[Jillian]

I’ve used them to paint directly onto a figure… However, I’ve heard they’re not lightfast & will degrade over time. :<
My alcohol inks used were copies, and I found out after the fact that they wouldn’t be archival quality.
[url]https://www.vanillaarts.com/blog/prevent-copic-fade#:~:text=Copic%20inks%20are%20not%20forever,true%20in%20the%20art%20world.[url]
I’m not sure if there are other alcohol inks of higher qualities/lightfast. Just my two cents.

Maybe there are others that have had actual experience using them and cam show how they’ve aged/not. X)

*edit to share fresh alcohol inks on a hip I was working on

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What I wouldn’t give for that brimstone family! The Gina outdid herself on those details. Simply beautiful 😍

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She is a STUNNER

I love how the look evolved through her time of TLC/recovery. I’m smitten! 😍

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Gosh, they’re beautiful! I hope I manage to catch the wait list. I haven’t been ’round for a fantasy critter gb. 🙂

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I think I’ve fallen in love with the Gothic unicorn- gorgeous!

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[Jillian]

For the record, these types of spots still take paint just fine!

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dragonmedley wrote:

I think this may leftover stuff from the mold. This came up quite a while back with some of the PYO dragons, when they were first made available. No clue what was done to fix it.

My suggestion: email Suzie about it so Windstone is officially aware that this is an issue, particularly with the orientals.

This – should- have been my first move, rather than coming up with short sighted theories. Suzie had never been asked before, and after some short investigating had an answer for me/anyone else that may have seen this with their pyo figures.

I think Suzie’s words explain things best!

“Hi Jill,

I asked Gina if she knew anything about this and she said that sometimes when they dunk the pieces in water (part our normal process for all pieces before they are set to dry out completely) there are little spots that are “hydrophobic” and if you rub them lightly with your fingers the water soaks in. I’ll bet that some of the people who get the dunking job know this – and some don’t. Those PYO Orientals were made some time ago and I think may have been handled by a completely different crew than we have right now. Should you try tea staining again, try rubbing the spots lightly and see what happens.”

^v^; I feel quite silly not having tried to rub or scrub the bright white away! I’m thankful to know what I was seeing now, too, as it’s obvious that everything else I own from Windstone is of high quality. QQ I have limited casting experience, and exactly zero stone casting experience. X)

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It’s got to be a problematic mold- the theory I’ve conjured is that this fella left his ruff behind in it and had to be reattached. Best guess I can come up with! I ended up changing my original idea & painted over it, too. Maybe the next restock will be different and I can shoot for the stained look again. 🙂

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Even more curious! Was it in the same region, or elsewhere?

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Has anyone noticed this anomaly on their pyo figures? I’m guessing this is some kind of patch where the cast had a flaw. It didn’t want to soak up any of the base/tea stain I was attempting to use. Does anyone know what the material is or noticed similar on other pyo figures?

Just curious!

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Bodine wrote:

Love the Hip and Snerl.Both very unique.

That’s super kind of you to say! The snerl definitely is speaking some kind of Atlantis theme to me- purely coincidental, but I like it! Might call it Lost Bahama. ^v^

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Thank you, Nightcrow. I’m still holding out hope that I can layer some acrylics to bring about that scene again… but we’ll see. :’) I had to set it down and let my attention be drawn to other things… like more pyo projects!

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As is tradition, I’m working on several pieces at the same time. The dragon here has a base of jacquard white pearl (mixed into an acrylic medium) and detailing added with alcohol ink. This experiment DID work in my favor, and with just a lil rubbing alcohol, the scales got some nice shading by fading the ink out from the scale base.

The blue kirin has had a lot more work done since this picture & I might be getting closer to finished with it. :>

The last kirin was based in matte black and then covered with interference gold. I really like how the green looks over it, and even better with a fade to blue. I can foresee giving it more attention in the near future.

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This photo set focuses mostly on the snerl that I’ve been working with alcohol inks. I’m not sure if the tea staining base made any difference since I’ve just been layering… and then layering some more.

Additional teal to purple color shifting pigments were added to some of the ruff and secondary feathers, as well as some green/gold that needed it’s BAMF toned way the heck down. I’m not sure I’ve found a good balance between detail and colors yet. :<

In the background is a pyo ori that I’ve modified quite a bit. It’s a project piece that I’m testing my new airbrush on. I also got some fun holo pigment for scale accents that looks pretty smashing next to the blue and teal shades, imo.

Phew! I think that sums up the past few weeks worth of progress. I sat on sharing any kind of update for too long. ^^;
Blank glass cabs are coming, so I may take a stab at making some custom eyes to finish off some of these pieces.

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What a cute new critter! I love learning about the folklore/religion/mythology of other cultures & this one got me down a rabbit hole. <3

Can’t wait to see it in production. 🙂

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I’m holding my breath… I’ve been slowly collecting Violet flame, and I missed out on the Rising Spectral restock. Seeing the ebay dragon scalpers holding several at a time, for a painful markup, has me bitter.
/sobstory
This raffle color variation would look great with my family, while I wait for the next restock of its Spectral sibling. I’ve got a male blue morpho that completes the gold/purple/blue spectrum nicely, too. Claws crossed!

A girl can dream!

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I’ve been playing around with alcohol ink on this hip’ & wanted to share a WIP. ^v^
Pinks/purples are ink
Blue/green is acrylic

I absolutely had a fun simplified mash of spots that spelled out an underwater scene on the back side of the neck. This was before I discovered the violet alcohol ink was [i]too powerful[/i] when I went to deepen some of the pinks on its edge and things bled [i]everywhere[/i]. Lesson learned, I sealed up the inks with some matte finish and moved on to acrylic paint after since adequate drying time.

I wanted to shoot for a fantasy pinto for the fore and a koi pattern for the aft. I’m definitely letting the muse guide me here & plan to go on with some washes & hitting the base before deciding if the hip’ itself needs more detail in the markings or not. ^^;

Background Phoenix is in limboland. He gets to hang out on the mantle so he can stare me down while I debate what I want to do to move forward with’m.

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