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I’m doing some prep work for some windstone pyos. Both of these are personal paints that I’m staining using green tea. You can really see which parts of the gypsom sucked up more water by the stain colour. Don’t know when I’ll get around to these though.
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Finished colourway options for the parasaur mask. Help! I can’t decide which one to do now though! Poll is on my twitter, please consider jumping over to cast your vote ; https://twitter.com/ezekiellplays/status/1544534085993119745?s=21&t=SFRgwwYiMI0qs14nbE2zlA ALT View on Twitter
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Almost done with the colourway options for the para mask. This one is looking particularly sexy.
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Look at this cute little face! Gonna shade this once it’s attached to the rest of the bear.
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I bought some inktense blocks to try out for shading. They are great for under shading colours on fabric pads but I ended up using my intense pencils using the water dip method to get the fine edging details though.
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Non-zero progress on Miwak’s skull hat! I reinforced all the joins with worbla strips, then sanded down with the dremel/by hand. The friction heat from sanding was an advantage for blending the seam lines together somewhat. I used the last of my foam clay to start sculpting out the details which will later be covered…
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I’ve now installed the pads and readied everything for final assembly. I’m now sewing in palm pads unstuffed then stuffing through a horizontal cut near the bottom seam; this gives all the benefits of an easy install & reduced annoying lump from the stuffing seam. The finger pads I will continue to sew in stuffed…
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Some more progress on the commission paws. All the fur pieces have been assembled and the pads/claws are now prepped for installation.
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A natural coloured bear in progress. Here’s a look at all 52 pieces, which took about 5 hours total to cut and prepare for sewing.
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Personal paint of a #WindstoneEditions pyo to resemble my companion parrot. Painted using atelier acrylics & folkart metallics, with antiquing & wash shadowing in 7 different colours, drybrushed highlights/blending, and sealed with an archival satin varnish.