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Not too bad, though they do slide just a little if you can’t run the control wires down your sleeves.
Crazy thing is each Drabit can cost around the price of a Windstone. And we have a family of 4 adult Drabits, a baby Drabit and a newborn Drabit. We only paid for 3 of the adults. The other three were won off raffle tickets at the end of the day at the Ren Faire.
When I first saw the post for this I thought you meant something like these that Albert Alfaro Jr. of Imaginarium Galleries made:
The baby Drabit on my husband’s shoulder is named Storm Chaser and the Winged Unicorn Drabit on my shoulder is named Sky Dancer.
A closer look at Sky Dancer. You can see my elf ears I wear to the ren faire!They are animated puppets known as Drabits. My husband and I also have other Drabits that we haven’t taken pictures of that are larger than the two shown.
CherylKaufman wrote:What is her website again? I think I may have missed it.
For Nene Thomas it’s http://www.nenethomas.com/
And in case anyone might be interested in Ruth Thompson (she does lots of dragons!) it’s http://www.tarnishedimages.com/
Akeyla wrote:And if you think flatart has a safer travel: I sent a painting to Australia in a really thick and safe cardboard envelope. With “no bend no tear” all in red over it. It was all fine until some friggin postman decided it was cool to fold the thing to get it to fit in the customers mailbox. Sometimes I wonder if barbed wire and landmines would be the answer to all prayers of a desperate shipping artist…
I had something like that happen to me when I ordered a double-matted print from an artist. I contacted her about it and she sent me a replacement (an artist’s proof even) and didn’t ask for the other back. She used a different shipping method the second time and it arrived fine. Now she only offers to ship that way.
CherylKaufman wrote:emerald212 wrote:Here’s my picture.
Mine is bigger than that and framed in green.
They were at a Ren fest- I got two of hers!!! Her work is SO AWESOME!!
Yeah she hits a lot of ren faires out in the Midwest since she’s located in Oklahoma. She also travels to a few conventions throughout the year. That’s how I met her briefly at Dragon*Con back in 1996. She and Ruth Thompson are my two favorite fantasy artists.
dragonessjade wrote:That is cool. I also liked a couple of the dragon ornaments.
The dragon ornaments are new and she doesn’t even have them listed on her Web site.
Greater Basilisk wrote:E-BayI just looked her up on E-Bay and she’s got about four times as many pages as Windstone. Wow.
Well aside from some of her paintings which have limited print runs only a few of her ornaments/figurines are limited in numbers and those aren’t even listed on her Web site any more. (Note they are made of resin and hand painted with acrylics.) You can also find the ornaments and figuines on many other Web sites and if you are lucky enough you can even find them in some stores.
emerald212 wrote:It wasn’t on that Web site, although Faerie of Ravens is another print I have and that was there. This one with the little dragons is a few years old and one of a set of four featuring the seasons. I think this one is summer or spring.
Sounds like “Summer: Elegance” That’s one of her older works when she mainly worked by hand. Now she does almost everything on the computer.
Greater Basilisk wrote:She does gorgeous artwork! I love the pegasi, but of course those are sold out for the next months. 🙁
You can sometimes find them on ebay. I’m missing the hunter brown ornament and that’s the one I have a print of!
I got to meet her at DragonCon about 10 years ago and bought two prints right away (CH:Hunter Brown and Fairy Ring). I’ve since added Fire Dance, her book and both her calendars (2006 & 2007) to my collection. If I could afford more of her artwork (and the framing of it later) I would have so many more.
emerald212 wrote:I have them sitting in front of a Nene Thomas print of a woman with little dragons flying around her. It looks really nice together. I’ll have to take a picture to share with you all.
Which Nene Thomas print? She is one of my favorite fantasy artists!
I’d prefer a bird winged pegasus to a bat winged one, but that’s just me. And a PYO kitsune would be cool as well.
enchantments wrote:Arlla pasted on the Peacock lap so I have 1 left. It looks alot better in person, with lots of greens and purples!
If only I had the money or the space. That looks so pretty!
Well I finally got all my paint supplies to do the blue jay/wolf (fox) together, now I just have to test them out on something else first. I just finished pulling something out of a plaster mold. Just have to let that dry for 24 hours before I can test painting on it.
I lucked up and guessed the amount of plaster I needed just right (2 cups plaster + 1 cup cold water). The last time the mold got used was probably 20+ years ago by my father and I didn’t see him mix the plaster at the time. The plaster I have doesn’t seem as white as the plaster my father used, but that could be because it’s still a little wet (I hope).
I’m working on a color mock-up of my PYO in photoshop, but it’s hard to do and make look good when all you have is a mouse to color and erase with.
