This is the clayed-up male foo dog about to have his first mold made. You can get an idea of what he looks like. Both front feet are down., like the foo-mom. If you guys REALLY want me to change him so that he has his front foot up so it can be on a … Read more
The Ocelot griffin chicks, both sitting ones and crouching ones, and lavender Young Oriental dragons are just about to get packed up and put in the store. They are so cute.
These are four of the new things, in the mold department. They have had a layer of clay put over them. This is the first step in the mold making process.For some reason, I’ve always found this stage of the process to be beautiful.I guess it is because I like to see the forms simplified. … Read more
We have been test painting a few dragons in “Lavender Pearl”, like the curlies. What do you think? We changed the antique color from brown to dark lavender. I think it makes them look better.
Here is a comparison pic of the buckskin color and the Przewalski’s color. We are going to put a few of each into the store tomorrow, but I don’t think I will paint huge numbers of either of these two colors. The high contrast of the black against the light body of the Przewalski’s is … Read more
The dragon on the left is a new dragon . He is about the same size as the the “Young Dragon” (the dragon on the right) As usual, we don’t know what to call him! We are looking for a name for the mold, not an individual name for the dragon, like Arthur or Fluffy, … Read more
I hate August. Too hot and too many zucchinis around. To compensate for my foul mood, I refinished a beautiful little Young Oriental dragon as the August prize. This is “Redbow”. He is a young oriental dragon with a tiny dent in his belly scales, but he is otherwise a gorgeous “red fire” piece that … Read more
I did something wrong when I uploaded page 19 of the Veligent in a mad rush this morning. It is there, but doesn’t show up in the table of contents. Here is a link to the page if you would like to see it http://windstoneeditions.com/veligent-page-19. I think I know what I did wrong …ok, I … Read more
I am going to draw a winner for Fire Water the raffle prize tomorrow, around 5pm instead of today. Entries that were sent to the Windstone email, instead of my email, have been turning up in the spam folder. I want to be sure to enter everybody, so we are going to wait till all … Read more
This fine male dragon is painted in a mish-mosh of colors. Fire Water was a paint experiment done on a “rescue” piece, like most of the raffle prizes. He may still have a pinhole bubble or two, though I repaired all the ones I could find. I airbrushed him with a reddish color on the … Read more
This is the first test paint I did of the NEW hatching dragon. This little guy will replace the OLD hatching dragon. The OLD hatching dragon is almost impossible to paint quickly enough for us to afford to sell it at a reasonable price. It has so much “edge” area where the different colors have … Read more
The female foo dog! She is pretty much finished! Marco, our mold maker, will now begin the production-mold making process. This takes a little while, it involves both replicating many rubber molds from the finished “master” , and creating precise rigid “carriers” to support the production molds when they are filled with liquid gypsum. Sit. … Read more
Melody Peña: local sculptor and graphic novelist This got published in the local free paper, here in Corvallis, today! Yay!
I painted a batch of ocelot griffins. These are for the store, limited production. What color eyes should they have? Real ocelots have dark brownish-olive colored eyes. These griffins look good with periwinkle, or orange or brown or beige or, Pam will kill me, but green too. None of our eye colors match the metallic … Read more
