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Things are happening in the mold department!
We have unearthed the "Keeper Dragon" master. This sculpture is the larger of the two Paint-your-own dragons I made.
If you would like to see him out of his case, here is a link to a picture of a test painted Keeper in my Elfwood gallery: http://melodypena.elfwood.com/Paint_your_own_paw_up_dragon.3031676.html

We were only able to cast about fifty of these pieces before the molds ripped and we had to stop casting them. Our move from California to Oregon began, and that brought the casting and mold department to a halt.

The Gothic Unicorn is a great mystery.
If you are unfamiliar with this piece, The "Gothic Unicorn" is a funny looking goat-like unicorn sculpture, with a poofy llama tail.

He is retired in the white color, but I had always intended to paint him in other colors.

The mystery about him is...what happened to him?

The epoxy master, along with the master "case", has turned up missing. The "case" is a crucial piece of tooling that is used to pour the molds; it forms the outside shape of the rubber mold and is precisely fitted to the master sculpture.

Last night I went over to a new friend’s house and found a Windstone in her living room!

It belonged to her roommate, who had owned it for years. They were both excited to find out it was my mom who made it.

This is "April" the Windstone forum raffle prize for April.

This is a test painted Lap dragon that has been painted over so many times her detail has begun to fill in, but she is still very pretty in her various shades of copper, ruby, gold and deep red. She has probably been painted by both Olimpia and I. This old girl has been doing her job as a test paint guinea pig long enough, and now she needs a good home where she can stay the same color!

Ouch.
More fun with fantasy animals.
In addition to coming up with convincing BS anatomy for them, you also get to invent their whole natural history!
I did this drawing of a hatchling griffin about thirty years ago, and started working on the problems about how they have babies. I took the easy way out and assumed that they are hatched from eggs in nests and were fed the way eagles feed their young, but with horse guts instead of ground squirrels . Did you know that griffins eat horses?

My previous blog "The meaning of art" touches on another facet of the same thought, though I didn't really discuss it:
That art is defined by YOU, the artist.
Do you agree?
With this in mind, I will now put forth my thoughts on the matter of Modern art; in defense of the most obnoxious, irritating, my-cat-could-do-that, gallery full of crap you can imagine, and perhaps I can make you understand why I think it is wonderful.

Since I am often too skilled in creating confusion, I will try to abate it early on- this blog entry is written by Windstone artist Jennifer Miller.

I, like nearly every other artist upon this earth, am inspired heavily by the natural world. There are more crazy things in nature than our imaginations can come up with, and that's all good with me. Nature's craziness plus artistic imagination combined and things can get really interesting.

I'm sitting here burning my lips on some really hot coffee, and I'm confident that you want to know this.

I'm thinking about the internet's social network sites, and art, and realizing that they serve the same function for me.
They both address the same question I crave to have answered.

This is the reason I care about art - This is the burning, ultimate question I have always had, and passionately seek to have answered ...

... what's it like being you??

These are "furbirds". Furbirds are winged meerkats from Reptangle(tm), my forever unpublished comic, so that puts them in the same category as the Lion Kirin and the Poads(tm), meaning that they have more meaning in the context of the story.
The drawing is one of the characters from Reptangle (tm).
The photo image is a mock up of the way I would like them to look as finished sculpture. This image is made out of a photo of the baby meerkat we produced in a limited batch, and the wing off of a female griffin.

I've got zillions of sketches, both drawings and 3d mock-ups of ideas I would like to do as Windstone pieces in the future. I haven't been showing many of these ideas because I am so behind in sculpting, it seems crazy to think about new sculpture that when I have over a dozen half-finished sculptures that are waiting for attention.

What the heck. I'm going to show them anyway.