Basic Miniature Painting Skills learned at this workshop by Roman Lappat

Good Morning Jungle people,

the last couple of months I was teaching a lot. 2018 marks a spot for me as I am recovering from a travel burn out and try to organise all my seminars in my hometown Augsburg in Germany, Bavaria.I am grateful. Full of thanks to everyone who comes to these seminars to learn from me. More news about upcoming workshops for Miniature painters!

This class review is about my first english spoken beginner's class and I am thankful to all my students who travelled from Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Austria, Ireland, Germany, Sweden and even White Russia. I feel very honored and I am happy that this class brought joy to every painter's heart after two and a half days.

Many thanks to Peter for helping me organising this seminar.

Without your help I would have been lost.

Well, Beginner Class?
What is it? A quote from the Workshop review section:

"The word 'beginner' might be confusing to many first time participants of this class.
It is not a class for 'only' beginners. In fact it is a class for every person, at every age interested in figure painting, whatever their experience level is.

'Beginners class' means here that Roman aka jarhead gives an introduction into his way of thinking while painting, in detail a lot of important theory is explained while doing a walk through Art History and is used in practical exercises. During the weekend you will not only learn to improve your painting skills, you will also learn the 'Why?' behind everything explained and with that you will be able to teach yourself in your own hobby future by just recognizing what nature has to offer.

The theory parts contain:

- Learn to see your world with different eyes
- Introduction into basing composition
- Learn how to feel harmony in different aspects
- Important contrasts for figure painting
- Explanation about how to paint a light situation on your figure
- Understand colour theory and learn how to use it properly
- Learn about different materials, their unique properties and learn to paint them
- Learn to lose fear of doing something wrong

Thanks to Ilya from White Russia who supported this review with his
wonderful photos. He was a great photo ninja and caught beautiful
portraits and still lifes during the class. Many thanks, Ilya.