Here we go with a review from my first workshop ever

Aloa,

so here we go with a review from my first workshop ever - done in the early months of 2009 in Graz/Austria. Ok here we go... got a couple of coffees beside me and i am ready to review this weekend in Graz, with a lot of dwarf berserkers from Avatars of War, a lot of fun to paint, a lot of great people ... i guess it sounds stupid to say thank you Felix all the time, but i can't help myself, so again a big thank you Felix for your amazing support on my workshops...

First i have to thank everyone who has taken part in the workshop, specially to Robert (yeah this guy here - this workshop was our start of our friendship i guess) for his talent of organisation and his sister for being such an angel all the time. Another thankful shout goes out to Felix and Johanna from Avatars of War again who made this also happen like everyone else who had his fun on this very special event to me...

The workshop took part in the library of the techniqual university of Graz/Austria. Here is a little overview over the place we had under siege over the weekend.

The main goal of the workshop was:

Basic goal of the
workshop is showing different perspectives and techniques to paint fast
and well looking gaming miniatures while surfing through the history
time line, art has gone in the wing of art history. To get to know and
understand a lot of things like light work, colour concepts and theory
out of the artworks from artists like Rubens, Giotto, Rembrandt, also
actual artists and a lot more to create an harmonic final look of a
miniature...

As told above main concept on the workshop has been a travel through art history. As i am becoming a teacher of art class
in Germany someday in the future i really tried to bring miniature
painting together with ... Ãhm, i mean everything. I tried to show the
people who have been participating at the workshop that a miniature is
also a canvas like everything else you find in art, especially those
great Avatars of War Models from Spain.

We met on Friday
at 13:00 o'clock and started a bit with organisation talking and so on.
Then planned the basework for the model. We had a lot of basing
equipment with us and find inspiration in pictures of nature which i had
collected and shown for this part of the workshop. One example of what i
am talking about.

We did a lot of
demonstration painting this day about detail work, like leather, eyes,
metallics, gems, clothing, blood and some more. During this we really
used every inch of time painting like greek war gods... i had made about
300 kilometers this day while doing my round through the participants
and their individual dwarfs... helping out, bringing some more input or
just saying "wow" of the improvements made by them... a real joy!



To the afternoon
some had to left the place because they had a longer way home but i want
to say thank you all again for that great time. I hope everyone was
happy with the workshop i have done there and i am greatfully thankful
of every constructive criticism you gave me for my next workshops... it
really was like bees and flowers, everywhere great ideas, thoughts and
moments around those lillte dwarfes...



We took the
chance to get some group photos of all the dwarfs which came up from the
workshop. Not everyone is finished, but hey that ain't easy on a
weekend when Roman (me, jar) is talking all the time - here they are...

Painting was spread in Austria, hopefully a lot of painting meetings will start and
as the participants said - we will do another one in Graz/Austria in one
year, not a beginner workshop - more a high level Bob Ross lesson with
totally energy...

Thank you again, Avatars of War to help made this happen...

Happy Painting!

Regards
Roman aka jar