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The new arrival (apologies on pics; I literally just got home from a 5+ hour medical appt, so it’s just the camera phone for now):
Daylight on the windowsill for color reference:
Green eyes & gem. Your guess is as good as mine on the markings–any ideas what he’s modeled after? (Friend also notes he appears to be in the store photo, at the top.)
I adore palaminos & buckskins, and he’s very cute–but I did want stripes pretty badly, so he *may* be available if he was someone’s favorite.
Oh, Hannah, she’s stunning! (starts daydreaming about a whole series of Celtic knot-work critters–yeah right, like I could get the line edges that smooth!) Love the shading as well.
Sigh. Wish PYO unis would come back into the store…
Have a question on PYO eyes for a griffon. I am not happy with the color I choose, where would a good place be to get nice ones that don’t cost a lot? I tried that Tohickonglasseyes place and the order has not shipped yet, not been charged to me yet, and I get no response on my attempts to find out what is going on. The other two links listed on the first post of this thread do not work, at least for me. So does anyone know a good site other than tohickonglasseyes? Thanks!
I think that Windstone may be willing to exchange them for another color. Did you try asking Susie?
I haven’t no…I would be happy to exchange them…the light brown is darker than I hought it was an it is just not suitable for me. I’ll try that, thanks! Though I’m still curious of other eye sites for future knowledge =)
Definitely send Susie an email. She’s probably a bit swamped with the GBB’s for the next day or so, but they’ve been very accommodating of eye swaps.
Something’s definitely wrong with the Store. If you click on the babies from the front page, it says out of stock. If you access it from the Unicorns page, it will pass you through & put one into your cart.
Lordy, for Melody’s sake, I hope they’re not going to have to paint more because it oversells again.
They came into the store at 4:20…strange it wasn’t at the hour like it usually is. Is Melody trying to tell us how she gets the ideas for these amazing awesome patterns? 😉
LOLOL!
I’ve been completely heads down writing all day, like, “head in the clouds, forgot what universe I’m in” heads down. By some miracle, I looked up from the laptop, tapped on the ipad & checked mail just after it arrived. I’m stunned; I thought for sure I’d miss this one.
I think he is wonderful Jolie and you did a great job. I have to say for a beginner like me you are kicking my butt in the talent department. Do not throw him……..he’ll just fly off……look back at you……stick his tongue out and go Pwwwwwwww. Off he’ll fly into the sky thinking…..I don’t know what the hell she thinks is wrong with me cuz I’M PERFECT JUST THE WAY I AM!!!! HEHE Trying to make you laugh!! Hope it helped!! 🙂
LOLOL–yes, it did. And you’re right, Mr. Attitude Problem probably would do just that!
Give him to ME please do not smash him!! :love:
Honestly, the ‘patchy’ bit made me think of clouds at night lit by the moon or the like.
Whatever you do, please do not chuck him out the window! He is beautiful!
But he has wings–he’ll just fly if I open the window, right? 😉 (I’m sure he’d fly just fine…the landing, however…!)
LOL–his main nickname since I started has been “annoying shiny wolf”. Partly for his reflectiveness, of course, partly for his reproachful expression when he sits on my desk, partly, of course, because he’s been an utter annoyance to paint. And partly for the “ooh, shiny!” grabby hands effect he seems to evoke. My best friend has already claimed him repeatedly. :bigsmile:
Thanks to all of you for the reassurance. I think what bugs me the most is that this one is an intensely personal paint job, so much so that I’m not sharing his real name. He’s based on one aspect of a character I created, and in some ways that makes it harder that it isn’t coming out “perfect”. And as we know, I can’t seem to get past that whole perfectionist thing!
For now, I’ve set him aside. on the other end of the office where I can see him in different lights at different times of day I’m a little afraid to do anything else to him right now, for fear of making things worse. And it might also be that I’m a little burnt out. He’s been more of a challenge than I thought he’d be after getting the blending right on canvas. I’ve spent so many days with these paint colors now, I’m a little sick of them.
Meanwhile, I’m doing the basecoat on a small dragon that I have no color scheme for. I’m thinking if I just leave the wolf alone for a few days, I can look at him with clearer eyes and then decide if there’s anything else that needs to be done.
The feedback on the blending does help. I hadn’t really thought about the real wing look or the “cloudy” effect, but now I do see both of those. Of course, now I’m tempted to actually ADD clouds. :p
Grrr….
All right, here goes.
(First off, this guy is proving impossible to fully capture on camera. I’ve decided he’s part ghost. Or vampire. LOL Seriously though, all those metallic reflective surfaces facing every which way are driving me buggy.)
“Night Wolf”–PYO in progress (pic is clickable for larger shot):
I actually managed to do pretty well wet blending on canvas with the same blue metallics. And in the house, he still looks pretty decent. But here, the blending is all off–instead of a relatively neat, smooth transition, he looks patchy. That middle shade is suddenly WAY brighter blue than it should be, and it covers most of the center of his wing. (pic is a bit more contrasty than it should be to show colors a little closer to real–even so, most of the colors in the coat are too subtle to see in this pic)
I’m at the point now where I can’t remember if I added interference blue Pearl Ex to this batch of paint or not, but I don’t think I did. Paint is Sargent Liquid Metal blue, mixed with WN Galeria Mars Black–a tiny bit of black for the lightest shade, more for the middle, etc. Added both Golden’s Retarder & Liquitex’s Airbrush Medium (which thins the soft body Galeria a bit more than anything else I’ve tried, and worked *really* well with normal brushes on canvas), and used a wet palette to keep paint workable throughout. His eyes aren’t glued in yet, no clear coat in place, so he’s theoretically still fixable.
Correcting the shading is going to be a PITA with those stars in the way. Is it worth doing?
Do I just touch up the spots I truly can’t stand, and remind myself this was a first attempt?
Throw it onto the concrete driveway from my second story office & start over?
Other suggestions? (including ones not related to the wings)
(And don’t get me started on the black undercoat/drybrush routine. Even with two HUGE daylight balanced photo floods to work by, macros I took outside still show dozens of tiny specks of white where the base coat apparently didn’t reach. Plus, it turns out I suck at dry brushing even more than at blending. I know, practice practice practice. Sigh.)
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…kiwi lap….!
And those poads were some of the prettiest of the batch. It was so hard to keep my wallet in my purse over a couple of them.
Update: He has decided not to sign them over. So court is set for the 31st of May. Which he says he will be on vacation…he asked me to change the date and I said no…so we’ll see what happens…
Again thank you everyone for caring and letting me vent. Hugs!!!
To be continued in May…
Good lord, what an idiot. The judge is going to read him the riot act.
And good for you for standing your ground on the court date. Clearly his kids are his priority over his precious vacation… *rolls eyes*
Hang in there. It’ll be done with soon.
I recall someone else saying that they’ve missed recent restocks of the dragons because they were never sent an email and they thought it was because of the eye/jem selection. Does selecting the eye/jem colors actually affect if you’ll be sent the email or not?
Yes, you do need to pick an eye and gem color. But it won’t let you put it on the watch list without doing so. I don’t think it matters what color you pick, just that you pick one of each ;).
No, I know you have to pick the colors. What I was saying was that someone in another post said they hadn’t received any back in stock emails for the past 2 or 3 restocks. So they were thinking it was because of the eye/jem colors. I was asking if that’s true – if the colors matter.
I *thought* someone indicated that they had picked specific colors, and hadn’t gotten emails; someone else had picked just the first color listed in each drop down (eye/gem), and *had* gotten the mails. I know I do the latter and have been notified every time.
The spectrals look amazing together–love their matching fuzzies! To me, the pink sitting spectral has just the right balance between pink and the other colors; not too much and not too little. Great pair!
