Runicorns 3

 

My pin collecting has carried on all this time.  I'm trying to get every Unicorn pin Minkiewicz Studios releases.  But she is so frightfully prolific!   Here are 3 beautiful "curly" Runicorns.  Forgive the trimmed edges and sometimes-fuzzy results.  It is, as I've often said, extremely hard to photograph these little cuties.

I'm calling these Runicorns 1, 2, and 3.  Their official names are Runicorn Series II green, blue and lavender (not to be confused with Runicorns Series II Talismans)*.  The first is actually backgrounded in chartreuse green, not always my favorite color but it works well here.  He can come out candylike, as above, or like this -- look at that mane!  

What looks black is actually the stunning rainbow-oil-iridescent layer, which worked so well with Chargon.  3 Mink orders  As that blog post documents, it was first used on a unicorn's body in 2023.  A couple of years later, heh there's no stopping her.

 I especially like charger no. 1.  His pose is rampant.  They all are.  

This second Runicorn has the very-typical-of-Mink pose of looking in one direction and leaping the other.  It gives him a Celtic gripping-critter unity, a curling about oneself that lends beautifully to heraldry and logos.  It forms lovely pairs.  It also shows, I think, the sheer athleticism of the unicorn.  Very few deer would do this!

This Runicorn 2 also can appear candylike.  Mink has a perfect sense of color co-ordination.  Forgive the poor focus;  I was shooting squatting and aiming sidewise -- ! 

 I usually collect the more realistic Dancing Horses and Imperial and Celestial (and Jewelled) Unicorns.  What am I doing going after the Runicorns, Cave Pony Unicorns, Unilumes, metal pins of unicorns and god knows what she'll dream up next -- ??!!?

There is a simple elegance to their design that is genuinely classic.

The third Runicorn can look pink:

 Or he can look lavender, which is what he's supposed to be.

 Together the three of them form a unity, which flows from one point to another.  Mink has done many Runicorn pieces in her two series.  These are some of the most enchanting.

*I have compiled an exhaustive spreadsheet of all of Mink's pins, five years' worth at this point.