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This one was done three years ago. He’s had some work done on him about 6 months ago when I learned how to do flexable fins. I love him. for some reason he never sold.
This isn’t the best picture but I’ll try and snap a few more. He’s really dusty right now and living on the top shelf oft he book shelfs.What happens after they are done ??
I pray that they sell 🙂 I depend on my art work to stay unemployed. My husband and I came to the agreement that I could stay home and work on my art and as long as I made enough to feed the 7 dogs and the 2 horses as well as thier medical needs then I can stay unemployed 🙂
I chose his color from some very interesting very brightly colored seahorses.
That chunk he’s sitting on is fake coral and I bought it a walmart just for him to sit on. Sometimes the little sculptures/remodels sell for more then big guys.
I sold a bat winged draft in copper and black for 75.00 a few months back! I am not going to complain. Sometimes a piece is sought after and I get bidding wars on them.
truthfully I just love doing them, big small, doesn’t matter I spend hours and hours working on them. I have three on my paint table waiting for color. I just started one that’s a lime green with gold undertones and she’s getting tribal spirals in black gold painted on her.I just finished this little fellow.The horse part is a breyer stable mate with major resculpting of the face, new mane,forelock and eye,the tail was hand done and it was a see if I could do it on that small a scale. He’s got a lot of depth to his color I kept laying translucent color over color. I like him he’s got some spunk.
I envy people that sew and sew well. I can sew but am a 100X better at hand sewing then machine sewing.
Those critters are awesome!!
I worked for a company that made dog toys and beds and I sucked at it. I lasted 3 whole days before the owner and I came to the mutal consent that I just didn’t have the knack for it.
You have the knack!
You should consider making some dog and cat toys with eyes that are sewn on instead of the plastic kind and expand your selling base. Double sew seams make them strong and durable and retain that really cutiewierd style you have.
FizzGig is my favorite 🙂I want to put up some of my flat art on cafe’press and I was wondering what do I color the pictures with. Now mind that I don’t have a grahics tablet.
I tried painting them with acrylic,I tried high quality colored pencils and I tried to color them on the computer using adobe photo shop.
When I scan them at high resolution they look horrible. You can see the brush strokes and the lines…
I’d really like to try my hand at some t-shirt ideas and I’m at a loss as how to get my art work on the site and have it retain it’s quality. Since they want it at a resolution of 300 DPI and saved in PNG the finished product looks chunky.
So any idea??Maebnus3 wrote:Man, you’ve got some beautiful stuff on your site. I LOVE the boxes! The designs you have up are so much nicer than the junk I’ve seen in stores (and several craft fairs, for that matter).
I guess I’ll have to toot my own horn 🙂 I put so much heart and soul into my boxes,scuptures I hate to do something half way, it’s got to be the best I can do every time or I’ll repaint them, or give them away.
I face paint when I can and I am not happy unless the child I’m painting is happy I’ve sat and redone some faces because the kid didn’t like something, they have to smile and like it. I got a face paint once and the guy charged me 20.00 and it was the worst face paint job I’d ever seen I swore I was going to learn how to do it and I did and I was 19 then. I also swore no kid would every go away from my booth unhappy or feeling cheated. I give alot of face paintings away.To often there a children there and the parents are to busy getting drunk and thier kids wants a face paint and they say no I’m to expensive or other rude things and these kids will sit there and watch for hours, I usually sit them in the chair and face paint them just for the joy it brings. I also get alot of free publicity because I tell the kids to tell everyone where they got thier faces painted 🙂
I’m sure rambling alot today…sorry yall’Kyrin wrote:Okay, so when can we expect to see your paint jobs on a Windstone unicorn??
I definately want to sign up! Man what you can do is amazing! I especially love the hearts paint uni, but the stallion with the windblown mane and tail is breathtaking too, and I love Autumn leaves, man is he cool.
Anyway, definately need to see what you do with a PYO…can’t wait to see one from you.
Kyrin
As far as painting some PYO’s I’d love to but there just isn’t any money to spend on them. I am flat broke and feeling the pinch.
This has to have been the hardest three months, I haven’t sold any of my art work. Hubby want’s me to go back to work in the real world but I don’t want to! this is the healtiest and happiest I’ve been in years! I want to stay home and do nothing but my art work,painting,sculpting,drawing,beading….sigh I love it! and being home I spend more time with my critters and it’s very good for the heart and soul to go out and love on my horse when I need a pick me up.
Now if anyone wants me to do a PYO I’d be willing to trade a blank for a blank. I paint one in exchange for a blank ?????
it makes my hubby bonkers because I trade away so much of my art work. He’s intiltled since he the sole provider right now.
Thanks for all the wonderful feed back!if you go to my web site there is a purple arabian stallion done in a tribal style pattern and his color shifs from rich purple to a bright blue. He was fun I saw this tattoo and wanted to try it on a unicorn and it came out so well.
I free hand all those patterns and most of them just happen, I rarely control the pattern I tend to get lost in dreaming when I paint and sometimes the piece will tell me a story as I paint. I’ll come out of my trance and the whole thing will be painted and 5 hours have passed and my but will be asleep. 🙂 LOL
I remove the existing mane and tails and sometimes I’ll cut into the neck and head and reposition them and then resculpt the neck and head and then give them new manes and tails. I use epoxy scupting stuff you mix equal parts and then it will set up rock hard in 24 hours. It’s very sticky the first 20 mins and then it gets stiffer as I work and if I mix up to much it will be rock hard and I’ll have to much left over and waste it. I’m getting better at mixing up the right amount.
I love it! I enjoy every minute I’m in my studio and working. Heck hubby only sees me at supper because I’ll go right back in there and work, I spend between 12 and 15 hours in there a day.it looks to me like she’s about to wean him doesn’t she?? I swear she’s saying watch that horn son!
I have a picture of a foal where his neck is dipped to nurse he looked like a swan. I figure if a real colt can curve it’s neck like that then a Unicorn foal can to.
There have been some very heated discussions about unicorn foal horns. I say that it appears after birth and grows rapidly as unicorn foals don’t nurse as long as horse foals. They get fodder from moonlight and rose blooms 🙂
The spirals can either get tighter as they age or looser. I make them loose and they get tighter with age.I have every book she’s ever written!!
I love her stuff! I’m re-reading the Joust series right now. I just got through re-reading the elf/car series. I don’t have nay book money right now so I’m stuck re reading books but thats okay I have a pretty good collection of paper backs. I love to re read my books it’s like visting old friends.I thought I was alone! I devoured those books too! I was so mad when it just ended and left us hanging!! I was yelling at the book!
They have web site! There is a discussion about turning it into a movie…
I have to agree that all books are better then the movies.
take for instance..”The Last Unicorn” I’ve read that book at least once a year if not more since I was 10 years old.
I’m a bigger reader. A book a day or every other day. I read as fast as I speak, I love to read!This mare has been done for a while but the whole time she’s sat on the shelf yelling at me that she wasn’t done. So I picked up the paintbrush and the pattern just flew on her. The her foal started in that he wanted a new do to 🙂
So here they are.
cold crisp mornings and the smell of a warm horse. fresh clean sheets and blankets when it’s cold out.Nothing smells better or feels nicer then clean sheets and quilts when the house is cold so you can burrow into them….
fresh lavender, fresh wild mint crushed by my horses hooves when we ride through the woods.
sigh….
I wanna go riding.being broke bites! no gas in the truck or I’d be at the state park lost in the woods till dark.The hardest part of loving a fur child is finding the courage to let them go.
I know your hurting and words are just words…I believe they come back to us. Not always but sometimes thier souls are given another chance and they return and some how or another they find thier way back to us.
I have a horse that thinks he’s a big dog. He wraps his head around my body and hugs me to him, he licks my hands and nuzzles my hair. He goes as far as pulling the screens off the house and sticking his head in looking for me. He jumps the back fence and puts his head through the dog door. He tries the door knob and when that doesn’t work he stands on the back porch and stomps till I come out. He is my Joy, my comfort, my friend and he was truly a gift from God.
I had a very rough childhood and if not for my pony and my dog I would never learned how to love and to trust.
The bond between a woman and a horse is trully amazing, I swear that there is something magical about the strength of a horse and a woman. Now this may sound sexist but I have seen it more often with women then men. We train and teach with love more often then men and horses will open up to a woman more often then a man.
We talk about them with love and passion in our hearts and eyes. When we loose a horse it wounds us, we hurt and we mourn.
You have to hold on to the wonderful memories of your friend and someday another horse will come into your life and there will be something in it’s eyes or the way it moves that will remind you of a lost friend and then one day you’ll remember and it won’t hurt, because you will know that he’s come back to you.
Hang in there it will get better, it will hurt for a long time but it will get better.Sorry for the ramble…woke up with a migrane and the migrane meds make me a chatty cathy and I tend to ramble.
