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I would love to see silver OWs too as a limited production. Could something be done with changing eye color? Or perhaps the way to go would be to make some other alteration to the paint styling. I’m thinking along the lines of what they did with the two versions of the Gold Lap. There were the butter-yellow ones that resembled actual gold, and then the brassy ones that looked more like the production Golds. If an LP batch of Silver OWs was produced that had darker shading, or the inclusion of some other color entirely like steely blue highlights, then perhaps they could look different enough from the earlier ones to smooth the matter over. Just a thought.
Personally, I’m fond enough of the the Silver coloration and the OW sculpt to not mind a bit if the scheme was tweaked in either of the above directions. 🙂
I order from an on-line art supply called Dick Blick. They’ve got good prices and I haven’t had any problems with them or the paints. They seem to carry the entire Golden line, in both the tubes and the little bottles.
TDM, just one other potential avenue for the vitamin D deficiency thing: if you should run into trouble resolving your symptoms even when taking extra vitamin D, part of the trouble may lie in your body’s ability to convert regular vitamin D into the active form. While I don’t know diddly-boo about human medicine, I do know veterinary medicine. In mammals, vitamin D from food is converted by the liver to calcidiol, and then converted again in the kidneys to calcitriol, which is the form that the body actually uses. The important thing here is that there are two conversion steps that have to happen properly in order for the body to be able to use vitamin D. And any time there’s a conversion step, there’s the potential for a faulty enzyme or mechanism.
The discussion of a possible similar issue with your vanished great-grandfather was what got me thinking along these lines. A genetic glitch in the body’s ability to convert vitamin D to calcitriol is totally possible. It wouldn’t be a complete failure of the conversion, because that would be fatal. But a partially flawed enzyme or conversion, those happen, and they frequently lie hidden until special circumstances show them up.
Your doctor is almost certainly correct in that the lack of sunlight this winter is the cause of your trouble. (It’s also possible that genetics could play a role here, making it harder for your skin to manufacture its own vitamin D.) But just in case . . . just on the remote chance that you continue to have troubles, or don’t get a complete resolution . . . then there might be a little more to fixing the problem than getting more vitamin D in foods. I know that calcitriol itself is available as a medical treatment. But it’s definitely possible to overdose on vitamin D in any of its forms, so I’m sure they’ll go carefully in your treatment until they know what exactly you need.
I hope that things are going much better for you very soon! (hugs)
Gorgeous!
Wow, grayfire, you’re doing some great stuff! I laughed when you said that you’d done some of the painting while feverish: when writing, I’ve found one benefit to a fever is that it switches off the internal editor, making it easier to be creative. But I’m hard pressed to go out and court a case of the flu just so’s I can get past my writer’s block. 😉
I LOVE the hackles and tailfeathers on your latest phoenix! Zowie! And the Metal Oxide Keeper is delightfully bright, but I particularly like that little patch of large shoulder scales that pull in a little sheen of light blue and lavender on top of their other colors–nice effect!
I think the best source for Golden Interference paint is on-line; I’ve used Dick Blick and they have good prices. The interference paint comes in both a little bottle and a big tube . . . unless you plan to paint a canvas, get the little bottles. It’s cheaper and you really, really, really won’t use that much of it. (Says she who freaked out and bought 3 tubes at Michael’s. :stare: )
Coming out of the bottle, interference paint looks milky and opaque with a faint sheen of color. Doesn’t look like much! Painted over white, you just get a pearly effect. Painted over black and WOW! Mega color! From what other painters have said, the key to making interference look its best is to use it in thin layers. I’ve also seen some beautiful effects with interference laid very thinly over a color, like green interference over brown, but I haven’t been bold enough to try that yet.Ooh, new site up! It’s displaying fine on my system (comes as a bit of a surprise on this ancient monitor) 😮 I don’t see the “squishing” effect. Of course, it may have already been fixed by now. 😉
tethra wrote:😀 Could you use a nice thick square scarf of something instead to make it a little more elegant? ‘Cause weedmat cloth is so nice to look at….. 😆
I’m sure I could, but I really wanted something designed to block light, and unfortunately I didn’t have a piece of regular fabric that was large enough. It’s OK, though: the cloth faces away from the main part of the room. And our living room is furnished in Neo-Tatty College Student Hand-Me-Down anyway, so it rather blends in. 😆
I don’t think so. From what I can recall of prior discussions, whether an Oriental dragon turned out Light Peacock or Dark Peacock depended on the painter. I could be wrong, but looking at the comparison photos, it looks as if a dragon’s final appearance (Light vs. Dark) depended on two things: the base color, and how much of each color the painter layered on over the base. I believe Melody said at one point that the Light and Dark extremes more or less “evolved” during the production of the pieces.
For myself, I find it really interesting that there are Light and Dark Peacock Orientals, but only Light Peacock OWs and Laps, and only Dark Peacock Males, Mothers, and Youngs. I wonder if the production of the Orientals in Peacock overlapped that of these two groups, and the paint variance stemmed from what each painter was accustomed to using on other molds. But that’s only a guess. :shrug:
I read this and found myself nodding over Nam’s cautions regarding full-spectrum lighting. Recently I adopted a veiled chameleon, and the best place to put his big cage was right beside a couple of curios with Windstones. But chams need full-spectrum lighting. So he has his special light . . . aimed away from the curios . . . and with a sheet of weed-blocker cloth between the cage and the curios too. The overall effect is not exactly elegant. 😆
I go back and forth on the Sand dragon. While I really like his blue eyes against his browns and cream, and I can definitely see how the blue on his wing and accent scales ties in with the eyes, I don’t know . . . maybe it’s because the blue is a little too “shallow” in appearance? Too reflective–I keep thinking that it looks icy rather than like water running across sand. I know I run into that problem with metallics on PYOs, and usually I get around it by glazing over the metallic with a similar, darker color. But that’s a matter of personal preference.
I like the combination of brown base and blue accents a lot. And the brown body and cream belly combination is marvellous! 😀 Yum!
Regarding the “Ticked Pink OW”: I think “ticking” refers to flecks of strong color in an animal’s coat, usually at the end of the guard hairs. And wow, aren’t those eyes gorgeous! What a great combination they make with his color scheme!
OH! 🙁 Drgnlvr, I am so sorry; what a horrible thing. This is one of my personal nightmares too, and it makes me want to curl up, seeing it actually happen to you.
It sounds as if you have already gotten the worst of the cleanup and reorganizing done, but if you need an extra set of hands for sorting-out and triage, please let me know.
I am praying that the insurance company will come through for you. I don’t suppose there was a minor quake recorded on the monitoring stations in your area? If the metal brace was marginal, it wouldn’t have taken much of a shock to make it twist along a hidden flaw. We get little shakers all the time in this state and most of the time we don’t even feel them, but the monitors pick them up.
Bingo! And I see this dove is very considerate: it’s brought along a dollar to pay for all those lunches it’s been getting during rehab. 😉
