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A Wing is a Wing... or is it?

1/27/2018

Let's play again with a new product that "clearly" looks like it is just right to be used for Fairy Wings.

First, I tried a couple of different types of paints on the Clearly for Art modeling film to see how they would react with it. The cool thing with this product is that with hot air, the modeling film becomes flexible and can be molded and bent. As it cools, it will stay in the shape it was formed. Since the clear film can bend, I also needed a paint that bent as well without chipping or peeling.

Now I am ready to start. I cut a paper pattern and then traced it on to the film. A heated blade (much like a wood burner type of tool) was used to cut out the pattern as the clear film is very stiff and difficult to cut with a normal razor. I had also tried cutting this product with scissors and didn't like the results as much.

I then painted the lines of my wings on the film with the pattern underneath. Now here is the "Secret"... after all, fairies do love sharing secrets.

I added a secret ingredient to the acrylic paint to make the paint appear dimensional, to give it the illusion of stained glass and to have it stick better to the film....
TAH DAH!
It is Aleene's Tacky Glue.

I painted the wings with a couple of different colors. Another secret is that ALL of the paints need to be mixed with the glue. If not, then when any other color is applied, it will simply wipe off the color below it. By applying different colors, I get a shading effect that one doesn't always get with stained glass.

The modeling film is going to be a product that has a lot of potential down the road *smiling*.

Here are my wings with some metallic gold and some green glitter added. After all, no descent fairy wings can lack "fairy dust"... or in other words, glitter. A final application of clear fingernail polish is applied to seal the paint from minor scratches over the dried paint. I now can't rub off the paint, but it can be scratched off. The nail polish reduces this possibility.

And finally...

TAH DAH!

Here are the wings on the Shadow King (aka Hunter) whom you will be seeing more of in the future.

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Granny Gets Caught...

1/5/2018

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“I wish I could have found what I needed in these books, but I am glad that Gardner left his wheel barrow out again. It does make it easier to for me to bring all of these books back,” thought Granny Flare as she pushed the load of books to Atian’s hut.

As Granny neared the hut she saw Atian sitting on his mushroom reading again. Or maybe he had never left it from the time she first borrowed the books. “Books with outdated information are so frustrating!” she grumbled as she approached.

“What did you say?” asked Atian, “And what did you mean by ‘outdated information’”?

“Your books were not much help Atian,” replied Granny.

Looking slightly puzzled, Atian put down the book he was reading and shot Granny a glare. “What do you mean Granny? These books are about Dragon history. How could they be outdated? It is not like Dragons have been seen here for hundreds of years.” Atian walked over to the wheel barrow and picked up the top book in the pile and opened it to the middle.

Granny walked up behind him and looked over his shoulder at the open page. "Now see that picture? It is all wrong", Granny snapped without thinking. "A baby dragon has smaller wings and the nose bump is all wrong. Even the tail is not right... it should be shorter.”

“How do you know that Granny? No one has seen a Dragon since these books were first scribed and babies were rarely seen."

Blushing, Granny realized that she had just made a mistake. “I… I…”

“So Granny, I think you need to tell me more about what you know regarding baby Dragons.”

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Snoop starts snooping...

1/3/2018

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"What is the Baroness hiding I wonder?" thought Snoop. Just having left her tea parlor, Snoop wasted no time in starting his ‘snooping’. "Maybe if I visit Atian he can see what clues I might be missing.

"We shall see… We shall see...” he thought. "After all, he is a fellow council member and the Village Historian and I am going to need help solving this mystery of what the Baroness is hiding."

As Snoop starts his walk to Atian's hut, Atian already has a visitor, Granny Flare. She yells out the front door as he is sitting in his favorite reading spot, the oversize mushroom in his yard.

"What else do you have on dragon's?" Granny asks. "Since you are the Historian, you might as well be the Librarian. You are the only one in the whole village with a decent collection of books." Not waiting for Atian to respond, she continues, "Do you have anything on the care and maintenance of a baby dragon?"

"Try the second stack behind the door. Towards the bottom," replies Atian. Granny soon finds them at the very bottom of the indicated pile. "If Atian was a Brownie he certainly would be much more organized than this, that's for sure," Granny thinks to herself.

As Snoop nears Atian's hut, he sees the Historian sitting on the large mushroom and reading one of his books. "Yep! Nothing strange here... Atian always seems to have his 'nose' in a book", Snoop thinks smiling to himself.

Granny sees Snoop coming up the walkway through a small window of the hut and decides she had better get out of there. "All I need now is Snoop snooping around and asking questions I don't want to answer," Granny decides.

"Atian, I am going to borrow a few of these books and will return them to you later in the week. Is that is okay with you?" Again, not waiting for Atian to answer, Granny sneaks out the backdoor of the hut with the books in tow.

"Good morning Atian, my old friend," greets Snoop.

Before looking up from his book, Atian mumbles to himself, "My day started so much quieter before all my friends started dropping in".

As Atian peers over the top of his book he replies, "Hello, Augustus (aka Snoop). I predicted from the way Granny Flare was just here that you would also be showing up soon."

"How would you know that?" responds a startled Snoop.

"It is all in seeing the patterns of history. That is my specialty after all. Now, how can I help you? You usually have some bee in your bonnet (or top hat) when you come to see me."

"I just finished having tea with the Baroness and I know that she is hiding something. She was twitching, nervous, and appeared like she was trying not to tell me something."

As he listens to Snoop's theories, Atian starts putting together recent events and some of the things that Granny Flare said while she was hunting through his books. Ideas started floating around in his head. Crazy ideas they were indeed!!!

"Snoop, Granny Flare was just here and she did mentioned that the Baroness had received a letter today from her grandfather, the Baron. This might be part of the mystery of why she was so twitchy and anxious as she told Granny that she had to leave town suddenly because of it."

"Did she say anything more?" asked Snoop.

"Granny did say she was being left in charge, but as to what, she wasn't sharing those details. Could this have something to do with the books she was asking about regarding baby Dragons? We all know about the Dragons leaving the Village and how that brought down the decline of the Village, but you are wanting to know more... Am I correct? There is a pattern here that the two of you are weaving regarding the need to know about Dragons."

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