A great way to learn all necessary basics of miniature painting with Roman Lappat

.. time flies and here is another review on one of my recent miniature painting workshops.

Thanks to my students from my recent english language Beginner Workshop in Augsburg for travelling to the MV studio from Denmark, Czech Republic, Russia, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Germany and California.It has been a great weekend, with warm and cold colors, liters of coffee, good chats, and tons of painting knowledge exploding. Thank you for the cool time together in the 'interesting' MV studio. Thanks for making the trip from far and close. Thank you for your support in photos for this article and the happy spirits you brought to the studio. It has been my pleasure!

"There are special places, which can accumulate energy of people who live and work there. For years they absorb unseen emanations of the talent as well as physical evidences of creative processes and become a source of inspiration by themselves. Massive Voodoo Studio is definitely one of such places and I’m happy that managed to visit it before the great move. It’s incredible how the aura of the place can influence your motivation and creativity.

For sure I was not the only one affected, it was enough to look at the glowing eyes of beginners course repeater Josef working hard on his dwarf project (though taking into account two nearly sleepless nights his eyes mostly glowed red, which some other time could be a great asset for OSL class). I won’t exaggerate much by saying that all participants felt the same. The boost of productivity and motivation was amazing. Oh, and also there was a workshop. What I can say for sure is that Roman’s class was the best mini painting training I’ve ever attended. That is definitely 100% true since that is the only class I’ve taken so far. Now seriously, the main peculiarity of the course is consistent theory explanation with its immediate practical exercise. Roman gives general and quite prevalent theories in clear and coherent manner and soon after they are brought to life in students’ test projects under his direct guidance. The intensity and depth of that knowledge is quite challenging and I assume the more one knows and understands before the classes, the better will be the outcome (or at least the higher chances to prevent a brain explosion).

The aftereffect from the class is difficult to explain in few words. It’s a mixture of seething energy of new experience, pleasant fatigue after about 25 hours of learning and doing wonders and slight sadness that crazy weekend finally ended. Contours of fresh ideas and plans appear in tired mind, they are still unclear and faded, but you know that you only need to continue the journey to see them gaining shape and color. Like on a picture I took from nameless bridge over Wertach river in Augsburg on the last foggy morning of the workshop."

- Grygoriy