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I’ll keep this in mind, thanks! With the winged wolf, I’ll probably go with grey, as his eyes are grey; but I’ve got my PYO Kitsune on the list to do once the wolf is finished, and for that one I’m going to use a rich chocolatey brown — I’m basing the kitsune’s pattern on my dog, and her undercoat is a dark-chocolate color in a lot of places! Under strong/bright sunlight, you can see quite a bit of brown in her coat, so I think it’d work well for shading the Kitsune.
Thanks, everybody who offered tips!
I personally wouldn’t shade with grey, but with a dark navy or some other hue. It depends what kind of a ‘Black’ look you’re going for though 🙂
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Welp. I had a sneaking suspicion that this was what I should have done… and it’s sounding more and more like that’s exactly what I should have done. As the wolf is already painted black, though, it’s a bit late and now I’m stuck trying to work around what’s already on him. *sigh*
I would go further than this, actually. I would paint the wolf a somewhat dark grey, then use a very thinned paint “wash” to add shadows to the recesses (as well as darken the piece overall) and then lightly drybrush a slightly lighter grey over top.
Agree with this.
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Agreed! I really love the black line that passes through the eye, dividing the bright blue from the bright white. I’d love to see markings like that incorporated into another (maybe more fantasy) color scheme! Overall, it just doesn’t quite work for me, but the face definitely does.
I think the Blue Jay coloring is quite striking on the Emperor. The black coloration on the snout going to white is very striking. He’s especially interesting when viewed from the front.
*looks* oooo!! very pretty!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
YAY!! for garden dragons and for PYO Orientals!
I, too, will be sitting out this GB batch, as I don’t collect either Unis or Poads, so it’s good to know there’s some other stuff in the pipeline, too. 🙂
(Though if you wanted to do another batch of GB Sitting Red Foxes, down the road, I’d be there in a heartbeat! I don’t generally go for the non-fantasy sculpts, but this one has charmed me.)
Yeah, sadly I’ve about 90% given up on hoping I can afford GB’s anymore.. so I’ll be sitting back and watching these until a pebble batch, but even those are climbing in price, so I minorly hope I can afford them, but not holding my breath…
I’m looking forward to the Hippocampus, and eager to see what production pieces come out…
Speaking of production, anything interesting going on in that direction?The indoor garden dragon is coming along, I am working on horns for various things, and doing the final finish details on the Oriental PYO.
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
I’d love to see an Autumn Wizard Mouse in the same line as the Autumn Wizard Cat, myself! I just pulled my little White Wizmouse out of storage the other day, and seeing his adorable face has made me fall in love with him all over again… and think about finding him some company! 🙂 Though Blue Morpho would be gorgeous, too, I’m sure!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
All right, I’m finally updating my squeak post, after searching to find it! 😀 (10/21/2015)
Soonish/More Likely Squeaks:
+ Lap Dragons in Lavender Pearl & Pale Mint!
+ Moon Orientals in Peacock!
+ Griffins in seal or blue point Siamese! (without white)
+ Griffins in Kingfisher!
+ Mouse Wizards in new colors – especially black & tan, chocolate & tan, blue & tan, recessive yellow, or brindle! (Robe colors up to you!)
+ Production Ki-Rins in Silver Koi, Collie, and/or Pearl Siamese!
+ Production dragons in Mineral Spring, Blue Ice, Ocean Blue, Glacier, Lavender Blue, Pink Copper Pearl!
+ Grab Bag Sitting Foxes in fantasy-safari or metallic-but-mostly-natural-safari patterns!Someday/Long-Term Squeaks:
+ New colors: I’d love to see a new brown/earth-tone scheme developed as the next production color!
+ New dragon sculpts: Sentinel & Garden Dragon would be extra-awesome – cute as the babies are, I love larger sculpts! (And chances to get them in White, please!)
+ New mice: Mouse gargoyles, please? And have you ever thought of doing a Mouse Witch to go with the Wizard??
+ New PYO sculpts: Oriental Dragon (an “unfancy” version without ridged scales), another Kitty Griffin, a winged mouse, a Shorthair Flapcat, a Pebble African Wild Dog… maybe a Pebble Owl?!Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Ooooooh, Rylorien, what a great “find”! I was just headed into this thread to add “Collie” Kirins to my squeak list, and now I’m going to add Pearl Siamese to it, too!
I was browsing some old test paints and found this beauty.
I know it’s not an extravagent way out there color scheme, but I love the rich chocolate points on the lighter toasted almond color. I would be so happy to see a kirin family in this.
I also looked at all the past grab bags…there’s LOT of pebbles, unicorns, and a few poads. And one mini-keeper (and one curled). Need more dragons! So I squeak for a second batch of mini-keepers in the coming year (I’m sure there’s a lot of stuff already slated for the rest of the year, so I aim for the future).
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
[ Old wishlist was here! I didn’t realize I had already posted one, so I made another post; deleting this one to avoid confusing people and breaking the “one post per member” rule. ]
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
EDIT: Whoops; my mistake, not yours! Guess I didn’t read the description, I must’ve just glanced at the picture; the Permanently Retired Lap Dragon is the Amethyst, while the Lap in the Store with a “Notify Me” button is the Violet Flame!
Never mind. 😀
That would be me not getting everything done. Sorry!
Not a problem! I just hadn’t even realized they were permanently out of stock, because it never occurred to me to browse through that section till yesterday (I wasn’t looking for the Amethyst Laps, either; I was just trying to see if Copper Patina Lap Dragons had ever gone into production and then been retired!) and was quite surprised to see them there. 🙂
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
The apostrophe one is a good one! (I feel like maybe it should have an “except for its/it’s; see below” mention on the initial ‘possessive’ explanation, but ehh.)
The thing that really…gets to me…is the kind of person who…seems to think…that ellipses are…interchangeable with spaces…and commas and semicolons…and end punctuation…
*makes a face* They’re thankfully not as common as the lets’ throw apostrophe’s into this sentence’s at random people, but they’re even more annoying when you do find one, because it’s impossible not to hear all of their text in the weird, dragging way that their punctuation implies!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
What a great post! I wish I could print it out and hand it to some people I’ve met…
I work at a nonprofit cat and dog rescue organization, so we get our fair share of idiots bragging to us about their (or their brother’s, or their cousin’s, or their stepgrandson-once-removed’s girlfriend’s…) “wolf hybrid” pet. D:< Not long ago we had someone approach us to try to get us to take one in that needed rescue. (No idea if it really was a wolfdog or not; she didn't show us pictures, and since the dog didn't fit our criteria anyway, we sent her away with a list of rescue groups and a gentle, "we're really not equipped to handle that kind of animal, sorry.")
Considering that I live in a city, and one whose animal shelter receives 12,000-15,000 animals per year, a wolfdog is the last thing anybody here needs! (Good grief; we reached temps over 100F this summer; you don't even need a Husky or Malamute, guys!) I keep meaning to look up the specific licensing/permit requirements for such animals here, but there's nothing about them by name in the city's municipal code, so it must either be something bigger (county or state level) or else there are no particular restrictions.
I feel much the same about hybrid cat breeds, too. Even the F4 offspring, who are perfectly tame, still, for me, come down to "you paid for an animal whose existence relied on somebody taking a wild cat from the wild and breeding it for profit… in a country where over a million cats die in shelters every year… because you wanted a cat that was big and pretty." There are natural, 100% domestic cat breeds that capture the look of a wild cat without having to incorporate wild genes; do a little research and pick one of those! A California Spangled Cat, Egyptian Mau, Pixiebob, Ocicat, Bombay, or Toyger will give you the pleasure of a "wild cat look" – as will many a shelter cat (the rescue I've worked for has had a number of exotic-looking felines of no particular pedigree, including one who could have passed for a Ocicat with vivid green eyes, a gorgeous laterally-marbled tabby with Bengal-style rosette coloring, and a number of Bombay-lookalikes!) without the need for hybridization with wild species. Please don't give your money to breeders of Bengals, Savannahs, Cheetohs, or Serengetis!
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Some of y’all have me totally whipped! Farthest I remember driving is about 130 miles one way, but I decided to make a day of it and spend several hours at the beautiful Gulf coast beach so it was worth it- plus it was $100 for 6(?, a few years back) dragons. I’m in Florida also.
I’ve done at least 2 others around 100 miles one way (more beach days!), an 80 one way, and a couple 60 one ways that I remember. If I’m travelling out of my area, I try to check Craigslist for the areas I’m going to and driving through just in case.Aren’t you the person that sent me a bunch of starter plants/trees. If so you should see them now. The Orchid Tree is about 10 ft. (or more) and other tree is rally big and wide and that one multiplies like a weed and I have given a lot of my neighbors starts off of it. Again thanks
Yes I did and I’m glad to hear they’re doing so well! I think it’s your great care of them.
Want a plumeria start or angel trumpet? lolHmcarr, is Notions and Potions still open in St Augustine, and do they still sell Windstones and Enchantica? For a time they had a shop near me in Seminole County, and carried them.
No! They closed recently. I was so sad 🙁 I’d really love to open some type of fantasy themed store there now that there isn’t one and mine would DEFINITELY have Windstone!
I’d LOVE to do that too. It’s just sad stores like that can’t make it anymore. You’d have to combine several things to barely make it by these days, like maybe combine fantasy items with boutique items. That idea sounds atrocious to me though.
This has always been my secret dream, too… at least the “carrying Windstone” part. I always imagined my future shop to be a bookstore, though — one with a strong SF/F focus, and perhaps a half-dozen lines of related collectibles, on the higher end of the quality scale.
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Thank you, Melody! That’s very helpful to know! (And wow, you guys were super-productive casting the foxies; I hadn’t realized till seeing another thread a couple of days ago that there were over a hundred GBs PLUS the AWDs… That’s a lot of foxes!)
I may try my luck again on the Grab Bag side, if a (non-fox) secondhand purchase I’m negotiating doesn’t pan out!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Melody, you’ve done quite a few critters in the AWD scheme now… have you considered sculpting an actual African Wild Dog for your next Pebble animal??
I’ve loved them for years, and you seem to really enjoy their colors, so… just an idea!
Maybe not next, but I certainly want to!
Wow! That is awesome to hear! /
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Great job so far! You wouldn’t know the poor thing had the horn sheered off! Yeah Windstone sent me a couple of the gold paint pens as they don’t sell them at my local Michael’s now and I couldn’t find them anywhere. They had just enough gold left in them to touch up a few pieces. I should warn you though, I tried using one directly on the edge of a dragon wing once and pressed it a bit too hard and the gold paint leaked all over the wing. I couldn’t get it off so I had to repaint the wing and then ended up sending it with some other pieces to get repaired by someone who had the same emerald paint. So since then I have just dabbed some of the gold paint pen on a paintbrush and used the paintbrush to touch up spots on my pieces. A warning though that the gold paint does not like to come off clothes, pallets or paint brushes very easily so be careful with it!
Thanks for the tip! That’s a good idea to use a paintbrush.
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
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