[bluepony78]

I think I was on the right page then. I kinda figured it was more about the end product then how the peice got there.

I know the gal who said what she said. I’m not the first person she’s gotten crazy on. She’s kinda just out for airbrusher’s in general. She didn’t discourage me, she just made me wonder.

I’ve seen some lovely airbrush horses not sell for a dime, and some junkers sell for more than they were worth. Some artists likeChris Nandell paint entire horses by hand with oils, and will never change(BTW, AMAZING when done right, I had one once til someone offered me double what I paid).

Personally, I think I’ll just keep trotting along being me. I do my best work with an AB, and I often wish that the entire peice could be done like that, then I wouldn’t have to break out a paint brush at all. I have really shaky hands when I paintbrush, but not when I Ab. Go figure.

Honestly….gosh. I mix al my own paints, and make my own colors because no craft store I”ve ever been to has every color I’m looking for. But, while I do use excelent quality paints that have cost $5 fora small bottle, and the different medians, and all that, I have come to find(in my personal experince)

1-the most populars color in the world only lasts me a month, if i’m lucky(I started buying some of my browns in HUGE containers). Each horse takes 8-15 layers of airbrush paint. So, as I did tell that lady, i still have cost.(she was thinking I blasted the bay’s with brown, then black shading, not so….)

2-I still buy paint brushes, which I’m really hard on for some reason. Probably the 15 layers of white per sock. guess the brushes get bored too. Not to mention, repairing my compressor, general airbrush maintence(needles and tips get replaced every month or so, it gets oiled once a month, seals get replaced once a year, different cleaners to take care of it, ect ect ect)(and of course the actual cost of them!!).

She did, for a moment, make me feel cheap, til I pointed all that out to her. Course, then she shot back”well, you can still SELL your airbrushes” at which time i just stopped talking.

I donno. I just like to know folks thoughts. I have seen some airbrushed peices on paper that, done with masking and whatnot, were just KILLER. One guy asked me to paint his motorcycle, showed me the pic he saw in a mag.

But, I think that an AB, in the right hands, sure can add some niceness to a peice. I’ve noticed even on windstones, the parts that I got to AB are FAR better than what I had to do by hand(check out my newest wolf when his pix get approved, his wings are very pretty, the dog part stinks 🙁 ).

[bluepony78]

purpledoggy wrote:

I sent an email and haven’t heard anything either so maybe she just didn’t get to them all.

She probably got swamped 😀 Curls rock

[bluepony78]

This is just a random quesiton. I hope it’s where it ought to be.

I consider myself a pretty lousy artist overall. I draw stick animals, my trees look like weeds, you get the idea. However, i feel like with my airbrush, I can do pretty well. And I LOVE airbrushing. I could do it for hours ata time if my daughter didn’t require attention/food/clean diapers, and if the laundry would fold itself.

recently, well, a couple months ago, I was e-mailing a gal about model horses, and she lit into me. She told me that people who airbrushed cheated, and that SHE deserved more money than I did because she painted her horses by hand and in oils, and it took her a month to basecoat a horse, as opposed to me, whom it takes 5 hours for a real booger.(don’t do them too often). She also proclaimed that her paint was more exspensive, at which I kindly pointed out that my air brush and compressor setup was $400. She said my paints were cheaper though, and over the long run that ads up. 😕

SO, I just thought i’d toss that out there. I know a lot of folks here paint the PYO’s by hand, and I have one(well, started) one by hand, and started a coupel AB’d. I always went by the finished product, but what do YOU think. Does it cheapen it to know that someone airbrushed something?

Please don’t worry about offending me, I’m just curious. I’ll keep doing my thing, and it’ll either work or it won’t 🙄

[bluepony78]

Now we need to see some BABY K’s!!

[bluepony78]

I’m sorry, I realy wasen’t sure where to post this.

I’ve been trying to get at least SOMETHING up for my signature and avatar, mostly to figure out how to do it(not sure how I can design websites, but I can’t spell or figure out computer stuff to save my life)

I have the avatar pic saved at 4k, and it keeps saying it’s loading right.

The sig. I’m just not sure how to do…

Sorry it’s posted here. I’m sure there’s somewhere it’s posted….??

[bluepony78]

whippetluv wrote:

OH and Whippetluv’s Mystical Creature Hospital and Surgury Center is now offically open! 🙂

Good to know. Esp. around the holidays when the PO gets froggy with thier box kick-ball(kinda like Ace Ventura…..):D

[bluepony78]

starbreeze wrote:

Whippet, what an awesome repair!!!! Ski will be so pleased!!!! 😀

Agreed! Wonder when she’ll be on to see 😀

[bluepony78]

THANKS!

[bluepony78]

whippetluv wrote:

bluepony78 wrote:

whippetluv wrote:

bluepony78 wrote:

Nice Repair 😀 Looks like he made a friend too 😉

I know…I am such a dork. I had to take a pic of his girlfriend. She was heartbroken when I told her she had to stay and he was going back to germany. Poor thing….

So NOT dorkist. I think it’s great she made feel so welcome! Now, wonder if you’ll get a baby out of the deal 😯

Gosh. I wish it worked like that.. 😉
That would be cool…but they are both a touch young. They haven’t hit puberty yet! 😛
Now when I get my secret keeper (one day my princess will come….), I am really hoping she breeds with my rainbow warrior. The white and the rainbow should make a loverly pastel rainbow wonder!

😯 😯 That would make a gorgious little baby…(scratches head and wonders if I need to rush over to the Windstone site and order a dragon to try that out….)

[bluepony78]

whippetluv wrote:

If you want a scan of it I would be happy to…then you could print a copy of your own. Its a cute little history story.

really?? That would rock!! 😀 😀

[bluepony78]

whippetluv wrote:

bluepony78 wrote:

Nice Repair 😀 Looks like he made a friend too 😉

I know…I am such a dork. I had to take a pic of his girlfriend. She was heartbroken when I told her she had to stay and he was going back to germany. Poor thing….

So NOT dorkist. I think it’s great she made feel so welcome! Now, wonder if you’ll get a baby out of the deal 😯

Gosh. I wish it worked like that.. 😉

[bluepony78]

Nice Repair 😀 Looks like he made a friend too 😉

[bluepony78]

Gotta get one! That’s my favoite windstone “mold” I think of them all. I just adore the three I have now. I can’t wait to get another! My husband just laughs. 😀

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Rusti wrote:

the cards came with them. The shopkeeps that had these kept everything in the boxes for at least these two.

All the dragons were lacking theirs.

Thanks!
Maybe I’ll just make up some nice ones and print them off.

So, do they still come with those cards, or did they stop doing that?

[bluepony78]

WOW! Gorgious!

Got a question. Are those nice cards something that came with them, or did you make them? I’ve been thinking(since nothing I have came with them) actually makeing some for fun. My friends love looking in my curio, there’s always something intresting in there 😀

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