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Owch, 130? I want one really bad but I’m not sure if I can justify that kind of cost… /sigh Guess we’ll see what happens.
Can we have a grabbag made up solely of poison dart frog baby poads? Because I really really want one. (Although knowing my luck, they’d be all sold out before I had a chance…)
EDIT: just now saw that the batch is going to be coming out sometime this month :)) Suddenly I feel less sad for missing all the foxes. Poison dart frogs are seriously one of my favorite animals of all time, so I’m really excited about this.
Has it been decided roughly how much the gb babies will cost? I know that the tadpoads are 40.
Ferret or cinnamon or silver or red panda–or ALL–just more colors!! I want it to be worth the shipping when I order a family of foxes. :DD
Man oh man this skelebration idea sounds really awesome and I am totally excited about it. ALSO super excited about the possibility of more ring of fire curlies; squeak squeak squeak!!!
I also want to squeak for some kind of silver/grey with dark faced production pebble fox, and a black (non-sparkly) production fox… if possible….
I have no real advice, having never sold anything on Ebay, but I thought I would chime in just to show some solidarity and say that this really does suck. 🙁 I hope that you manage to get this resolved in your favor (and I think I’d try following Hannah’s suggestions; they seem pretty sound).
@dragonmedley
Huh. Okay, I don’t think I’ve watched yours yet; I don’t remember a wolf. More things to watch when I get home from work today. 😀 Yay!Aye-yay-yay, I should have known I suppose that it would take multiple layers to make it even; I feel reeaaally silly now. I wonder then if I’d left things alone the last time if it wouldn’t have been okay… well, live and learn (and waste a little paint, I guess).
@Lokie
Yes, those are exactly the kind of pots I need/want to find that I saw in your video. Hopefully I can find something like that here in Japan. You’d think it wouldn’t be so hard, but I don’t think I saw anything like that at the stationery shops in town that sell what little art supply there is, and the actual “crafts” shops should really be called sewing/fabric crafts. I’d really rather not have to order them from overseas (shipping time and fees, bleh), so I guess I’ll go see what I can find on Backsgazai or at the “dollar” store. 8|;I do remember the paint swatch thing and I think I may regret not taking that advice soonish as I didn’t really record which colors I mixed last night. “I’ll remember!” <- Famous last words. Hopefully it won't be very hard, I didn't use that many.
And yes, I'm trying to use the fluid acrylics, even though I've really only used gesso before. Possibly not the best decision, but I wanted to try something new. Maybe I will try not using the retarder then and see how it goes with just the regular GAC medium (and maybe a tiny bit of water). I hope I wasn't applying stuff too thick, although I guess if I was, I was. xD Thank you so much for your help.
Oh my god this is GORGEOUS. If I wasn’t sitting down already I’d swoon, I swear.
I… really really need to find a way to get myself some of these auto paints to me in Japan. I want the colorshifts and the sparkling black SO BAD. Aerosol won’t go over seas though. ;_;
Ooh, I for one would love to see a repair video sometime if it ever aligns with your actual projects and it isn’t too difficult to get someone to record it for you.
@Dragonmedley
Okay. Maybe this is where I’m going wrong. Because of how fast the paint dries, I’ve been trying to do wet blending with my very first coat layers, and I’m noticing it’s resulting in… kind of a messy, marbled, and uneven effect? If that makes any sense. It was a little easier with my retry last night breaking the PYO into sections instead of trying to get the paint on all at once at least.@Prezaurian
Oh man these links look like awesome resources, and I’ve only gone through perhaps one article so far…. I’m bookmarking it for later so I can go mining for info. *-* Thank you. (One thing I think is different-windstones don’t need primer/”base coat” in order to make the paint stick, correct? They seem pretty porous anyway.)EDIT; I just wanted to add that the reaper article is INCREDIBLY helpful in figuring out how thin/thick/what consistency to be looking for in paints and explaining *thinning* agent as opposed to pure plain extender. If I’m understanding right, my paints are probably too thick and I haven’t been using properly thinned paint, which would explain my problems. Makes so much more sense now… thank you again for sharing this!!
@Drag0nfeathers
How strange. Maybe it was your video I saw then and not dragonmedley’s, because the video I watched last night matches your description of your video word for word. (Unless you both did the same?) I found it pretty helpful, although I’m not sure why my paints are so much more… transparent, I guess, when I’m applying the first layer. I’m guessing that it must be because of the brand/kind. Anyway, I really enjoyed that video, especially watching the rock get worked on from black to grey with the dry brushing.I think I’m just such a stinking ‘fraidy cat when it comes to layers; I’m so afraid I’m going to apply to thickly and lose details, but it’s sounding like more and more I just need to stop being such a fraidy cat and just TRY. xD Also, it’s cool to hear that I can probably use a mix of water and medium to thin my paints as needed. I will probably try that, even if it makes them just a teensy bit less archival. I mean, I have to use water to wash the paint brushes out anyway. It probably can’t hurt that much, right?@moonbeam & @Lokie
Maybe I’m too much of a wuss/want someone to hold my hand every step of the way, or I’m just a better visual learner, because I found windstone’s PDF tutorial to be kind of difficult to use personally. There are definitely some good tips in there so I do agree with reading it, but I still had questions and felt kind of uncertain even after reading it a couple times. …But since I’m still uncertain even after watching videos, maybe it’s less the tutorials and more a problem with me |DAnd yes, I noticed last night when I was trying to use the gloves ( I felt inspired to try painting again… stayed up waaaay past my bed time trying lol) that the wet paint would rub off on the gloves if I wasn’t careful, and it was harder to know if I was gripping the pyo in a “safe” zone because of the loss of sensation due to the latex. Definitely some give and take there. Good to know that there are some drawbacks about the glasses. It’s such a shame that the videos were limited to five minutes only, because I really felt like you guys all had some excellent teaching points that probably weren’t even *touched* and I would love to hear more. (No, seriously, I LOVE learning and receiving instruction almost as much as doing.)
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I kind of mentioned this above when talking with Dragonmedley, but I’m noticing that when I lay down paint (I’m using the Golden Fluid paints for the first time) they tend to kind of cover unevenly sometimes or are very glaze-y. Which I guess matches everything people told me before, but I’m wondering, when you’re using these, do you just using multiple layers that have dried on top of each other (or a basecoat) in order to get the color to be consistent and *then* start doing layer(s) of wet blending? I’m finding that even though I feel like I’ve technically learned a lot from my first attempt, I’m still getting washes that aren’t coming along evenly, and I’m just trying to figure out where I’m going wrong. (It would be fine if there was unevenness/darkness in crevices or wherever, but I’m getting a kind of uneven/marbled look on entirely flat surfaces.)Another thing. Holy toledo, how are you guys keeping your paints wet on your palette in time to use them again on the PYO without them becoming dry at all on the palette? Would adding more medium help? Using multiple palettes and covering some up with plastic when not in use? I saw in one person’s post they were using mini plastic jars to keep their paints fresh and was like “THAT IS GENIUS.” I wonder if I can find anything like that at the local 100 yen shop…. Anyway, I feel like I must be missing something, but I haven’t heard of anyone here using a wet palette for painting. I actually have a palette wetting spray but last night it clogged up so I have to look into how to clean out the tube without letting all the contents in the bottle harden up or whatever. @_@
PS: @meowmix101
I just realized I have pretty much hijacked your thread. u.u I’m really sorry. Hopefully you don’t mind my asking some more questions; I promise to pipe down soon.@Ela_Hara
Thank you for sharing these videos. I’m not sure if I’ve ever been so glad to be wrong! It’s really great to see how other people do the work, and it makes me realize I probably wasn’t doing some things right (and explains why I wasn’t getting the results I wanted.)@Dragonmedley
I just finished watching your video on blending, and I wish I’d seen it before I tried painting the first time. I feel fairly certain it would have helped me to make the wash more graduated. Out of curiosity, when you’re painting a slightly more complex statue, say with two different color areas, do you paint one color area gradient first and then the next?General…
Some of these tips and tricks I honestly never would have thought of but seem so very helpful–like the lighted reading glasses! So clever. I really wish I’d gone ahead and tried painting with a glove the first time around. I’d had the idea but kind of dismissed it and now I wonder if I’ve managed to get the statue greasy as well.I know that some people use alcohol or acetone and a q-tip. I’m not sure what the stuff I used is/was made of; it’s Liquitex’s proprietary remover. I managed to get a little statue clean by soaking it in the stuff and then using a stiff brush to scrub the paint off. The statue is a little bit stained, but then, I wasn’t counting on getting the color 100% off and I’m still planning to use the same general color scheme just hopefully with more even blending, so I think it will be fine.
