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Regarding the Facebook question, I’d love wolves, but I’d heartily welcome the bat-eared foxes first. Mostly because they’d cost less and help my budget recover from those beautiful hoppy poads!
Now, to speak from a perspective of complete self interest. As a disclaimer, the Windstone folks don’t owe me a darn thing, and Melody both can and should do as she pleases. With that said I’d love the Grab Bag batches to alternate being painted by Melody and the production painters. The thing is most production painters could say… turn out a batch of baby Unicorns painted with siamese cat or buckskin markings in a variety of fantasy colors. But Melody alone has the ability to work on Reptangle or a new sculpt.
Hi Nienoriel, For the applying of paint, (and what kind of paint) there are good threads which may take some work to fish out, but are well worth it.
For deciding what to paint, there are a few techniques.
One is to take a line drawing of a dragon and color it, as a test run. Always a safe bet.
Another is to copy an idea from nature, or pick and choose things from nature. I’d recommend grabbing some photos and seeing what’s common, and what’s not. For example, look at a monitor lizard, and a falcon. Pretty different on the surface. But they each have (depending on the species of lizard to some extent) a dark stripe running up to, or across from the eye, and both have a paler belly and darker back. The eye stripe either protects from glare, or helps the eye blend in for camouflage. When you look up, the sky is bright. When you look down, the earth is dark. A paler belly blends in more when a creature is above you, when a creature is below you, a darker back blends in. And paler bellies and darker backs are extremely common in nature. Once you learn the basics of what markings are useful for animals and why, that’s half the battle.
Then let’s say you want to make an amethyst themed dragon. Following the above theories, the belly might be a pale lavender or white, the back might be a darker purple, and maybe there’s a chevron pattern on the wings (or on choice scales) that the dragon might use for courtship, or instead, maybe there’s eyespots on the wings in a contrasting color to frighten predators.
For choosing the eye and gem color, there’s two schools of thought, to make it blend in with the color scheme, or to make it contrast. Both look nice. I’d recommend getting the eye and gem color in a very similar color to tie the piece together and make the design process easier. Different color eyes and gems can be done well, but it complicates things.
This is a bit rambly, but I hope it helps. I’m sure some other people will chip in with their favorite techniques. (Edit: when I say other, I don’t mean to discount 96307’s post, but I didn’t see it till after I posted!)
Hmm, what about an Intergalactic Roan?
That Blue Roan is stunning, and so are the new Intergalactic test paints on Ebay. Maybe combine the two?
Got a nice little red fox!
I’d have loved to get him a buddy, (or a cute little arctic) but my budget is cranky enough at me…
Edit: Laurie, might be worth keeping an eye on them, neither have the ‘notify’ button yet.
Dang that Old Warrior was gorgeous.
Have to say I really like Shimmering Embers too. My compliments, Dragonfeathers.
If it isn’t too close to Violet Flame or Amethyst, I’d love to see it as a limited production color.
Man, I’m sorry.
IMO, bringing him home is a good call, whatever happens.
Your little guy is in my thoughts.
Yikes, that’s scary.
Please take what follows with a 5 lb bag of salt.
In humans, Magnesium is good for the nerves, and for the heart. Occasionally it can help with nervousness, low-energy, mental issues, and reduce PMS symptoms. It can also accelerate the erm… ‘output’ of digestion. In humans low on Magnesium, it gets drawn from other parts of the body to be used in the blood, so by the time it gets low in the blood, it’s pretty low.
In humans, not all forms are easily absorbed. Magnesium Citrate is one easily absorbed form, and there are a few others. (please keep in mind the digestive output that is a side effect of large doses)
I know nothing about Magnesium in dogs, or as a supplement for dogs. But considering in humans it’s good for the heart, and considering Max is testing low for Magnesium, it may prove a productive line of inquiry. (a regular vet could probably tell you about safety, but you may need someone into holistic animal medicine to give you the full story.)
Best of luck with your little guy.
Blue morpho would be beautiful and a very safe bet, blue roan would also be beautiful, A pale, soft wintery white with bits of blue and a pink muzzle might be adorable.
Toasted pearl might be twitchy to arrange all those soft shades right, (natural-ish markings perhaps?) but it might be astonishingly beautiful. Suspect I’ll like whatever you come up with.
Yup. I’m in the East Bay. Woke me and my pup up, knocked over three Breyer models, and we had to check the propane. (which was safe) No harm done though.
It’s kind of funny though. I’m fine with Earthquakes and accept wildfires as an inevitable risk. But hurricanes, tornadoes and blizzards give me some serious shivers. I’ve heard from folks back East, that they’re fine with hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards etc, but if the ground starts shaking, no way! I guess we’re all used to our own disasters.
Looks like a perfect start to me.
The Golden brands have a crazy amount of concentrated pigment, so I often work 1-2 drops paint to 10 drops medium, but the Liquitex is less concentrated.
Hardly the best thread, but scroll down on this thread, and there’s a painting progress description of one of my first pieces with several in-progress shots. http://windstoneeditions.com/forum/maplecarvers-pyos-wolfey-page-2 The poor girl horrified me at first, but turned out pretty well.
IMO your muse will turn out quite nicely.
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