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I wasn’t gonna post this until I finished up a few more PYOs, but after posting to EBAY it has yet to show up under a search. I have noticed lately an inability for me to locate other folks’ PYOs and auctions…sometimes they show and other times no when doing a search. Please let me know if you see a silver/blue/purple dragon PYO on ebay. If you looked and did not see it, see if this link works for you: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=300081783964&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=020 I’m tired of trying to get this to show. Maybe it’s a glitch that will correct itself tomorrow.
Well may the best bidder win then. I almost snagged Arlla’s jay wolf…but I’ll try harder this time to be there at auction close for your starling. It’ll be a perfect gift for someone I know because he owns a pet starling he rescued as a chick. The starling is not a paint job I’d ever see myself doing so I’m glad somebody did it so I can get that one instead! hahaha! You did it so well too! And your blending on the wing feathers look smooth like Dragonfeathers’. You keep getting better.
Aw you mean you’re making him for someone else? Man I was so hoping you were gonna post this to ebay so I could snag it! Bummer. It looks killer awesome and the uncolor of shimmery feathers is so very starling. I think it’s totally perfect.
I use a moist paper towl 100% of the time, and regular water. Depending on the consistancy of the paint, and how dark you want it to be, the less water you use. If you want a darker outline, go for broke and don’t add water to your brush to apply it. On my amathyst KiRin I had painted the scales in white, and once dry, I painted the pink hue directly over it very quickly, like I was applying a base color. Then, again quickly, I used the mist towel and wiped downward across the scales…down because you want the paint to stay in the crevice. It’s not 100% perfect on the first go, so do it again, and touch-up any areas where paint is where you don’t want it. For the inner thigh area, I add a touch of water to my brush and add the color I want to antique, and cover the scales. Some will drip down the inner leg of the Ki-Rin so try to watch that…you will probably need to touch it up later. Sometimes the water pooled the color perfectly in it’s own antique, other times you’ll need the paper towel again lightly. This is also true for dragon wings. I never use a paper towel on those, just some slightly wet paint and paint it around the wing until it pooled in the crevices.
My background as a 2d and 3D artist is really what made me do the OOAK thing but I can see where there’s be a problem with the text, so on future auctions I won’t list that, I’ll say something else I guess. I wouldn’t actually sell two pieces on ebay that were the same color…what I meant to say is that I’d sell the original on ebay…and then if somewhere down the line someone wants another, I’d do that.
I know some probably have issues with that, but for it’s it not really different than making prints of 2D artwork, with the original having costed more to sell anyway, but everyone else still able to get art like that…kinda. I know it’s not exactly the same since a machine produces exact prints and a repaint is still done by hand. This is where my OOAK comes from. As a former seller of hand-made clay figurines, and seeing other clay makers auctions, we all listed an item as OOAK even if we made say, 10 cats holding a heart all the same color clay and same pose…OOAK because even though there are replicas, the replicas are hand made and each unique unto itself…like painting a Windstone, no paint job can ever be the same.
But I will remove the OOAK on future auctions. I can’t now because I got bids and it won’t let me change the title now.
I don’t know what earlier removed posts said…I hjust got to read all this right now, but I do love and adore Windstones and it still boggles my mind that Melody made an entire line just for custom painters. Not even MLP or Breyer has done that specifically, yet they are a couple of the largest custom painted models out there. I do paint Windstone for profit since I do art for a living and go where the money tells me, but it doesn’t mean I don’t respect Windstone. It’s just that as an artist trying to pay bills, I try not to limit my options too much, so if 2 other people want the frog dragon, for example, without changes to the color scheme, I would do them on commission for them, and just number them, but still limit any reproduced paint job to 3 sole owners. Does that hurt the original in it’s value? I don’t really think so. I mean, to me they are all still hand-made originals.
I love this one…the colors used together are something I’d not considered before even though I had been thinking of a coral-type dragon. You’ve outdone yourself with this one.
Lol, well I would tell you I work full time and even on weekends sometimes. My hubby would tell you I am obsessive. Lol, but I have so many ideas! And now that I did the white mane version I may have to do more color blends in the white mane I did for the black mane, and visa versa…there’s just so many combos! I can’t stop! And since I can do them full-time, why stop? Lol…maybe because my hubby would like to eat something other than ramen, hahaha. Jokes aside, I do spend time with my hubby, just probably not as much as I ought to and I am trying to cut back a little.
I don’t think they care; the pharmasuticals are just in it for more money, and until the drug gets pulled off US markets, I don’t think it would get pulled overseas. They will keep the drug out there until the class action suit finally goes through (takes years), so in the meantime they make more money. But hopefully all the lawsuits will do some major hurt to them. It’s too bad now that more women are having to suffer and die needlessly over this. I’m personally highly outraged.
The researh was originally done and covered up for the US market…and even now doctors who know about the effects STILL PRESCRIBE IT! Luckily I have called up some various gynological offices and found that some have willingly stopped prescribing the drug. Others, I’m sure the doctors get kickbacks for getting more prescriptions on it for. Sad but true.
It has come to my attention that the Ortho Evra birth control patch has become a new popular form of birth control in South America and is now in their drugstores and being prescribed! I STRONGLY urge everyone not to ever take this drug and to make sure no women you know take it. This is a life-threatening drug! I cannot express enough how deadly this is…it has killed women, left some paralysed as a result of strokes, and has caused many many health problems as a result by nearly killing other victims, myself included.
PLEASE be sure nobody you know is using Ortho Evra anywhere, and do your research! This is a drug that is a silent killer still being prescribed and now is spreading to other countries regardless of the class action suit filed against the manufacturers!!
Women are losing their lives, and in some cases the inability to ever have children without serious complications. Please do not ever take or even think about taking the patch…your very life depends on this. I’m lucky to even be alive today from it.
I have been asked a few times to redo paint jobs that I’ve sold before, and for the most part I’m fine with that…but I’ve decided to limit this, because it’s not fair to someone who buys the original on ebay for over $150+ and then somebody else commissions for the same thing for less $$.
From now on I will limit any repainted pieces of mine to only 3 (with the exception of the autumn wolf, which will be 4 only because I’m making a gift version for someone as well as the current ones I have going for trades and/or commissions). That’s 3 INCLUDING the original version. All repainted paint jobs will be numbered then, 2 or 3 while the original remains unmarked.
OOAK to me means anything done by hand, not that a paint style is never ever going to be reproduced the same way. Perhaps I need to say that on my auctions a little more clearly. I think it’s fair enough though, and of course no personal commissions of characters, specific styles of paint laydown, or pets will be reproduced ever.
I just wanted to clearify a little and also give some of you hope if you wanted a certain paint job of mine but missed it on ebay the first time around.
The dragon was one of my most difficult ones. I choose to use Appel Barrel paints because they alone had the ideal colors I wanted…I also used a couple other brands too but the deep purple was Appel Barrel. Let me tell you, THAT brand of paint in now my nemesis, although they do have great colors. They don’t blend as well and you have to really work at it to get it to look good and solid. They are just as bad as using metallic paints, lol. But again, I have to say the extra efort is always worth it.
I definately adore the color scheme for those so you will be seeing that again on future pieces. It came out wonderfully. Light brown mane would work well too…a nice fint of creamy tan or something. It’s amazing in person…I do have to say it’s one of my best and I personally love how it came out. And I had been afraid to try white hair too.
