toy

These photos of painted metal-cast toy knights have a story.

12 December 2010:

Recently*, I painted some solid-cast lead toy soldiers and knights for a friend to sell in a craft show. 
 I really miss working with enamels. And how cool is it to help make toys, especially in a December?

That would be Brianne. This moment in 2010 was a rare moment where I was able to paint a little.

My favorite Rust Monster. Circa 1970s toy chinasaur plastic figure which served as the inspiration for the D&D monster. I’d like to snag more of these someday.

Second of that short-lived, incomplete series once attempted (back in 24 October 2011, this time) of Monster Manual monsters in watercolor: monsters of the alphabet. This is the bulette (pronounced boo'lay).

This was the first to use one of the old plastic chinasaur which served as the inspiration for the monster in D&D in the first place as a model for my watercolors. (I freehanded it from the attached specimen.)

Circa 1970s toy plastic figure (made in Hong Kong.)