Roman Lappat – Miniature Painter and Teacher
Renowned in the miniature world, Roman Lappat from Germany is not only an accomplished artist but also an experienced mentor to many. His creations, infused with artistic passion, showcase immense variety. Roman serves as a guiding light for fellow artists, inspiring them to reach new creative heights. With a distinctive emotional approach, compelling storytelling through dioramas, and impactful brushstrokes, Roman consistently pushes the boundaries of this art form.
My name is Roman Lappat
My name is Roman Lappat and I am a self-employed artist, mainly focusing on miniature art and scale modelling. Born and raised in Augsburg, Germany I have been self-employed since the end of 2009 and working with miniatures ever since.I am the founder of the blog Massive Voodoo, which spreads the word and the beauty of this form of art globally. Together with a handful of great friends the Massive Voodoo blog became a well known place to visit for miniature painters around the world. I used to create a lot of content for Massive Voodoo as a kind of creative diary and to share my thoughts, ideas and projects. In the meantime the blog is not my main focus anymore as life and work balance made me set priorities for family and health. You can find a lot of my daily progresses via my Patreon in the meantime.
Teaching my knowledge to many others is my passion and profession as I studied to become a teacher at a regular public school, but dismissed this path to teach what I love, not what others wanted me to teach. I am teaching miniature painting classes all over Europe, private tutoring in my hometown and help aspiring miniature painters online as good as I can with my job. I loved to add my articles and tutorials to Massive Voodoo's tutorial section, where right now we got about three-hundred-thirty free articles to be enjoyed by our readers. I am adding more actual and in-depth tutorials via my etsy shop in eBook format or via Miniature Painting YouTube videos.
Enjoy!
Miniature Painting is my profession
Well, being a Miniature Painter is definitely not the common every day job, but I will never regret my decisions in life.
My job made it possible to meet many great people during my travels and I am really happy to have so many friends in this world of miniatures. Over the many years I was able to win my share of awards on worldwide miniature events including "Best of Show Awards" and a famous "Slayer Sword" on a Golden Demon Competition. In the meantime I decided to step aside to rather exhibit instead of competing as I am not a competitive nature at all. I am grateful to bring in my expertise while judging renowned miniature events, like World Model Expo, Crystal Brush, Monte San Savino Show, Scale Model Challenge, Nova Open Capital Palette and many more. You will always find me energised for raising funds for charity with my skill that I got - painting miniatures - working together with the Nova Charitable Foundation and other smaller charity events.
Painting miniatures and teaching it made me gain lots of experiences.
I have been able to collect plenty on my creative journeys and these let me see the world, its beauty, its nature and the small things of daily life with a different view. With a sharp mind and trained eagle eyes I learned to observe and extract the small jewels of beauty and harmony. This is also what, how and why I teach.
My goal when teaching is to bring everyone a step further in their personal painting journey by offering different seminar subjects and writing a wide variety of articles. During my self-employment I painted over two thousand miniatures so far, taught over a hundred seminars and made plenty of other miniature enthusiasts happy on their journey of miniature painting. My personal painting focus currently is on display pieces, miniature projects to just look at, like an oil painting on canvas on a wall. I paint an average of six hours a day since several years now and go on to live my motivational motto of ...
Keep on happy painting!
How old are you, Roman?
I was born in 1982.
Do you have a favourite brush?
Yes, always the one I pick to paint something with.
What colors are your favourite brand for painting miniatures?
All of them.