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The real tricky part for either color variation is going to be painting the manes on the bigger uni’s who have normal long horse manes….
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R Tolkienpegasi1978 wrote:Looks good, but I’m not a big quagga fan.
In reference to your title…well I think it depends on the base color of the skin. For instance, hubby and I know the answer to it for one of the male zebras at The ZOO – Northwest Florida is black with white stripes because he let down his privates and they were solid black.
Ha! Yes, I think the general opinion is that most zebras are black with white stripes, as their skin is black beneath their fur. Though there does seem to still be some room for wiggling on this according to some zoologists. Though I suppose even going by the rule of skin pigmentation, it might be a matter of opinion, because that would make polar bears black instead of white. 😉
I’m glad you guys like the new quagga! I’m going to paint the rest of the family like him, though I do intend to paint a family to match the first little guy at some point too… I do really like Quigga’s coloring, even if it isn’t quite ‘right’!
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R TolkienI am painting more quaggas! Most of a whole family, actually. I’ve got the momma and daddy unicorn ready to go, and if I can figure out how to hollow out the space for the horn on my one poor unpainted grand uni casting, I’ll do him too. (I snatched him from around the painters’ booths in the old factory – he had a pewter horn without any gold leaf already glued into his head… I don’t know what he was being used for. But we still don’t have any molds for this guy, so far as I know, so it was the only one I was going to get my hands on for a while!)
Anyway, I was looking through my folder of quagga reference pictures, noticing the differences between them. It’s one of the most wonderful things about playing with extinct animals – you never really know if you’ve got the color or sometimes even the muscle structure right. I based my first little guy mostly off of Quigga the quagga, from the Katurran Odyssey, illustrated by Terryl Whitlatch (which, by the way, is an amazing and beautiful book and I recommend it everyone http://www.katurranodyssey.com/. )
I have noticed that Quigga’s coloration, while very attractive, isn’t all that true to life according to the pictures I can find of preserved, stuffed quaggas and various old paintings / illustrations. (I do have a picture of the last quagga in captivity, but it is in black and white and not altogether helpful.)
SO – I am trying out a more accurate quagga color scheme. I tried it on the foal first, to make sure it looks alright (it involves putting lighter paint on top of darker paint, which doesn’t always turn out all that nice, so I was a little wary…) I really like the way he turned out, though the deep richness of his color doesn’t come through at all in these photos. Let me know what you guys think! 😉
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R TolkienMan, that carousel is SO COOL. I wish I’d gotten up to Albany to see it. Maybe you’d be willing to go again next time I come up to OR…? 😉 I want to see Quigga.
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R TolkienCongrats ddvm!! 😀
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R TolkienXD It’s kind of funny – I took some stone cats with me, with the intention of painting them like real cats. Like the special ones you’ve been selling the past couple weeks. OH WELL! XD Any ideas what I should do with them now?
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R TolkienI snatched a good deal of stuff before I left – although I think I’m missing one of the unicorns to complete the family? Maybe the young one? I’ll have to double check. So I could use a few of those for quaggas if you want a complete family.
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R Tolkiendrag0nfeathers wrote:Wow! I hadn’t even seen it yet and it’s already on ebay! 😮 Great job Arlla!
thanks – it kind of surprised me myself! XD I’m sending off the sketch for him now so that they actually have it before the auction ends…
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R Tolkiendrgnlvr wrote:I don’t even like Poadâ„¢s much, but that one is really a beauty!!! That’s the first one I’ve seen that I think is truly lovely!!! Especially with the light pink chest! Your little bird must be a real charmer!!! 🙂
She’s the best little bird EVER. ^_^ I love her dearly. And bourkes parakeets are exceptionally pretty – if you can find a nice tame one (which is difficult! even when they’re hand raised they tend to revert to being a little wild) I highly recommend them as pets.
Eek, I didn’t know the quagga was going up so soon! Well, good luck to everyone who likes him! 😉 I’ll try and work on a couple adults to match him…
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R TolkienMore foals, or more unicorns in the quagga family?
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R TolkienI’m still trying to think of a name for that mouse wizard…
I don’t think I ever posted a picture of this little guy… and this picture is terrible. Once again I forgot to take a pic of the completed piece while I was up in Oregon, so here he is with his eye and horn shopped on badly. He’s a unicorn foal painted to look like a quagga, an extinct relation of the zebra.
Though this is the only unicorn sculpture that has that nice zebra-like mane, Melody likes quaggas and wants me to do more – what do you guys think?? 🙂
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R TolkienThanks guys! 😉 I promise I’ll give you griffin lovers a break… maybe… I’ve got chicks I really want to paint but I’ll try to squish other things inbetween these and those…
I need to paint some dragons, but the smooth scales frighten me D:
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R TolkienThe snow leopard griffin family is finally complete. 🙂 I painted the chicks while I was up in Oregon, and *sigh* completely forgot to take any pictures of them before I left, so I can’t show you those. But here is the newly completed mama griff:
She’s a bit lighter gray than the male, and her markings are a tad fainter. She has all the same violet interference over her feathers and spots, and a soft golden glaze over her wing feathers like the male. She has lavendar eyes and amethyst colored swaovski crystals in her necklace and tail jewelery. Here’s a repost of the male:
Also, for anyone who missed the blog entry about her, here is the poad I painted to look like my pet Bourkes parakeet, now complete with her back stripe. 🙂
And one more little guy I was working on….
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R TolkienOkay, if I haven’t PMed you yet about your having won a piece, you need to PM me! But I think I got everyone…
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R Tolkien
