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That’s completely fine with me Pheonixxfox! 🙂
And just as a reminder for the future – there is no cut off date for submitting images to any of the galleries! You are more than welcome to send me images for past batches of any gallery that you see in my signature 🙂
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!I’ll try to remember that Cel! 😀
And just so there is no confusion on this in the future – there is no cut off date to get your images in to me – I will always accept images for any of the galleries at any time – it may take me a bit longer to get stragglers in their proper homes because when I do a gallery I tend to focus on one for a while, but they will get in there eventually (and with a reminder or two 😉 )!
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!Thank you Celestial! 😀
And lol – Siri, it’s been a while since I made the announcement, I’m not surprised you forgot! XDI do have some more time before school starts, so I will start another thread for the Colts – it’s likely they will take just as long to get online, but I can hope to be more punctual at least ;D
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!And here we go! I have updated the page. There are 30 so far! Please read the first post and send me yours if you don’t see it listed and want to see it!
http://www.deadbunny.org/gbmk/
I have also added a picture link to my signature for the gallery 🙂
Thinking about doing one of these for the colts as well, but only if there is sufficient interest 🙂
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!Thanks for the reminder! XD I have to get moving on this before school starts again and I am busy all the time! I’ll try to get it done this week 🙂 I have about 20 entries so far!
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!I got this guy in a blind trade – he’s a cute little scatterbat leaf uni with fall colors 🙂
He will be up for possible trade and possible sale 🙂
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!He is beautiful Syn! Congratulations 🙂
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!I have never used retarder, just Golden’s Acrylic Glazing Liquid to extend the working time of the paint and give it a bit of gloss. What does the retarder do differently? Do others on here use that as well?
Retarder just extends the life of paint and thins it a tiny bit (hardly enough to notice!). Without retarder, my paints might last (covered) for about 3 days. With retarder, they can last 2 weeks. On top of that, when your paints are uncovered as you are working with them, the retarder greatly extends their drying time. As far as I have seen, retarder does not add any extra gloss or shine to the finished paint 🙂
So anyone ever use liquitex ultra glossy varnish ? I would like to see a pic of a piece finished with it. I like a glossy finish, but not so much so that it looks cheap.
I use Liquitex High Gloss Varnish for my paint-on varnish. I assume its about the same thing as what you have. It’s very liquidy and you don’t need much on your brush to start painting it on, or it drips everywhere! The flap cat in the following picture has wings that are varnished using this. The fur on the cat was sprayed with a matte topcoat.
You may want to consider spray-on topcoats if you get tired of painting the varnish on. Spray-on topcoats have a distinctly different “feel” to them when they are dry compared to the liquid paint-on varnishes that I’ve used. I prefer the feel of spray-on topcoats when I can use them because (and this is purely my opinion!) they feel more solid, or durable to me. There’s nothing at all wrong with the paint-on kind, it’s just my opinion!
On top of that, the spray-on topcoats dry to the touch within minutes and cure in a day – this means I can take a piece outside (you need lots of ventilation to use the spray-on stuff!), spray my piece, wait 5 minutes and be able to pick the piece up and bring it inside (after a day, the topcoat cures, or hardens as much as it’s going to!). You don’t want to bang them around at this point because they CAN still get nicked and dented, but they are safe to handle gently after a very short period. This makes it really easy for me to spray something and still be able to antique it that day, or varnish certain parts of the sculpture as I like doing with unicorns and flap cats 🙂
Hope this all helps! Here’s the flap cat I was talking about earlier, I tried to find some pictures that showed as best I can the difference in the fur topcoat and the wing topcoat:
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!Wow, Siri, that Kitty Griffin is gorgeous! Bravo 🙂
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!Ahhh, be still my beating heart!! He’s so beautiful 😀
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!thanks for sharing. I love looking at your work. It is inspiring they way you blend colors. 🙂
May I ask for a secret? Are most of your blends done by hand? They seem so. How to do you find the balance between patience and speed? Do you find necessary to thin colors or use any type of retarder at all?
Thank you so much! ^^
I do all of my blends by hand, yes 🙂
I almost always mix my own colors at the start of a paint, using just red/yellow/blue/black/white, and then I go from there. Blending is definitely a skill in patience XD I used to only paint a couple of layers on my pieces, and now I’m probably up to at least 3 or 4, sometimes as many as 5 or 6 depending on how fussy the paint is being! I don’t worry too much about speed, but I do make sure that each layer of paint is dry before blending more on top of it, or I will risk pulling up the layer of paint that I just completed, and that’s worse than anything!The first layer looks terrible but it shows me where the blending is going to be taking place. Every layer on top of that just refines the blending more and more until I am happy with it. The current piece I am working on (won’t be able to post pics of it as it is a repaint) required 5 coats of paint before the blending was “perfect” on it. It may seem like a lot of paint, but my layers are well worked and therefore pretty thin.
And yes, I do use retarder in everything I do! That stuff saves me all the time – it keeps my paints “fresh” at least twice as long as they would normally keep, so I just automatically add it to everything when I am at the mixing stages.
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!Thank you so much Kim! That really helped reading your experience with it. I read from one person who got over his fear that he did pretty much what you did – he intentionally did not avoid flying and tried to do it as much as time and his wallet would permit to get himself over his fear.
I may not be able to fly a ton, but I definitely want to be able to fly comfortably when I do. Even though it’s not for many months yet, I know I’ll come back and read this again before I fly, and I thank you for your words of encouragement! I’ve gotta do my best to get myself in that same “everything is going to be fine” mindset 😀
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!My condolences for you Mi 🙁 It’s always so hard to lose a pet, they truly are like members of the family and we feel the same grief when they pass as when a family member does. They give us all of their love and we can only hope that we give them enough in return. It sounds to me like you and Gandalf were perfect for each other, and I am sure he knew very well that you were holding him and telling him you loved him in his last moments.
*hugs* Please let me know if you need anything.Commission spots are currently closed! Please message me for details.
Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!Thanks very much everyone 😀 As always, it means a lot to me to hear your comments ^^
lasohaney – yeah they are a bit tough to get good detail on! I was explaining to my boyfriend that smaller pieces are not always easier to paint just because they are smaller!Commission spots are currently closed! Please message me for details.
Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!Wow he is beautiful Kila! Easily one of my favorites so far! Perfect coloring, and I love the dragons that look like tattoos on his sides 🙂
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