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ruffian wrote:
in the works?
I’ve got the the Keeper dragon, the Unicorn and the Muse coming up. All the other designs are still in my head.
Silverdragon wrote:Question, are you going to one day do silver on some of the dragons to be available in stores? I really liked the silver Old Warrior. *stares at sig* And i was wondering if that was only a limited color or…it could possibly be in stores one day. 🙂
I’ve been putting off doing silver dragons because I want them to have better eyes.I want to wait till we come up with a nice purple eye color.
Art Slinger wrote:Melody wrote:Art Slinger wrote:Hello again, I’m wondering why the, ” Retailer’s group is closed, with only like two members, it looks like. Someone in our gallery once said to me,
“Well your just a retailer.” I was so aghast, that I just stood there with my eyes hanging out.
I own a store, but I was born an artist,
so were all not just store keepers. What’s the deal? 🙄I don’t know.. but I remember that we had talked in the office about how off-putting it sounded to have a retailer section.. like, so what do they talk about that other people can’t see? Seemed creepy to me, so I was one voice that was for getting rid of it. Nobody really used it anyway, because nobody is just a retailer! As SPark said above, we are still feeling around for what works in the way of a good forum, and what we should get rid of.This is a new deal for us! Any suggestions?
Thank you, I probably overstated my dismay, /
( stress). No I didn’t want a secret society, or closed group really, it just struck me strange that it was closed and seemed to have only two members.
What I really want is a better feel for who the Windstone collectors are, what they want and how to attract them. I know that the product deserves a better showing in the market place and I want to be part of making that happen;…. besides, I get paid for my efforts.Ask ’em!Art Slinger wrote:Hello again, I’m wondering why the, ” Retailer’s group is closed, with only like two members, it looks like. Someone in our gallery once said to me,
“Well your just a retailer.” I was so aghast, that I just stood there with my eyes hanging out.
I own a store, but I was born an artist,
so were all not just store keepers. What’s the deal? 🙄I don’t know.. but I remember that we had talked in the office about how off-putting it sounded to have a retailer section.. like, so what do they talk about that other people can’t see? Seemed creepy to me, so I was one voice that was for getting rid of it. Nobody really used it anyway, because nobody is just a retailer! As SPark said above, we are still feeling around for what works in the way of a good forum, and what we should get rid of.This is a new deal for us! Any suggestions?
drag0nfeathers wrote:Hiya Mel, Are there any plans to do the New Gold color or the Emerald Peacock color in any of the other dragons. Like the Rainbow only came out in the Male, Mother, Hatching, & Young. I’ve been patiently waiting for a Gold/Em Pea/Rainbow Scratcher or Lap Dragon. Also there are the ones that are now gone entirely, like the Coiled, both the Spectrals, and the Hatching Empress. Oh! and Black and Gold Spectrals would be SO COOL! Though I’ve already whined in the past about that one =)
I need to sit down and figure out which dragon designs are getting ignored in the new colors. We should do different dragons in new different colors, so none are getting forgotten!I haven’t gotten to it yet. When I get back home.
Pam Thompson wrote:I mean for blue eyes only. Like the peacocks. If in the browns, the lighter blue eyes are rarer than the darker blues, is the same true for peacocks? All my peacocks have the lighter version blue, like with that brown male pictured, and I’ve never seen a peacock any other way.
The peacocks all had light blue eyes.
Pam Thompson wrote:What about non-brown dragons? What colors are their eyes supposed to be? By peacock male and OW both have the light blue eyes.
Peacocks have the light blue eyes, I think…
The old greens have orange eyes( except for a few that accidentally got blue eyes, I am waiting to see one of those on Ebay!)
Whites have straw eyes,
Rainbows have those creepy deep blue eyes,
Rubys have ruby eyes,
Peacock black and hybrid dragons have blue eyes,
Black Golds have blue eyes,
Golds have ruby eyes…
Emeralds have ruby or orange eyes,
and Jades have red eyes.whippetluv wrote:So my favorite dragon *don’t tell that white secret keeper* is the scratcher. I love everything about him…but my favorite is his long spiraled horns. It is the only one of two *right?* with metal horns…and I love them. May I ask why you didn’t do more dragons with seperate long horns vs the short snubby molded horns? Are there thoughts in the future of more long horned dragons?
I kinda think of him as a different species. Like the Family set is one kind… and the Emperor set is another…and the scratcher is waiting for more family members besides the lap.
Or am I thinking too hard about this?There are three with gold horns, Scratcher, Lap, and Warrior. I like them with real horns too, but is an extra thing to glue in and cast.. so we have only done it on the three.I don’t have too many more dragons in the works , but I’ll consider putting the horns on them. I consider the horned dragons as a seperate family too.
nina789 wrote:Hi Melody I Know that you did some gold leaf dragons awhile back.. I was wondering have you ever thought about doing white gold, Silver or copper leafing?
I know it would be tricky to do but I would love to see what the outcome would look like. Specailly the White gold or the copper.
🙂 I have been thinking about everything… the unique thing about real gold leaf though, is that it is a color that is impossible to replicate exactly with paint. Other colors, such as copper and silver, have pretty exact matches that can be painted on, so I wouldn’t bother with leafing them. Leafing is a very difficult, time consuming pain in da butt.
Keplilly wrote:On the white secret keeper auction it is mentioned how they will eventually be put into prodcution so I wanted to ask how that is coming along? Are you still having problems doing a hollow core?
Another question, it mentions that there are only a few of the white SKs that will be going on ebay I was wondering how many that might be?
I was thinking of auctioning three. This color isn’t a limited edition however, so we have the option of making more, and maybe making them in limited production at a set price in the future. That would be the hollow core version though. We can’t cast many of these solid ones. We have only about ten castings now that I can paint.
We haven’t been successful with the hollow core methods we have tried so far, but we haven’t tried my method yet. If that doesn’t work, then the likelihood of production Secret Keepers looks dim.laphon1 wrote:I got curious, too. You said that you used Chessie and Griffin for your Cherubs. Did you ever use John for any of the Wizards? Something about my small Wizard and Wind Wizard remind me of John. (At least as he appears in the photo taken at the Windstone Holiday party and posted in the “What We Look Like” thread).
Yep!He’s my resident wizard model.I sometimes even made him pose.
Dragon Master wrote:Hi I was just wondering if you have ever considered mkaing the russet color that we all LOVE so much a regular color line?? I think the enire dragon live woudl be breath taking in this color scheme. How difficult are they to paint??
They are easy enough to paint, it is just that they are very similar in color to the ruby and flame colors..and not as vibrant as either. I painted these curl dragons like this because everyone liked the one I posted a pic of in my gallery.He happened to be not-quite ruby or flame, so he got called by a different name
SilverArrow wrote:Once again, another story/tidbit question for you. With all the talk about possible retirement of some of the unicorns I was curious as to what your inspiration was for the Grand Unicorn? He’s a departure from the rest of family and quite impressive. Also, now knowing the problem with the casting medium and appendages did you have difficulty finding a pose that would work?
I forgot to answer this one , sorry! Hey if I miss something, just ask again! The grand unicorn is an attempt to do a unicorn in the Heraldic “Rampant” pose. I wanted to have a front foot out, cast in pewter, but that was overly ambitious. He originally had a crown around his neck, but John said it looked stupid , so I took it off. Yes, this pose was really pushing what we could do with mold making! If it had been cast in a two part mold, it would of been easier, but it is cast with a one part mold! I am always trying to escape the “blob” shape usually required for our stuff to cast well.
Phoenix wrote:to retire a color?
I was really sad when I found out the emerald color would be retired as that is the color I collect. So I was wondering how you make the decision to retire a certain color? I know it adds value to the pieces I have, but will be sad when you eventually come out with new poses for the dragons and there won’t be one in emerald. 🙁We retire a color when we feel like it. We usually feel like it if a few things happen:
A. Sales really slow down for a color,
B. We didn’t like it much in the first place, because it is a pain to paint, or
c. We liked it, but have gotten REALLY tired of it!siberakh1 wrote:drag0nfeathers wrote:See, I had this funny idea that will probably not happen, but I was going to set up my black male griffin with the white mom (hopefully the auction lasts more then 1 minute and I get one, LOL) To make kind of an odd couple family since I missed out on the White Males.
I had the same idea! I just hope my income tax comes in before hand 😯 I should be getting it soon. There will be more Pearl males too, not that I am trying to shove your black males aside…
