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Holy smokaroonies, MG! 😮 Now that is a Keeper with some serious detailing! I’d wondered what one might look like if somebody had the incredible patience and steadiness of hand to do a crazy-intricate paint job on it. Now I know.
It looks nice. 😀 Amazing work! I’d be carrying my eyeballs off in a bucket if I tried to do something like that. Eighty hours? I don’t think I could carry something like that off in eighty months. I can’t wait to see how you finish this beauty!
I particularly like what you did with the scales on the Muse’s right side. The color combination is amazing, and that wonderful wandering pattern comes as a complete and delightful surprise. The color scheme on the Muse overall is a very nice one. I have some yarn like that . . . LOVE it!
Nice colors on the Keeper–the wings show a particularly nice effect, and I like how you touched some teal onto his face.
Dragon Master wrote:BUT I need the rain to get a few things paid off and my missing Windstones for my collection before they retire
Then at least these storms are doing somebody some good! 🙂 Now if only I could persuade them to roll in on the workdays and let us be on my days off.
–Although I honestly have nothing to complain about today, because despite the clouds we had nary a drop of rain at the house, and I was able to finally get the bantams moved into their new pen! I sure hope they like being outside (instead of stuck in cages in the barn, like they were). There’s definitely some adjusting going on. One of the cochin hens has steadfastly refused to touch the ground: “That’s dirt! Yuck!” And when I locked everyone up for the night, the three Belgian banties had stuffed themselves into the nest box: “It’s cold out here! WTH?!”Oh, WSC! 😆 This reminds me of a discussion my sisters had one day about the family derrieres. They referred to Dad as the “bunless wonder” and Mom as “oh, no, not that.” (Mom is shaped something like a Weeble.) Of course both of my sisters are built like lingerie models, while I got the grand mix of styles: one solid butt, hold the perky. The darned thing always looks like it’s slid six inches south of where it ought to be.
Does anybody actually like their rump? Yes, some of us get fannies that look better than others, but there’s just something about them buns that makes one’s own difficult to love.
Thanks, DM! I appreciate that. 🙂
This was definitely a spur-of-the-moment thing, and we’d frankly forgotten what a nuisance moving those big panels around can be. If I’d had the sense of a goose I wouldn’t have tackled it that day, but apparently I don’t. 😉 We were just lucky to have the help of grayfire and her mum: if not for them, we’d still have been wrestling with those darned things when the rain returned.Next time we’ve got a project of this size, I’m going to plan it ahead a little better. Drat this rain anyway–it sure makes it difficult to get things done outdoors when it’s being perverse! We keep getting sunny days when we both have to work, and rain when we’re off.
Blowing green junk? Hang in there and I hope you’re feeling better soon, Koishii!
Grayfire: Agh, sorry that you guys got caught in such a mess of weather on the way home! 🙁 The hail never reached us, but some mighty cold wind came through. The chickies were really glad for their new shelter. They’ve been so jealous of Elwood and the rest of the birds up in the barn. Little do they know they’re soon going to get a barn of their own, and one that’s in better shape! 😆
I was very sorry to hear that you were sick! 🙁 These darned winter bugs are such a pain. I hope you’re feeling a lot better today. We missed you . . . and not just because of the coop project!
My husband’s right; I do get a little OCD where the chickens are involved. Jake and his girls had lost half their roof in that last storm, but I admit I could have just re-tarped their coop and let the matter go a little longer. It was just that we had the new roof ready to go, and in order to re-roof we needed to subdivide the coop and put up that center wall panel, and the sun was actually shining, and . . . yeah. Compulsive.
The method to all the madness, though, is that we’ll soon be able to put Jake and the girls out on pasture, and move the bantams into one side of the secondary coop and the Polish into the other. This will be a big step up for everyone involved! 🙂
It’s beautiful! I like it better than the copper-verdigris finish: the way the colors are applied to the edges of things really brings out the details of the sculpt. So glad this one is production! 🙂
. . . are people who drive over for a simple PYO swap, and when they discover you and your husband entrenched in the middle of a huge, back-breaking, we’re-only-doing-this-because-the-sun-is-shining-right-this-moment complete remodel of the secondary chicken coop, surrounded by a lake of really disgusting mud . . . and roll up their sleeves and step right in. We got that coop re-done in half the time it would have taken otherwise, and strapped the tarps down just as the rain rolled back in. And these wonderful people weren’t fazed by boot-devouring mud, stinky and slick as glass. Nor by the puddles of indeterminate depth until you stepped in them, and found muddy water soaking up your pants leg. Nor by the quarrelsome hens of our secondary flock, temporarily escaped from their coop and celebrating by running amok and picking fights with every other chicken that looked at them funny. They weren’t even fazed by lurking black widow spiders, pinched fingers, huge heavy coop panels, or the fact that the yard was anything but level and every five minutes things ground to a halt while my husband or I applied a frantic shovel. They even managed to keep reasonably straight faces while listening to me shower profuse apologies on the earthworms being so rudely churned up.
There are some amazing folks on this Forum, and even their parents are amazing. You know who you are; I’m just so touched by your tremendous Good Neighborliness that I had to come here and say something! 😀 Jake and his girls are loving their new, snug quarters, and our little bantams are one big step closer to being able to stretch their legs in more space. Everybody here thanks you, from the bottom of our hearts. :yes:
I hope to see more Black Magic Poads. This one was really lovely! Maybe if there are more, I’ll have better luck in the bidding. 😉
purpleturtle wrote:OMG! I love Abby from NCIS 😆 ! I really like the show to 😀 ….
Actually, Gothica doesn’t have any violet on her, but I see where you would think 😳 . She does have a interference of red on her tummy and chest, and dark silver highlights ( to bring out the mane and tail). The lighting was very bad when I took the photos 🙄 . I really need to buy a light-box at some point….NCIS is one of my favorite shows currently airing; NCIS-LA isn’t too bad, although Hetty takes the cake. 🙂 Anyone else think she looks like Edna Mode from The Incredibles?
Red interference? Whurps. 😳 Maybe it’s just my monitor . . . or my eyes. Red interference makes more sense with her eye and jewel color anyway. 🙂
purpleturtle wrote:I usually have the basic idea on how I want to paint a sculpt when I buy it. What happens most of the time is that initial concept evolves into something quite different from what I originally envisioned.
Me too! Or I’ll get the basic colors blocked out, look at it, go “Yuck!”, and start embellishing it until it hardly resembles the original game plan. Most of the time when doing that, I stumble across some layering or combination of colors that I absolutely love, and end up trying to rework the entire paint job to showcase that happenstance discovery.
I’m working on a dragon right now that was going to be shades of brown with purple highlights. Very plain, just browns with purple. So why do I now have a dragon that is six different shades of copper, tarnished gold, and chocolate brown? Those purple eyes are going to look darned silly in there. 🙄
The moonstone eyes are very interesting, although I can’t quite tell if there’s a pupil in them or not. Because of the way Windstones’ eye sockets are shaped to take advantage of that wonderful inset pupil that the PYO eyes have, a pupilless eye takes a little getting used to for me. However, a pupilless glowing eye is also very Anne McCaffrey-dragonish, and those are some of my favorite books ever. Plus a night-sky unicorn with moonstone eyes seems rather appropriate. 😀
Are those moonstone cabochons, or are they custom-made eyes? ‘Cause gosh, they could look very cool on a dragon . . . especially if they came in a blue or green tint.
The first PYO I tackled was a Muse, and for a similar reason to Megani-chan’s: that sculpt was one I felt I couldn’t screw up. I’d never painted much of anything before, certainly not a 3-D sculpt. Plus there were lots of things I wanted to try! So the Muse became a great experiment of about eight different color combinations and techniques, and I think she turned out surprisingly well all things considered. Quite a patchwork, but the sculpt allows for that. And it taught me what it was like to paint fur, feathers, and scales; I was really glad for that preview later on.
So far I’ve painted a few small dragons and griffins, two ki-rin, and a unicorn. Of them all, I think the dragons are the most fun to detail, but I also loved the ki-rin and the unicorn: the ki-rin for the nice big smooth scales, and the unicorn for its short fur that lends itself so well to blending from one color to the next. Frankly, I think you can have fun with whichever sculpt you choose. 🙂
