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Deciding to make some of my friends PYOs for Christmas means a heck of a lot of painting! I’m almost done with the Christmas presents though. (But they’ve given me a ton of ideas for PYOs I want to make for myself, or just to put up for sale.)
Anyhow, this one is the MOST fun, although also a ton of work! It glows in the dark, how awesome is that?! Although glow in the dark paint is awful to work with. It’s thick and gloopy, but takes a million coats. I had to stop before getting it perfectly smooth, because it was so thick it was starting to obscure the fur detail. (There’s like seven coats of it.) Also painting all those stripes… seven times each. Holy crap.
The design of this critter isn’t mine, it’s a character belonging to a friend of mine. I probably wouldn’t have inflicted all those stripes on myself!
But the end result was totally worth it, it came out amazing! (And has prompted me to get in some glow in the dark pigment powders, in hope that this will make painting glow things a little easier. We’ll see.)
I know exactly what you mean about the Glow paint – I test painted a turtle and with two Thick coats you can hardly tell!
Let us know if the powders work better.
Great job on the Neon Kitsune BTW! 🙂IN SEARCH OF MY NEXT GRAILS:
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*** Come visit me on deviantArt at http://ela-hara.deviantart.comWow, that glow in the dark paint looks awesome !! Good to know its a tad hard to work with though, I may not ever bother getting any then, since its so pricey anyways 😉
Wow, that glow in the dark paint looks awesome !! Good to know its a tad hard to work with though, I may not ever bother getting any then, since its so pricey anyways 😉
Well, the stuff I got was cheap crap. 😀 If you get something that isn’t a children’s craft set, for $5, you might get something at least slightly better!
(I didn’t buy it for this project, but I had it on hand when I had the idea, so I figured I might as well go ahead and use it.)
love the way the kitsune glows!!
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Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comNeat effect on the kitsune! I know what you mean about the cheap glow in the dark paint. Tried it on something else in a single coat…ended up with a very faint eerie glow. The glow you got is much better. You’ll have to let us know how the powder pigment version does.
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https://www.redbubble.com/people/prezaurian?ref=artist_title_nameWhew! The last of the Christmas present PYOs for my friends is done. (The last six things I’ve posted have been gift PYOs.)
This adorable little guy is mixed media. Mostly watercolor, but the white stripes are acrylic. (Because trying to leave them white while using watercolors would be an exercise in futility.) I LOVE how he came out. Sometimes simple designs are the best designs.
Since I finally have the Christmas PYO project off my plate, I have the time to take a few commissions now, if anyone’s interested. They’d be finished probably early January, but possibly sooner, if I get bored of sewing and decide to do some more painting this month. (I probably shouldn’t, I have a lot of sewing to do, but doing the same thing every day gets really old sometimes. Anyhow.) My rates can be found at the bottom of the commission artist sticky. I am open to negotiation, and to trades too. 😀
(Also, the fire muse is still looking for a home, just fyi. Totally willing to negotiate on her price, or trade her for something, I’d rather see her go cheap to somebody who’d love her than sit here being ignored.)
Dang it, I just got the BEST idea for a kitsune paint job, but the store is out of kitsunes. 🙁 I need another foo pup too, but I don’t want to order just to get a foo pup.
Testing out an idea on this little guy. Not sure how I feel about it, honestly. It’s a combination of the Willow color scheme and the Stone color scheme from the kirin and kittygriff I did. I like some bits of it, but I still don’t know if I want to scale it up to the adults or not. I need to get in some more pups to do some more test paints. Also I want to give him different eyes, I don’t like the blue eyes. (They’re not glued in yet, so I can change them.)
Green eyes might look good on your Stone Willow Foop if you can get them. Perhaps similar in color to the tail?
Nice colors on the Foop – I like them very much. 🙂IN SEARCH OF MY NEXT GRAILS:
Black Peacock & Butternut Adult Poads
Kickstarter 'Rainbow Tiger' Bantam Dragon*~*~*~* Ela_Hara: The DragonKeeper *~*~*~*
*** Come visit me on deviantArt at http://ela-hara.deviantart.comGreen eyes might look good on your Stone Willow Foop if you can get them. Perhaps similar in color to the tail?
Nice colors on the Foop – I like them very much. 🙂I was thinking either green, or the metallic periwinkle. (There’s a little purple interference on there, and I think it would bring it out.)
Here’s what I’m working on right now:
Some bits of it are coming out nicely, some I’m struggling with. And this is another watercolor one, which means you can’t just paint over the bits you change your mind on, you’re kind of stuck with them.
You guys ever get discouraged when your projects just aren’t doing what you want? (Or when people don’t seem to like the ones you really liked?) I’m kinda blah right now. Mostly it’s because of the light, since I have Seasonal Affective Disorder, but artistic frustration doesn’t help.
Very nice work.Love the Kitsune!
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Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.After shooing the cat out of my lightbox, I got some pics of my latest PYO. It’s another watercolor one, doing a little bit more experimenting with what I can do with it. (You can’t antique with it, exactly, but I got a sorta similar effect this time. Needs more experimenting to perfect, I think.)
It’s very loosely based on a kingfisher and a flame-point siamese cat.
It’s also for sale, I’ll be sticking it up in the classifieds later. 🙂
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