Hey Jungle Painters,
today all of your Massive Voodoo Team wants to wish all of our readers, friends, family and everyone who celebrates Christmas holidays
Merry merry Christmas!
We will not post any traditional christmas songs here,
just one cool one
and a second one.
More photos done by Roman:
https://www.instagram.com/taleofthebananawhale/
Roman writing a little Christmas Kong Fu:
Enjoy the more silent days of the year with friends, family and loved ones.
Looking at the world nowadays this is what the world needs. More calm minds, freedom, love and peace. Easier said than done. The winter holidays, including the celebrations of Christmas is a long history and even I am not a religious person at all I learned that there is one rule/religion everyone should live by to have a better world: Spread happiness in your circle of people you can reach. They will spread happiness too and the small circles one day will be bigger. Do not spread anger, hate, greed or envy. It one day will all come back to you.
It is not only Christmas time you should live this.
You can do this every single day in your life. Be nice to your neighbour, friends, family, community, homeless people, unknown people - take time to help others or even offer help in any case. Smile. Make someone else happy with maybe a small gesture. Be honest. To yourself. To others. Make decisions that do not hurt you or others, if need be speak clearly, directly and honest to make the one sitting with you understand your points of view. Grief honestly if need be. Make sure to know your weakness to be able to help others with the person you are. Think yourself in other persons shoes, before you judge them. Be more self-confident in spreading your good.
I rember reading the following tale/message/meaning
by Mario somewhere over the year 2016 on facebook and it stunned me - it is out of a book, nobody really knows and we are even unsure if it is really about a samurai - I write it in my own interpretation, but I am pretty sure you get the meaning :
A samurai gets approached by his students...
They want to know more secrets of life from him and he offers them a lesson, he is asking:
"If someone gives you a gift and you do not accept it. Who does the gift belong too?"
The students got to think a little, because it can be unpolite to not accept a gift, but their answer is:
"If you do not accept the gift it will belong to the one who is delivering it. It is still his."
The Samurai answers:
"Right, and it is the same when someone approaches you with anger, hate, envy and all bad emotions. You can accept them and make them a part of you too or you do not accept them and they will stay with the person who delivers them."
Well, this really stunned me and helped me a lot to be a better person. Just wanted to tell this again here. Now not to be ultra pathetic in here we also want to give one of our readers a very special ...
Massive Voodoo Christmas gift
My workbench is usually covered with two cutting mattes.
One new and shiny and the other one a mess of creativity. It grew over the year 2016 and now it is time for a new one. This old one is full of memories of me, I used it to draw, paint, write notes, do teaching examples, dozen of moments of happy painting with happy accidents and did dirty work on it.
Some might think, that I am giving garbage as a present here, but do not get this wrong. For me this is something very personal and maybe someone will hang it to his wall or even use it himself. Maybe there are happy painting energies hidden in it and they will influance you. Who knows. To the right corner it will recieve a personal dedication to the person who will win it.
The person who wins this will also recieve the original drawing of MV's Christmas Gorilla, done by me:
How can you win this?
Write a comment below this post, whatever you like, about Christmas, about Gorilla's throwing around Christmas trees, Harambe, cats, miniatures, icecream or your most impressive moment in 2016. Whatever you like. You can only do a "hello" if you are shy. Only one comment per person.
We will make a raffle from everyone who commented until 28th of December and one lucky person will recieve this Christmas gift out of the jungle of Massive Voodoo. It will be a late Christmas gift as we will ship it in the new year. Shipping is on us of course.
Questions?
Comment ;)
Merry Christmas to you all!
Your MV-Team
today all of your Massive Voodoo Team wants to wish all of our readers, friends, family and everyone who celebrates Christmas holidays
Merry merry Christmas!
We will not post any traditional christmas songs here,
just one cool one
and a second one.
More photos done by Roman:
https://www.instagram.com/taleofthebananawhale/
Roman writing a little Christmas Kong Fu:
Enjoy the more silent days of the year with friends, family and loved ones.
Looking at the world nowadays this is what the world needs. More calm minds, freedom, love and peace. Easier said than done. The winter holidays, including the celebrations of Christmas is a long history and even I am not a religious person at all I learned that there is one rule/religion everyone should live by to have a better world: Spread happiness in your circle of people you can reach. They will spread happiness too and the small circles one day will be bigger. Do not spread anger, hate, greed or envy. It one day will all come back to you.
It is not only Christmas time you should live this.
You can do this every single day in your life. Be nice to your neighbour, friends, family, community, homeless people, unknown people - take time to help others or even offer help in any case. Smile. Make someone else happy with maybe a small gesture. Be honest. To yourself. To others. Make decisions that do not hurt you or others, if need be speak clearly, directly and honest to make the one sitting with you understand your points of view. Grief honestly if need be. Make sure to know your weakness to be able to help others with the person you are. Think yourself in other persons shoes, before you judge them. Be more self-confident in spreading your good.
I rember reading the following tale/message/meaning
by Mario somewhere over the year 2016 on facebook and it stunned me - it is out of a book, nobody really knows and we are even unsure if it is really about a samurai - I write it in my own interpretation, but I am pretty sure you get the meaning :
A samurai gets approached by his students...
They want to know more secrets of life from him and he offers them a lesson, he is asking:
"If someone gives you a gift and you do not accept it. Who does the gift belong too?"
The students got to think a little, because it can be unpolite to not accept a gift, but their answer is:
"If you do not accept the gift it will belong to the one who is delivering it. It is still his."
The Samurai answers:
"Right, and it is the same when someone approaches you with anger, hate, envy and all bad emotions. You can accept them and make them a part of you too or you do not accept them and they will stay with the person who delivers them."
Well, this really stunned me and helped me a lot to be a better person. Just wanted to tell this again here. Now not to be ultra pathetic in here we also want to give one of our readers a very special ...
Massive Voodoo Christmas gift
My workbench is usually covered with two cutting mattes.
One new and shiny and the other one a mess of creativity. It grew over the year 2016 and now it is time for a new one. This old one is full of memories of me, I used it to draw, paint, write notes, do teaching examples, dozen of moments of happy painting with happy accidents and did dirty work on it.
Some might think, that I am giving garbage as a present here, but do not get this wrong. For me this is something very personal and maybe someone will hang it to his wall or even use it himself. Maybe there are happy painting energies hidden in it and they will influance you. Who knows. To the right corner it will recieve a personal dedication to the person who will win it.
The person who wins this will also recieve the original drawing of MV's Christmas Gorilla, done by me:
How can you win this?
Write a comment below this post, whatever you like, about Christmas, about Gorilla's throwing around Christmas trees, Harambe, cats, miniatures, icecream or your most impressive moment in 2016. Whatever you like. You can only do a "hello" if you are shy. Only one comment per person.
We will make a raffle from everyone who commented until 28th of December and one lucky person will recieve this Christmas gift out of the jungle of Massive Voodoo. It will be a late Christmas gift as we will ship it in the new year. Shipping is on us of course.
Questions?
Comment ;)
Merry Christmas to you all!
Your MV-Team
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Massive Voodoo has been a huge part of my journey, arguably the biggest piece. 2016 has been no different. You guys continue to inspire. Thank you for 2016 and look forward to 2017.
Also, maybe an article about miniature ice cream cats would be good? ☺
Good luck everyone
Roman, you continue to be light in this sometimes dark world. Thank you for having the courage to share your inspiring art with us, and the kindness to share your knowledge with us. May the blessings you have given to all of us be returned to you one hundred-fold!!!
Merry Christmas Roman and the entire MV crew. I look forward to supporting you to support and inspire the rest of us in 2017.
I dont really know where to start when talking about MassiveVoodoo as an inspiration, especially
after this year and the one before that where my creative self was full of doubt and with looming
dark clouds hanging over it and myself as a person in general. Going through a divorce and loss of
my dear mother during 2015/16 had left me utterly empty and bitter.
Your workshop here in Sweden (as I have stated before) really changed me and my view of the hobby
and myself together with a long long dig into what is called ones soul and mind. Afterwards I
realised how important it is to look inwards when it comes to the painting, stop being torn between
what ones own expectations and others is worth, I can after that weekend look at one of my pieces
and say "Hey, I really like this" which have lifted my skill much much more than anything else because
it let in the positivity and sunlight which I then wanted to share with others.
So I thank you MassiveVoodoo, Roman especially but also Peter for giving that pieace of happiness back to a
creative soul.
It's quite disturbing how I can hear "dosch dosch dosch" clearly when I get stuck in painting, which Roman repeated
a lot during that weekend while showing techniques. It reminds me of "keep moving, don't overthink".
Thanks for a great 2016 and even for 2017 straight upfront, since I know it will deliver just like
all other years. :)
Happy holidays!
Happy Christmas holidays to everyone!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/116475878/christmas.jpg
This is a beautiful painting mat. It tells a Story of Work, creativity, Fun and leaning. One could put a frame around it and hang it in a wall. Thank you all at MV to hang around in my mobile devices over the year to inspire and help moving forward. Even though we never met in RL (yet), you are a Part of my Life and I am grateful for that - Not only on Christmas. :)
Have a calm Holiday season and a splendid NRW years eve!
Thanks for your honest and uplifting words Roman. Thank you Guys for your awesome work for inspiring us and just being cool!
Best regards Josua
Diana ... ts ts ts ;) :D
And a very happy christmas to you too! What a year it's been, huh? :) I'm looking forward to seeing more of your inspirational work in the new year! And to see you all again, when the shows roll around again in 2017.
Merry christmas, and a happy new year to you all! :)
Merry Christmas to you all!!!.
As Roman told in the Madrid course, "be a Jedi", help each other, taught others what you know and don't hide yourself in a black hood.
(It's similar to the ninja story but I'm more Star Wars like, and I'm very hyped with Rogue One, sorry...)
Easy one for me! Visiting the MV studio, meeting Raffa and painting in that space. Best moment of 2016!
Merry Christmas! Thanks for an inspiring year and looking forward to a hopefully creative and just as inspiring next year!
So glad I met you and Raffa this year. I actually met a lot of great people this 2016, so I am very great full for it! Merry Christmas, and a happy new year!!!
So glad I met you and Raffa this year. I actually met a lot of great people this 2016, so I am very great full for it! Merry Christmas, and a happy new year!!!
The best thing about 2016 is that despite my master thesis I still found time to paint.
Thank you for the Christmas message, Roman -- it is truly in the spirit. I especially appreciate your sharing the tale of the samurai -- that is a good one for me to remember (and re-share!). You have already given your Christmas gifts -- to *all* your readers! Have a wonderful holiday.
We need more people like you guys :) I hope 2017 will be a happier year for everyone. Personally 2016 has been great hobby wise, but I really hope we will see changes in the direction the world is going. If we all focus some of the positive energy we get from our great hobby into influencing the people we meet in a positive direction, I am sure we can accomplish something good.
I look forward to meeting you in the new year!
Thank you for the great classes I was able to attend this year. Enjoy Xmas :-)
Merry Christmas and a happy new year ;) You guys bring your best to everything you do an inspire creativity and joy in those around you. Keep it up!
Merry Massive Voodistmas and Happy new year of the Gorilla! May the creativity and the kindness be with us during 2017. And never stop being the best community ever, always sharing and improving as one united army!
Merry Xmas and keep on sharing your Happy Painting Philosophy !
I love the teacher/student lesson here! Be awesome to one another! Give forgiveness not because someone always deserves it, but because you deserve peace!
I'm not even sure where to begin. I must say that 2016 has been a very rough year from me painting wise. I got very few projects done, but I am determined to improve in 2017. It's been a fairly rough year! My wife was diagnosed with cancer this year, and the past several months have seen multiple trips back and forth to the hospital, reduced income, missed nights and days with our two children, and generally not a lot of fun. However, I write this not for sympathy, but as an example of God's enduring grace. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and ask that you keep us in your prayers. God bless!
P.S.: Thanks for all of the great info over the years! I wouldn't have the skill I have without MV goodness!
I'd like to say how much I've enjoyed following MV over the years. Your teams does a lot for the community and you deserve all the bananas under your tree.
Keep those brushes going and see you in 2017!
Merry Christmas and an happy painting new year 2017
Great sentiments and a great gift idea! It's been a pleasure learning from the MV crew both online and at the NOVA Open, thanks for everything you do, and I wish you a happy and safe holidays!
Merry Christmas guys! Can't wait to see what you have to show us in 2017
Merry bananas! I am happy 'couse in 2k16 I meet you guys and was proud to be teached by Roman himself during my visit to Germany <3 <3 <3
With warm greetings from Prague,CZ - Evgeny. Have a nice jungle time!
Merry Christmas to all the Jungle!
And a happy and creative new year. 😊
Thank you for the joy, reading these lines. Everything has been said. Thank you for who you are. I hope there are a lot more people like you. :)
All the best for you all! Enjoy the silent time.
So much messy Creativity on this ....the Force of Painting is very strong in this piece. Never mind how much it can give to a padavan like me to increase everything Art is about
merry XMas to you Roman :)
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It is like a piece of your spirit! Looking at your painting mat i would get all sorts of funny mental pictures of a gorilla with a paint brush making a mess (a beautiful, colourful mess) Merry Christmas keep on making cool art :)
Hello! :P
Merry X-Mas to all of you!
Merry monkey christmas to all of you !
Hope 2017 will be the year of many awesome miniatures and dioramas
Greetings from Switzerland
Merry Christmas to everyone, and wishing us all good progress in 2017!
I would love some Banana inspiration and your work mat will be the closest thing to meeting any of the jungle crew I will get until you do a tour down under . Looking forward to what you lads do in 2017 . Cheers ..Matt
Merry Christmas to the Jungle!
I totally like your philosophy statement. Sums up to what I'm living.
Story to share: Some days past I sold some stuff. I told the guy who bought it he could show up any time, because I was ill and at home. When he showed up, we had some nice chatting. And after the deal before he left he put some teabags in my hand to get beter soon.
This was such a small gesture but it lightend up the rest of my day. :D
Merry Christmas to all of you :)
What I love about Christmas is seeing my whole family and spending time together :)
My year 2016 was pretty good. I finished my education, moved away from my annoying flat mates and participated succesfully in Duke of Bavaria and SMC :)
Wish you all the best for 2017...
Love that samurai "saying"
Guess a massive voodoo Christmas tree will be the palm tree with coconuts and abes hanging in it..
merry Christmas and a happy new year. See you next year back in Copenhagen.
Love the idea of "inspirational" giveaway.
Regular visits to MV refresh my creative juices and let me get back to the painting that much easier.
Thanks for being here for us!