Art in many forms
Ko-fi tips help keep this content free. Patreon supporters receive PDFs with high res photos. The most common advice miniature painters receive is to paint with stronger contrast between their shadow and highlight areas. I’ve written several articles over the years on this topic. This post collects those articles together for easier reference, and for… Continue reading The Contrast Series Guide
If you like the work I do on this blog, please consider supporting it via my Patreon or a Ko-fi tip. This article is part of a continuing series on contrast in miniature painting. It also serves as an example of some of the issues discussed in my article Suggestions for Contest Entries. On the left… Continue reading Understanding Critique: a Visualization of Lining and More Contrast
If you like the work I do on this blog, please consider supporting it via my Patreon or a Ko-fi tip. In the previous instalments of this series (links later in the article), I walked through my work-in-progress steps of painting the figure Tara the Silent. My aim was to share the way I try to… Continue reading Problem Solving: Tara the Silent Part 4 – A Sisterly Comparison
If you like the work I do on this blog, please consider supporting it via my Patreon or a Ko-fi tip. I think many of us tend to judge our progress of improvement in miniature painting by indicators like making first cut or placing in a contest, going from a bronze to silver then silver to… Continue reading Measuring Progress – More than “Better”
If you like the work I do on this blog, please consider supporting it via my Patreon or a Ko-fi tip. In this post about how to paint miniatures with more contrast, I’m going to discuss technique and paint application ideas for how to increase the level of contrast that you paint into the shadows and… Continue reading How to Paint Contrast – Hands On
Bird with a Brush 