#wingsandstrings

[tomcoletti]

It has been a long while since I’ve updated my commission sheet, so here’s the updated 2022 edition with some newer paintings and more current info to mark my reopening on this site. I mostly do furry portraiture, mechanical art, and landscape art these days, in any combination you can come up with!

If you’d like to order a digital commission painting, inquiries can be sent to [email protected]

Pricing is $30 USD/hour, and more of my art can be found at https://twitter.com/TomColetti

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“A Space Pawdyssey” - Commission

Another commission painting from this batch, for twitter.com/spacepawdyssey’s paperback edition of their webcomic. The painting’s a very blatant spoof of posters for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey of course.

Commissions are still closed as of 4/24/2018 but I’ll be re-opening soon, so be sure to check back or follow along for updates and more art!

--Wings & Strings

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Second 3D Sculpt: "Keeley" - 3D model by Tom Coletti

My second completed Sculptris/Zbrush sculpt of Keeley, a black shiba inu character of mine. I’m gradually learning to refine my models and reduce poly counts as I go, using more emphasis on textures than polys to show detail. This is also my first time joining two subtools so that I could add a simple mount and plaque for the character bust to rest upon. Still have much to learn and improve upon, but the process has been fun so far. –W&S

Click the link to open an interactive 360-degree viewer!

I’ll eventually try to offer these Zbrush sculpts as commission items for those who want to get a custom 3D bust of their characters.

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“A Las Tiendas”

A newly-finished painting of engine #67 of the Ferrocarril Interoceánico de México, drifting somewhere through the streets of the Mexican capital in the late 1960s. This narrow gauged steam locomotive is now on static display at the Monument to the Revolution. This piece was done as a painting study of a period photo taken of the engine while it was still in service on the NdeM which had absorbed the FCI by this point.

Still closed for commissions but I’ll let you know when I’ve re-opened for my winter sale!

More info available at wings-and-strings.tumblr.com/commissions;

Inquiries can be sent to [email protected]

–Wings & Strings

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‘Warring on Paper” (Commission)

If you’re wondering where I disappeared to in the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on this painting commission between several wildfires. It depicts a fictitious naval battle in the early 1800s between the USS Ohio, HMS Prussianti, HMS Duke of Kent, and La Vestale. The Duke of Kent and the Prussianti--listed as an unnamed 160-gun ship of the line--were drafted by the British navy but never built, so for this painting I had the interesting task of studying both the drawings and other contemporary ships of the line to flesh out their details. The client was especially helpful in providing the plans, models, diagrams, and other historical information to help this painting take shape.

As of 12/19/17 I am still currently closed for commissions so that I can work through my queue, so follow or check back often to find out when I will reopen for a new commission batch! Critters, portraits, machines & more will be available.

More info available at wings-and-strings.tumblr.com/commissions;

Inquiries can be sent to [email protected]

–Wings & Strings

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Some selected works from the past 12 months. 2017 was a raging dumpster fire of idiocy & fascism, but hopefully I made some decent art while the world went to shit... except in August. August was exceptionally shit.

Commissions will be re-opening soon for my winter holiday sale, so keep an eye out for that if you’ve wanted a commission piece but could benefit from the discount. But before that I’ll be holding a small portrait raffle on Twitter in the coming days, so if you have an account there, I’ll post a link for Tumblr users to participate.

--Wings & Strings

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“Playing to Lose” - Commission

A piece painted for https://www.furaffinity.net/user/darkriderx/ of their wolf character, an ex-train robber and blackjack gambler who outlived the wild west as little more than a rumor and a name. In the distance, an ex-Rio Grande Southern C-19 steam locomotive enjoys a more comfortable retirement.

As of 11/8/17 I am currently closed for commissions so that I can work through my queue, so follow or check back often to find out when I will reopen for a new commission batch! Critters, portraits, machines & more will be available.

More info available at wings-and-strings.tumblr.com/commissions;

Inquiries can be sent to [email protected]

–Wings & Strings

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“Appalachian Autumn” - Commission

Just completed this 10-hour painting of a bull moose and yellow-winged warbler basking in the sun of a crisp fall morning. I’ve been on a bit of a rim-lighting binge ever since I started doing light & value studies more regularly.

If you would like to order a painting in this style, I am currently open for commissions of portraiture, landscapes, critters, and industrial tech!

More info available at wings-and-strings.tumblr.com/commissions;

Inquiries can be sent to [email protected]

–Wings & Strings