Hands-on, paint provided. Topics: highlights and shading, males vs. females, details (eyes, lips, fingernails), skin in color schemes. Includes free Dark Sword mini and 8 page colour handout.
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Join award-winning painter Rhonda ‘Wren’ Bender in a hands-on study of painting skin. Topics include where to place highlights and shading, differences between male and female skin, detailing (eyes, lips, fingernails), and using skin tones as part of your overall colour scheme. Each attendee receives a free high-quality figure from Dark Sword Miniatures, and an 8-page colour hand-out. Paints and other supplies are provided, but you are encouraged to bring a good brush.
Learn to make battlefield terrain: craters, ruined building and barricades. Learn basic and advanced terrain making such as hills, woods, and water effects. Make terrain using the items provided.
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Need to make a battle torn city for you gaming? Come learn how to make ruined building, destroyed industrial components, toxic dumps, barbed wire, and other battlefield related items to enhance your gaming experience. Also learn basic and advanced terrain making such as hills, woods, and water effects. Try your hand at making battlefield terrain using the items provided, and take home a unique piece of terrain of your own creation.
Hands-on class: Learn techniques to get better blends, shift color, and smoother highlights on your miniatures. Miniatures from Dark Sword. Paints are RMS from Reaper Miniatures.
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This hands-on class will have you learning the advanced techniques of feathering and glazing to achieve smoother blends and highlights, and shift colors for fun effects or just to correct. I will supply all but the brush, so bring the pointiest brush you have, and follow me step-by-step as I show you on my miniature, and then guide you as you paint your miniature. No need for notes, I also provide a handout with instructions and tips for you to guide you at home. Miniatures provided by Dark Sword Miniatures. Paints are RMS from Reaper Miniatures. As time allows, please feel free to bring in your current projects for critique, advice, or practice. Contact me via email if you have any questions or concerns.
Hands on, paint provided. How to layer, glaze, feather and tween to create smooth transitions from one colour to another or from shade to highlight. Includes free Dark Sword mini and colour handout.
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One of the biggest challenges when painting miniature figures is achieving a smooth transition between two colours, or between the shade, mid-tone and highlight of an area. Join award-winning painter Rhonda ‘Wren’ Bender to learn various techniques and tricks that will help you achieve smoother colour transitions. Techniques include choosing and mixing colours, layering, feathering, glazing and tweening. Each attendee receives a free high-quality figure from Dark Sword Miniatures, and a colour hand-out. This is a hands-on class. Paints and other supplies are provided, but you are encouraged to bring a good brush.
What do you need besides a brush & paint? What tools are helpful for beginners? Participants will walk away with a handout, a high end kolinsky sable brush, a wet palette, primer, and matte medium.
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So you found a mini that you want to paint? What do you need besides a brush and paint? What would be helpful? We'll talk about tools for beginning painters including files, primer, brushes, palettes, paint, and varnish. Participants will walk away with a handout, a high end kolinsky sable brush, a wet palette, primer, and matte medium.
Smooth, seamless blends are the hallmarks of pros, and crucial to mastering many advanced techniques. Join Jen "Midnight Lurker" Kaufman and learn all the tricks to creating these silky blends.
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Intermediate, Hands-on: Say goodbye to chalky highlights forever! Smooth, seamless blends between high contrast colors are the hallmark of pros, and crucial to mastering many advanced techniques such as NMM and OSL. Join Jen "Midnight Lurker" Kaufman and learn all the tricks you need to create these silky blends and really make your minis POP! Topics covered will include feathering, glazing, the push/pull technique, the proper use of mediums and paint consistencies. All miniatures and paints will be provided. Students are strongly encouraged to bring examples of their recent work and their favorite paint brushes, but student sables will be available upon request.
On your mark, get set, PAINT! You get 45 minutes to paint a mini as you race the clock and compete against your neighbors. Everyone gets the same Privateer Press mini, Formula P3 Paints, and brushes.
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On your mark, get set, PAINT! You get 45 minutes to paint a mini masterpiece as you race the clock and compete against your neighbors. Everyone gets the same Privateer Press miniature, Formula P3 Paints, and brushes. You even get to keep your painted miniature masterpiece. Each session’s winners come back to compete in the Championship Round on Sunday to determine our “Epic Hardcore Painter”! So come paint like you’ve got a pair…of brushes!
Learn to paint faces and skin that complement your mini with teacher Zach Lanier. We will discuss techniques for eyes and a nice smooth skin, color variations and details that add character and life.
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Learn to paint faces and skin that complement your mini with PP Grandmaster and multi Golden Demon and Gen Con winner Zach Lanier. We will discuss different techniques for painting eyes and how to get a nice smooth basecoat for your skin. We will also talk about using color and final details to add interest and life.