Miniature Painting Workshops for Beginners by Roman Lappat

Good Monday Morning Jungle,

it is time to dig again in the past year.
Check back with actual miniature painting workshop dates!

Back in December 2014 Roman and Peter travelled to the second episode of MV Jar's Beginners Class in the Netherlands.The first class in Sprang-Capelle took place exactly one year earlier

- you can find a review of it here.

Well, this class was a blast for both teachers of Massive Voodoo and the students. This class was packed with repeaters of the class and only a handful first timers. Thanks to everybody who was a part on this weekend. Thank you for the cool time we enjoyed together and your will to learn more about miniature painting from us!

Another big thanks goes to the sponsors of the class, those companies who help MV with their support in material to bring a happy painting time to different locations:

PK-Pro

Sockelmacher

Juweela

Modelmates

and Kellerkind Miniatures.

First things first.

Peter and Roman had a little trip with the train and arrived in Brussels Thursday evening where they got picked up by Gert via car. After a nice dinner at Gert's place a nice relaxed evening was spent there before sleep took us over.

It is important to say: In 2013 we thought the organisation of the class was close to perfect thanks to Jurgen, Gert and Peter but via this class and the preparation all of them took care of (before, during and after) we can easily say it was even better.

Many thanks to you both, Gert and Jurgen - we really felt so good to be at the well prepared venue again and enjoyed the great organisation of the food and drinks. If there was a question left both, Gert and Jurgen were just there giving you the answer and their help. Thank you for all your hospitality all over again. It is really a pleasure to organise such an event with you guys!

Many thanks to Peter for helping Roman with so many repeaters in this classroom!

from left to right: Gert, Jurgen, Peter, Roman

Well, before we start into the jungle's review of the class let's have a look on UK Miniature Painter

Peter 'Avicenna" Bell, who wrote down his expectations before taking the class for the first time:

"ROAD TRIP!

The awesome guys over at Massive Voodoo are doing another of their International Beginners Painting Classes in the Netherlands this coming December…. and this time I’m going!

For any of you who don’t know Massive Voodoo, they are a creative bunch of so-and-so’s based in Germany who have a really great ethos when it comes to the hobby. It is all about enjoying the art of painting miniatures, and the community that is brought about by the hobby.

In their words:

"Massive Voodoo’s aim is to inspire people to have the most fun while enjoying the passion of miniature painting. We also want to reach people who are not yet even knowing about the beauty of this little miniature world and as long as we can hold a brush we will continue to do so. Those small figures and the worlds you can create around them bring so much joy."

And they very much succeed. I read the blog pretty much every week, and really hope to bring some of their enthusiasm and passion for what they do back to the UK with me as well as new techniques and style to add to my repertoire.

What will also make this an awesome trip is that I am going with a good friend of mine who has experienced the might of a Massive Voodoo painting class before, and there are going to be a number of internet friends that I will meet for the first time on this adventure.

I can’t wait!"

Found via jollybodgers.com

Peter B. wrote down some words after the class and we thank Peter B. for his kind words and the cool write up!

Friday

The class itself was really busy. From theory parts about harmony to practical preparations and base building - everybody was busy on Friday night. Beginners and repeaters.

Saturday

The morning arrived with some more practical work on the bases, adding some details here and there, putting some of the colour theory from the night before to the test and getting closer to noon, where we would meet up outside for priming our projects.

Small animals - easy to lose!

Some did not even believe what they did the night before!

After lunch the miniatures waited for us, primed. So it was time to jump into the painting process. While Peter and Roman took both care of the repeaters needs, it was clear sometimes - with such a huge gang of repeaters - that Roman would not be at their side because he was taking care of the beginners painting and experiments with the new techniques shown. Thanks again to Peter for helping out with the repeaters and doing it the "bad cop style".

Sunday

This morning arrived again rather quick. Time is flying by if you are having fun and learn something new in regular intervalls. Sunday was packed with little tricks to close in into a nore harmonic look on the beginner's projects, pushing those demonettes as far as we could and the repeaters did put their efforts and skills to achieve better and better results. Remember: Every minute spent is worth it!

Discussion about miniatures took place

Wim to Phill: "Put away that smartphone man!

Paint, before Peter or Roman appear again! Don't you waste so much precious time!"

Well, but Sunday closed in to an end of the class in the late afternoon. Many thanks to Patrick from Scenery Workshop who did photos of mostly all of the models. As you can see in this review Roman and Peter were not able to do many photos as they were busy teaching full time.

Let's have a look on the results of this weekend workshop:

This first timer worked his demonette's skin with some tourquoise and did well in understanding the new painting techniques, theory about zenithal light and colour composition.