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Greater Basilisk wrote:
Maybe we should start a poll. But Melody tends to go with something of her own making when we do that anyway…
Do I do that? Sorry! But this does help!
skigod377 wrote:Any items going up for the weekend?
No, I think so…Karen left for the day, and I don’t think anything else got put up today. Monday we’ll get up the Em. Pea Curls, Gold Emperors, and mebbe some other stuff.
sunhawk wrote:I’m sorry, Bee Keeper keeps sticking in my mind as well lol I mean, he COULD be holding a bee in his paw, right??
I love “bee keeper” but that makes, like , no sense at all.
It doesn’t have to have “Keeper” in its name.But he is holding something mysterious and of your choosing, since the paw will be empty for you to stick something into.
ddvm wrote:I like Dream Keeper but would that be a problem with Disney? In Epcot (the Imagination building with Figment the purple dragon) there was a guy whose name was Dream Keeper.
Yeah, that is another thought, don’t want to step on Disney’s very rich sensitive toes.
WindstoneCollector wrote:I just saw the BIN on the PYO Griffins…You aren’t really gonna stop making them already are you? Please don’t!!! I still have alot of ideas for them, and I want one of all but brown eye color!! I just can’t afford them now.
What?? No! We aren’t.
Oh, because it says “final” mold? I meant that I wasn’t planning to fix it anymore. The sculpture is now in it’s final form.lamortefille wrote:vantid wrote:Melody called it that. :3
And there you have it! Miss Melody’s Cowpie Dragons. *pokes her to get her to list some*
Did not! The casters at Windstone named them that. All the cowsplat shaped ones are cowpies.Coiled dragon , Mother coiled dragon Innerlight dragon and now the curl dragon. I’ve never heard the “Cat’s Cradle” sculpture reffered to that way, though.Akeyla wrote:Heart keeper?
wish keeper
talisman keeper
keeper of happiness
hope keeper
magical keeper
soul keeper (okay, that sounds like harry potter)to be quite very honest, the keepers a bit bothering. I understand the need of keeping keeper, I would myself, but the old name went smoothly and most of the new ones have a nice first word and then comes the keeper like a .. wagon rolled over a badly kept road. No offense, just noted when reading the new namesOh, I know. It is always like this when thinking up a name . You nmever want to hear it again after awhile. This is the normal process.
Ok , the time has come to name the larger of the two Paint your own dragons…and again, I have no good name for him, so I need suggestions. He is pictured in my gallery as “large pyo dragon”, but I don’t want to call him that, because, what if I do a larger one?
He is a “Keeper” type dragon. He is holding something in his paw. I would like a name that means something like “Resolution Keeper”, or “Goal Keeper”, or something about what he is keeping. (Not “bee keeper”, but thanks anyway, Griffin)
Any thoughts?skigod377 wrote:So, now can you tell us who the winner is? Anyone we know?
It isn’t a dark secret or anything.. The winner was a person in Japan! I don’t htink she is a forum member. ( it is hard to tell with all the differnt names on here.)
SPark wrote:Karen is hooking me up with red-eyed ki-rins. She is awesome! (So is Susan, who is the other person there I’ve e-mailed lots.) I asked who I needed to bribe, and Karen said to bribe her. Which I know is a joke, but I wanted to send her a tiny little “bribe” anyhow.
But I need to know what Karen’s favorite color is. Anybody know?I don’t know . Is “Cat” a color? Her entire desk space is covered in cat pics.Her other favorite color is “Carmel corn”
ddvm wrote:Have you thought of doing a PYO guinea pig? Thanks
Yes I have. Can you imagine what Watergazer or dragOnfeathers would do with it?
Zelda wrote:Hi Melody! I have a question about your casting process: how do you create such wonderfully bubble-free casts? I work in my school’s fossil preparation lab where we mold and cast all sorts of things in all sorts of materials. We often use plaster and gypsum stone, but have a lot of trouble with keeping bubbles from appearing on the surface of our casts, and occupying the ‘tips’ of our casts. The common method for reducing the bubbles is tapping the molds once they’re poured, but this never gets rid of the problem. Do you guys have some sort of vaccuming process which eliminates air from the slurry before or after it’s poured?
Sorry for the long question, thanks a lot! Sorry this took so long to answer, part of my New Year’s resoultion is to spend less time onlne,and more time drawing. Silly, really.
I can’t answer specific questions about our casting process because we kinda worked it out over many years and it is sort-of our secret. However I will say that we don’t have a magic method and we get lots of bubbles too! (A long paintbrush can be used get out the deep bubbles) Sometimes it has to do with the batch of plaster, or the weather… or the person doing the casting! Just the hand that pours it seems to make a difference in the amount of bubbles. It is totally Voodoo.
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