I'll be working on this stuff forever...

In February I attended a painting tutorial, something I don’t think I’ve ever done! The goal was to learn a method of getting a 1 hour paint job to a decent standard. Without using an airbrush.
So, minis prepped and pre-primed, along I went.

It turns out I needn’t have pre-primed… step one was prime with colour. HA! Oh well. It meant that I only had to prime in one colour [Vellejo Gory Red rattle can] which was applied from under the mini.

After spraying appropriate colours for the shadows, it is time for 1st drybrush. A Bone/ off-white colour preferably. The following steps use Speedpaint/Contrast… so kind of like that Slapchop thing all those dudes on YouTube are raving about.

Next step: picking colours. On a piece of art paper (it’s nice and white and just the right absorbancy). Our Tutor, Tom, supplied all the paints. These are his re-bottled Contrast paints. So, by throwing some colours on a page like this, we can see what the colours will turn out like and see if they match what we are planning before we throw them at the mini.

If that looks good then start painting. Since I was doing something more like a colour scheme than a uniform, I began applying the [Doomfire Magenta] from the bottom up and the [Talassar Blue] from the top down.

I got the first one “wrong” not really thinking about it, I put the Magenta at the top on a patch. I let it be, just wanting to focus on learning the skills, not trying to get it “right” straight away.

As I got more confident, I started blending the colours more in the middle on the mini, but also pushing the blue down lower on the mini and the magenta higher.