on someone else’s creation– Melody’s gorgeous sculptures– and while the paint job can make a piece, I suppose, in the end it is still painting on someone else’s work. While enjoyable sometimes, it is not an ongoing creative outlet for me. So when pieces don’t sell well– and this is the selfish part, I admit it!! — there isn’t a huge incentive to spend huge amounts of time painting things that are someone else’s work, when I could be painting my own work.

Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy painting Windstones. But it’s complicated, especially if there is a fear that they won’t sell well. I think that time is starting to pass? I don’t know! But the only way to find out is to see! So I will paint some unicorns and try to get this Labradorite Old Warrior finished (probably not this month though for him…). Let’s see how this goes. 🙂