Crocus

Crocus

This is the raffle prize for March! Her name is is Crocus. Crocus may not be the prettiest sounding name in the world, but a crocus is the very first flower to emerge out of the snow here! She is painted like the violet and coppery orange one that came up in our front...
Pupkats!

Pupkats!

I painted a baby meerkat like a puppy. Everyone thought they were so cute that we painted a batch of them. However, I can’t really explain why a meerkat would be painted like a puppy , but it seems to fit! These guys are in the store now!...

New Snerl

Took us a year to get this new mark stamped on the pads, but they have been starting to appear on pieces. Check any new pieces you’ve gotten and see if you can tell if Snerl is smiling or not. Unfortunately his face gets blurry on the smaller pads so you...

Sugar Plum Poads

I painted a batch of Sugar Plum Poads! This was fun, since there seems to be no consensus on what the heck a “sugar plum” IS, exactly, I was free to interpret it my own way. These poads are airbrushed with layer upon layer of metallic paint. I used...

Where's Windstone? Four turns from anywhere in the world.

Anxious to see what Windstone Editions was all about, I drove south of Corvallis a mile, then turned right at Murphy’s Tavern onto Wake Robin Ave., a long, straight, dead-end that I had never explored in my 15 years in Corvallis. I passed humble houses and an...

Choosing a nom de plume

An artist or writer should feel proud to sign their name to their work. Yet when I signed my name at the close of my first few Windstone postings, it seems somehow ill suited to the topic of dragons, unicorns and fanciful creatures. For the first time in my life, I...

Windstone – a rare find in the Northwest

I returned John Alberti’s call, and we had a marvelous, wide-ranging conversation. He explained that Windstone Editions is America’s premier makers of collectible “fantasy figurines” – dragons, griffins, unicorns, winged cats, flying...

Hello…Windstone calling

Windstone Editions entered my consciousness on the third Thursday of the month late in 2008. Just after 4 p.m., the house phone rang. Most business calls come in on the cell phone, so I let the call ring through to voice mail. When I picked up the message, I...

Welcome!

We’re very excitied to announce Windstone’s new blog. Our bloggers are inside and outside of the company and will give you a 360 view of all things Windstone! Enjoy!