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i still owe you all pics..sorry
You’ve been feeling really sick lately though, right? I’m sure everyone understands if you need to take your time. 🙂
Ahhh I am so excited…!!!! Yesterday evening after I got home from work I ordered a bunch of the statues: two foo pups, two kirins (one of each style), a gryphon and the little dragon. Reason being, shipping costs me so much to get to Japan I needed to make the most of my money!! This morning I woke up to confirmation that my order is complete, and hopefully it’ll be shipping soon…!!
I also got an update from DickBlick on the art supplies and they’re supposed to be shipping out within the next 2-3 days, and hopefully reach me within 5-7 business days. I had to remove the Golden GAC to get it to ship out faster, but cleverly I deduced that I could send that and the Liquitex pearlescent to my home address in the States and have that sent out in a larger box with personal items so I can get all the stuff I need…. No interference paints, but I have a well rounded palette of colors for mixing plus a bunch of the jacquard metallics to try out.
I’m so antsy and really praying that everything makes it in time for my birthday/four day weekend that is coming up not this weekend but next. It might seem a bit far-fetched, but it’s possible, at least once they reach Japan’s side mail goes very quickly and things ship every day, no breaks for Saturday or Sunday. I would just love to spend basically four days doing nothing but painting (and possibly writing); I’ve been so stymied for something fun and relaxing and creative to do lately that I’m certain it would be great therapy.
The Windstone Facebook page calls this photo “Quest 15 prizes”, don’t know if they really are. 🙂
aaaahhhhh they’re so CUUUUTEEEEE
How did you prime the horn? And how many layers of lacquer on top of the painting? I’m really curious because I’d love to do something like this myself…
I did this before as well, I used one of the Deco Art silver pens on the horn and then sealed it about 3 times. Still looks great and it’s been several years now!
Well, shoot. I don’t have deco art pens or any access to them, sadly. I don’t suppose it could just simply be painted over with a silver acrylic and then lacquered multiple times?
What I do is if I really like a piece enough to bid on it, I’ll get an ultimate ceiling cost in my head of what I would want, or could afford to pay, and I’ll watch the piece. I’ll make a note what my ‘max’ bid would be – I normally also include the shipping cost as part of my ceiling cost consideration and know what I would need to enter as a ‘max’ bid + shipping to equal my ceiling cost.
I normally don’t bid until the very end of an auction, so I sometimes will snipe in the last seconds if the piece is still below my ‘max’ bid. But, if the piece has already been bid up past my predetermined ‘max’ bid, then I won’t bid at all.
This formula works for me to keep my anxiety level down and keep me from spending beyond my means. I figure if I don’t win, it wasn’t meant for me and perhaps something I like, or love more, will come in the future.
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I think I like this strategy. I was doing something similar with the “roof” bidding (figuring out the max I might want to spend) but when I was putting in my bids early (like, two+ days left to the auction) it would leave me feeling squeamish and anxious. Actually, I had a lot of trouble sleeping during those times. I just get anxious too easily. Also, a few of those times I kept reconsidering what my max bid should be–I kept thinking to myself, well, *technically* I could go higher without it being a problem… so *should* I? And although I didn’t regret it and could and did pay in those situations where I did opt to, *if* I hadn’t then I would have had more money to spend on other things later.
I’d much rather do something similar during the last couple hour stretch, maybe even could minutes if I could time it right. Like someone else (I think Kiya) mentioned it gives another person less time to think…
I have seen that “punishment” thing going on, or wondered if it wasn’t happening. I think it’s hard to know if that’s what’s happening, or if someone isn’t just trying to test to see how much further they have to go up. At least, that was what happened in my case once. Logically though it would make more sense to still use the max bid thing, but I always get to feeling leery, like what if ebay makes a mistake and instead of using the next increment necessary to be the top bidder, what if it puts in my max bid straight away? That would be… a really frustrating situation.
Wow, I think that’s coming along really nicely, personally. How do you like using the airbrush? Is it fun? Difficult? I’ve always wanted to be able to play around with / try using an airbrush since I was little and would see artists at theme parks using them, but it seems like it would be a very expensive tool for someone to invest in if they weren’t positive they’d continue to use it on a regular basis.
Painting over a white flap cat would be… sad to say the least. They were a limited production and hard to come by. We are talking the large Flap Cats right? You can find a siamese or black peacock tuxedo easy enough on ebay if a repaint is what you’re looking for. Especially a damaged one someone can fix, they go for short money these days.
Whups! When I originally made the suggestion, I didn’t realize it was a rare/limited production. Actually, I didn’t know if a white one had been made at all. I guess in this case, it would be less than ideal, and maybe better to wait for the short-haired PYO to come out. I mean, I could be wrong, but I’d think that black could be difficult to paint over without making the painting very thick and potentially losing detail, and it would be kind of crazy to suggest throwing away a lot of money for a rare piece if you’re going to change it.
Squeak. LP autumn leaf dragons. Love to see the fledge in this color scheme. More autumn leaf curlies….when there’s time and resources of course.
Yes Yes! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Autumn Leaf Curlies! Autumn Leaf Curlies! 😀
Squeak squeak! Autumn leaf everything.
How did you prime the horn? And how many layers of lacquer on top of the painting? I’m really curious because I’d love to do something like this myself…
Albino, Blue Morpho, the one Kiya showed–I’d love LP of any/all of the above in kirin. (Less the albinos, but I’ll take whatever I can get!!) I’d also love to see one in blue morpho colors with a pewter horn instead of the gold looking one! That would look fantsatic!! And also, a new “natural” colored kirin with more subtle browns/shading. Also kingfisher kirin. ;p basically all of the kirin.
(But take your time with whatever, totally understand you’re shortstaffed. Also my money is low and I’m planning on getting pyos and then cutting myself off for a while. XD so yes, take your time…)
I thought about buying the Golden varnishes, but I kind of wanted to space out the expenses and keep the box from becoming too heavy (keep the shipping costs down). I know that I can get liquitex varnishes in both a silk and glossy form here, so I will be looking into that a little closer to pay day. Windsor and Newton’s supplies can’t be shipped overseas apparently, so I went with the GAC. I’ll keep in mind the recc about them in the future though. If this ends up being something I enjoy a lot though, I’ll probably do a price comparison with the Windsor and Newton stuff when I move home as I doubt that I will be spending all of the money to take everything back with me. Glad to hear that the paint on varnishes are nice to use, though–I think it’s actually more difficult for me to find spray varnish here than the non-spray type.
Congratulations!! I am so excited for you, and I can’t wait to see the in-progress (and completed project!) photos. (Can’t wait to get to start doing this myself….)
I think even though the koi pattern is kind of common there is a reason for it. It just happens to look very nice, and I think that there’s a lot you can do with it. And since it is *your* statue, you can certainly go all out and do fantasy koirin patterns or whatever you’ve got in mind.
