Another Workshop Review - this time from the early summer of this year in Mönchengladbach/Germany...
____________________________just quoting myself from the Avatars of War Forums:
We had another Beginner's Painting Class over a complete weekend with, again - great support by AoW, thank you very much, Felix (again) and i have promised to do another review on this one. We found together in Möchengladbach, next to Cologne in Germany. 24 people including me have made this weekend unforgetable. We really had a lot of fun, i had been braindead afterwards and ... ok i start from the beginning...
No one knew what we gonna paint up as the workshop model, they only knew that it will be from AoW, but no one did knew the model before the class. I have planned this because i don't want the peole think too much before the class about what they should do or don't... you know sometimes less thinking is good for working with colours - Thank you very much again for yur Big Support for the Workshop Felix, everyone went crazy as they heard about we are going to paint the Big fat ugly Goblin King ...
Also i want to say Big Thank you to Eve and Mark who mostly did the organisation before and during the Workshop.
We had an old classroom where the Workshop was placed in... I now start with some pictures and explanations about the workshop. As before i had the plan to bring the participants with a travel to art history to knowledge about colour theory and tried to combine this knowledge with the painting on miniatures as this is still a beginners workshop, everyone, equal of his experience was welcome. Thanks to everyone who allowed to use his pictures as i didn't find the time to take my own...
Here we go - this has been our classroom, that bold head in the front belongs to me:
I did a lot of blabla about Art History, had some problems with the beamer and the presentation in the start but with such a great group of hobby fanatics we solved mostly every problem:
I was talking about different stuff, here in front of some presentation stuff about how to use light on miniatures while painting and what light does to colours, etc. etc. ...
We had a little presentation table set, where everyone was invited to place some of his painted models:
Big and small bases - here is a big one:
Little breaks we're planned and always went to funny talk about the hobby and the workshop, some couldn't get away from their models even in the breaks:
The first night came and some did use the time for sleep. We had the oppourtunity to stay at the room and sleep there, for those who came from far and didn't want to pay a hotel room. The night looked like this:
Here are some results:
After everyone was ready and we did another part of boring theory, we started over to thepractice parts, where i have explained step by step things about techniques, light, colours, etc.. I had split the big group in 2 small groups for these parts...
Painting in its Progress and all its glory:
We did take the chance of the moment to take a group shot from all the goblins from the Weekend in the end, the first one way too bright:
Not really sharp:
And tall the other Brushqueens and -kings together- the complete workshop group:
Again a big thank you to Avatars of War by helping us to had a great weekend with some great models... and in the end lots of fun while learning, learning, learning ... and learning... and painting while learning... and learning while painting... and painting while painting ... and stuff.
I keep an eye out, need to search some finished goblin kings from the participants, may take some more time, but i knwo some of them already. I'll let you know on the same place here...
Happy Painting to you all around and also happy sculpting if you do so ...
Regards
Roman
I keep an eye out, need to search some finished goblin kings from the participants, may take some more time, but i knwo some of them already. I'll let you know on the same place here...
Happy Painting to you all around and also happy sculpting if you do so ...
Regards
Roman
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Hi,
Nice to see you reviewing a workshop, where I participated. My Goblin King was finished there, but if you want to, I'll try to get better pics of him (it's the one wiht the "white tree").
As a participator, I can say that it was such an inspiring weekend for me and next year I will hopefully visit another workshop, led by you.
(Southern Hessen would be great, but If it is Germany, it's reachable ;) )
Regards,
Lukas
Yes what a heavy,dirty and painfull weekend!*Joke*
It was great! i learn much things...only the think with the blood....
You want another WS in MG just say Ready and Yve and I make it true!,->
So jealous just reading this and looking at pictures! This is definitely something I will be looking out for and hoping one day is put on closer to my home of Seattle, Washington. Please tell me you have a close relative living in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. and you are planning on a visit soon :) A very lucky group of painters who got to attend this workshop!
@Lukas
Thank you very much for your nice words - really glad you like that weekend so much, also it was my pleasure ... for the further workshop plannings i just can say that i don't know what the future brings but in the end i guess there will be some more in Germany, so this sounds fine... thank you again for your comment again, really made me very happy!
@YakovarGhyyak
Aight... that it was! Thanks a lot again to you both and i am looking forward to maybe make another workshop somewhere in the future in MG again...
@Nick
Uhh... now that is a hell of a road to there, haha. I don't think this is somehow reachable for a little, poor artistic thinking guy like me... there comes to my mind that i have been envolved in a student exchange when i was young for a couple of weeks in Toledo/Ohio, where i found some of the greatest persons i have ever meet in my exchange family... this could be a reason to power up the old batteries of saying finally "Hello again!" and "Sorry, that i have not been able to write so often!"... uhm, dreaming and just kidding... but you never know what the future brings... Thanks for your intrest Nick, sure it would be my pleasure but myself and i wouldn't believe in just thinking about spreading the word of Happy Painting this far, haha! Maybe... nah, i just don't know...
Thanks for taking your time reading here!