Art in many forms
The Patreon supporter PDF version of this article includes additional photographs. Ko-fi tips are another way to help keep this content freely available to everyone. Choosing colours is hard. So don’t choose - steal! This article offers tips for how to find, adapt, and apply an inspirational colour scheme to your figures, with links to… Continue reading How to Steal a Colour Scheme
Ko-fi tips help keep this content free. Patreon supporters receive a PDF with high res photos and a few work-in-progress pictures. Working out the colours to paint a miniature can be tough! I want to share the process I used to choose the colour scheme for the figure below, as well as a few other ideas… Continue reading How to Test Colour Schemes: Fathom
Ko-fi tips help keep this content free. Patreon supporters receive PDFs with high res photos. One of the things that’s been interesting about studying more traditional art forms after learning to paint miniatures is discovering that there are common issues and areas of mistaken focus for learners of all forms of visual media. One area that… Continue reading Colour Matching is Not the Secret Code to Realism
Ko-fi tips help keep this content free. Patreon supporters receive PDFs with high res photos. One of my goals as a teacher of miniature painting is to encourage people to do more experimentation and testing. Willingness to experiment means willingness to spend time that might not result in a finished miniature. It also means potential… Continue reading Wash Colour Experiments
Ko-fi tips help keep this content free. Patreon supporters receive PDFs with high res photos. When I started to think about writing a handbook of miniature painting, I had an idea of where I wanted to start. And it wasn’t here. ;-> One of the challenges I wrestle with in teaching is deciding in what… Continue reading The Anatomy of Colour
Bird with a Brush 