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frozendragon you can do a search on the Internet and probably identify a lot of these. I sold some old Breyer horses on eBay a while back and found a good site that I can try to track down again for you. I started all of mine that were in good condotion at $1 and let them go from there. The one that had a broken leg I started at $.01 and I think it ended up selling for more than most of the others.
SPark wrote:I think the pastel colored ones are Fashion Star Fillies.
I could be wrong, but I had one once, and it looked a LOT like those.
I was going to say that or maybe they went with the Lady Lovely Locks dolls because I think I remember horses for them.
Strider wrote:The first dragon with be colored to look like a bright green dragonfly. A bit like this fella >> http://www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/biology/invert04f/photos/Green-darner-dragonfly–Ana.jpg
Oh pretty dragonfly!
dragonessjade wrote:Wow, those are cool. You look a lot like one of my friends.
Yep they are. My hair is shoulder length now with what is left from a perm in February. The pictures are from May/June 2004 when I just was pregnant with our now 2-year-old son.
Greater Basilisk wrote:I was thinking of all the work that has to go into making one. They sound like a lot of fun!
They are a blast and it’s neat to watch him. I’d imagine it would be like watching Melody work. I’m not sure what they are made out of, but I think each one is individualy sculpted.
You mean to make them? Or to take care of/play with them?
The artist sits in his little house at the faire and sculpts away when he isn’t talking with customers. Oh, and he’s done some work on a lot of movie creatures: Gizmo and some of the Gremlins, Bartok from Anastasia, Dobby from Harry Potter, some of the Orcs in LoTR to name a few.
To care for them is simple: avoid extremes (heat and moisture), keep away from animals, avoid harsh chemicals, don’t monkey with the mechanics, et cetera.
To play with you set it on your shoulder and run the cable under your shirt and down your arm. You then twist the nob to move the head left and right and pull it in and out to move up and down. If you have a second control nob that’s for the tail and to imitate breathing.
We did get lucky. The adult we won was one we had looked at, but couldn’t afford. Then when they held him up we went “Wouldn’t it be cool if we won him” and then we did. I can’t remember prices on them exactly but the three large ones we got cost around $200+/- each.
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.
