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laphon1 wrote:
Melody, have you ever considered having all your prints, drawings, paintings etc. published in book form? Or anything in a similar format?
Yes, we have. We think about things like that all the time, but just haven’t got a spare moment to work on a project like that. We can’t even keep up with the website’s needs!
We’ve talked about doing a Windstone collector’s book too, like all those other fancy companies have, with pictures of all the pieces, with dates of issue and retirement etc. but we never did that either. Probably never will. It would be cool though.
I was seriously thinking about doing a simple Cafe’ Press calender with Windstone dragon pix, just for the forum members. I can’t seem to get a clear answer from Cafe’ Press about what rights, if any they have to my copyrighted art if I publish it through them though.WolfenMachine wrote:I know this would fit better in the “Old Warriors” thread, but was afraid it would get lost in the 5 pages of replies.
Melody, do you have any plans on doing the Old Warrior(or any of the larger pieces outside of the family) in the new Hybrid color any time “soon” (3-4 months)?
What about the gold paint? I’m trying to budget 🙂
Yes, we plan to do most or all of the dragons in the new colors eventually, the only problem is the Secret Keeper in Hybrid em pea. We said in the auction that there would not be any more of those! However, I stated in the Ebay words for the prototype Old Wariors that any of these test colors might be a new production color, so we can do the regular warriors in Hybrid.
I plan to do a paint sample of the Emperor soon as I can get to it, we have one of the warrior, so all we need is time to paint them. I can’t tell you exactly when that will be! I don’t know. Windstone does’t operate with scheduals and time tables and calanders. We do stuff as we get to it.Greater Basilisk wrote:Dragon Master wrote:Greater Basilisk wrote:I still like Viridian best. Aurora isn’t a color or a stone, so it wouldn’t fit with any of the other color names.
Peacock, Brown, Black and Ggold, Gold and Green are not stones either
Brown and green are colors, and Black Gold is a color with a precious metal. So they fit the list. Sorry for not specifying. 🙂 Peacock is the only one not a color or precious material by definition, and even that is used as a color name.
I still think listings like “Windestone Edition Male Dragon in Neptune” or “Triton” would sound strange.Peacock is a mineral. I think it is a type of coal.That is what the peacock dragons are painted after, not the bird. http://imagesource.allposters.com/images/pic/NGSPOD01/100334~Close-View-of-a-Large-Chunk-of-Peacock-Coal-Posters.jpg
John, the husband thing, came up with Blugruple, Griffin, the brother thing, came up with Empphire.Dragon Master wrote:I just came up with Triton since he is supposed to be the King of the seas
Also known as Neptune.
wolflodge100 wrote:if I saw a dragon called sapphire I would expect it to be dark blue
Me too. But sapphires come in almost all colors.
dragon_egg wrote:What about the color name of Sapphire Jade? Sapphires come in pretty much every color (except red which is ruby).
I love the name Sapphire, but do these dragons look like Sapphire? Seems they need to be more blue. But then, the dragons we called Emerald aren’t really emerald colored.Good Emeralds are deep green. The Jade dragons weren’t jade colored either- so naming the colors incorrectly is part of our tradition!
ddvm wrote:I like the name tourmaline although after seeing the picture I now want a lifesaver.
yeah I thought of tourmaline, but it isn’t usually the deep colors that this dragon is. I’ve only seen it myself in kinda a pale green and pinkish purple.
vantid wrote:I say again, Aurora!
DM came up with “Fauna”,thinking of the earth and growing things, but that means animal life,I think. I like “Aurora”.
The name for the new dagon color,”Hybrid Emerald Peacock”, is too long. It doesn’t fit on lables, or the order sheets, or in the computer.
I’ve been asking around for ideas of names for the color, but we haven’t come up with anything really perfect for it. I would like a mineral, or something natural that is more descriptive of the green purple and blue colors…but short.
I came up with “Scarab”. Those are beautiful beetles that come in amazing metallic colors. Makes me think of dark cool colors,and symbols of ancient Egypt. I love scarab beetles, but do you just think- “yuck,bugs!!” when you hear that word?
We’ll probably end up with calling them “Hybrid”, but I don’t like that name very much..
Tourmaline? Aquamarine? Abalonie?Neptune? spodimite?
Maybe these should be called “Green Flash”. Sounds like a comic book character.I hadn’t though about that! Most likely, we won’t. We are trying to keep the variety of items we have to inventory under control! We are out of space to store them.
The Spectral eyes are the smallest size we can get, so I can’t make the heads of Spectrals any smaller than they are.
..and a slightly different topic: I was toying with the idea of re-doing the two spectrals with normal eyes.. that would mean re-sculpting the eyesockets a little.. any thoughts on that?CherylKaufman wrote:Ya, I have a Maya Hill piece that came without the votive but I would like it so I’ll inquire about the voltive too.
Any votive holder that fits will work. They are common items. Just go to a candle shop or craft place that carries stuff like that. Thrift shops are my favorite. Or, if all else fails, pester Karen for one.
email Karen, karen@windstoneeditions.com We must have more of those. Or just go to a thrift shop and find something similar to use. Did you use a candle that didn’t have a metal thing under the wick? That might cause the candle to burn down and not go out before it gets the glass too hot.
Be sure to have the candle lamp on a level surface too, so the flame doesn’t get too close to one side of the glass.Zelda wrote:Hello! I’d like to ask if you have plans for ever doing any more dinosaur sculptures, Melody. With all of the feathered, big-eyed birdcritters they’ve been finding lately, I can’t help but think what an adorable personality you’d give them in sculpted form. I’ve also gotta say that the little ‘grin’ on your hatching T. rex’s face is too cute! Thanks for producing your original lineup of them! It’s hard to find dinos to decorate my shelf that aren’t made in China and of cheap vacu-formed plastic 🙂
Oh they aren’t all cheap plastic, I’ve seen some that are just beautiful!
No, I’m not doing any more dinos.
(A sabertooth is a dino?)
I’ve done lots of sketches for a sabertooth sculpture.. never got around to it, as usual. I would like to sculpt one with its mouth shut for once.
I would love to sculpt the archyopteyx (however you spell it; that bird-like thing, I LOVE those!), but the whole dino line sort of fizzled. We didn’t really sell that many of the normal dinos, just the hatchers.
A hatching sabertooth? hmmm..
