Hey jungle painters,

it is about time: Time for the long awaited restart for us with workshops and seminars. After all these pandemic months we are very happy to announce seminars again and looking forward to welcome you for your personal learning experience.

All of the seminars in 2021 will be held in Augsburg, Germany.
in 2021 Roman will not travel to teach seminars

Roman's teaching curriculum/all workshops explained:
https://www.romanlappat.com/curriculum



This roadmap is always under construction.
Every Seminar has an informational PDF to it to inform you about its content. Everything you need to know for enrollment. As soon as you are enrolled further communications will happen via email on the specific seminar.
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Reviews on Seminars
- get to know what is coming at you:

Beginner Workshops
Advanced Workshops
Special Seminars (OSL, Basing, Speedpainting, Material, etc.)

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FAQ
Important Covid-19 Information:
All workshops will use a hygene concept at place (regular ventilation of rooms, masks, hand disenfection, etc.). Please bring your FFP-2 mask. At your place you do not have to wear it. Your seminar instructor is fully vacczined already. Please make sure that you are fully vacczined, bring confirmation (vaccination certificate) or bring a negative test with you for the start of the seminar. If, by chance, the seminar has to be cancelled due Covid-19 goverment restrictions you will either recieve a voucher or your full money back for these workshops. Unfortanetely students who already own a voucher from postponed seminars of 2020 do not have the possibility for money returns.

1. How do I sign in?
Read the PDF linked to the workshop you want to take part in. Write an email to jarhead(at)massivevoodoo(dot)com, Roman will put you on the list of the workshop and will keep you informed abbout everything. Roman will confirm your email and sign up as soon as possible.

2. When do I have to pay for the participation?
Roman sends you the payment information usually 2-3 months prior to the start of the workshop with a final payment date about one month prior to the workshop.

3. What if, due Covid-19 official restrictions, the workshop can not happen or I can not take part due personal Covid-19 issues?
All situations connected with Covid-19 development and issues have to following plans, either:
- You can get your full money back
- You can have a voucher for the workshop you signed in and take another one later
- Students who already got a voucher from 2020's cancelled workshops can, unfortanetely are not able to get the refund

To be continued ....


 
Roadmap 2021 overview   
 Red are upcoming seminars, green are the ones in the past.
Check for the reviews on the green ones.
You can find so far enrolled student numbers behind the seminars.
All seminars in Augsburg will take place as soon as we got up to ten students!



Second half of 2021____________________


Review!

Augsburg, Germany - DONE!
// 19th September 2021 1 day Object Source Light Masterclass (OSL)
german language - 7/15 Waiting List: 0 - Information PDF
Review!

Augsburg, Germany
// 1st October - 3rd October 2021 3 day Beginner Workshop
german language - 20/24 Waiting List: 0 - Information PDF
Review coming soon!

Augsburg, Germany
// 19th November - 21st November 2021  3 day Beginner Workshop
german language - 24/24 Waiting List: 0 - Information PDF

Augsburg, Germany
// 3rd December - 5th December 2021  3 day Advanced Workshop
german language - 15/16 Waiting List: 0 - Information PDF

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Jar's Beginner Painting Class
Instructor: Roman Lappat
This MV class gives you insight into Roman's way of painting and basing, his thoughts, the background of his inspiration and a lot of fun and happy painting. This class aims at beginners and advanced painters, but also pros are welcome. More Information on MV's Jar's Beginners class?

Jar's Advanced Painting Class
Instructor: Roman Lappat
The follow up class to Roman's famous MV's Jar's Beginners Class. You want to go deeper? Here is the place to learn. Main topic: Atmosphere! Intense study on technique, light/shadow, skintones, the color black, the color white and much more! Information?

Jar's Basing Class
Instructor: Roman Lappat
In this MV class Roman takes you deeper into basing. No gaming bases. What makes a good display base? Learn more about composition rules you can put to use while basing, learn different focused material aspects on the subject: "After the postapocalypse, nature returns". More information ...


Jar's Skintone & Faces Masterclass
Instructor: Roman Lappat
In this two day MV masterclass Roman takes you deeper into understanding the wide variety on painting skintone and faces. After these two days you will never dislike your results in this topic as Roman shows you the magic that is behind a natural and convincing skintone. More Information!

Hey all,

welcome to page 7 of my project diary. If you're wondering what this is, please check the announcement post, in which I explain the motivation and general goals of the diary. At the bottom of that post, you will find a link to all parts of this series (constantly updated as soon as new articles are published).

Today focuses on the sea raider's skirt. According to the images, at least some of the sea peoples wore skirts or kilts that were ornated or sawn with multiple panels. While to my knowledge no information on the color of the panels or the lines connecting them has been passed down the three millenia since the sea peoples raided the Mediterranean, I liked those artist renderings that showed the panels in colorful red and blue, divided by lines of white. So, that's where I started - which, of course, had some of my friends (?) jest that he reminded them of an armed pool attendant. Well...

Before I started working on the kilt, however, I did a little bit of darklining along the areas where the kilt and the skin touch. This is an important step, as it makes it easier for the eye to "make sense" of the miniature and its parts - which is particularly important the smaller the scale. Once that was taken care of, including a little touching-up where the darklining went over the lines, I finally started working on the kilt. This started on the basic mid-tone colors I had laid down earlier: VMC Flat Red, Prussian Blue, and Deck Tan as the foundation for the white dividing lines. The little tassles (which are actually documented in the historical sources!!!) also received the red basic color.

In the process of shading and highlighting I started working on the reds, adding VMC Hull Red for the shadows, and Carmine Red, Bright Orange and some Sunny Skintone for the highlights. Again, I went back and forth, shading, highlighting, cleaning up mid-tones as I went. Once the reds had some "depth" to them, I worked a little on the blues, adding a mix of VMC Old Rose and Ivory for the highlights and some of the Hull Red and finally some black for the shadows. Then, I did some more darklining, and went back to the skin, adding a few glazes of Red over the whole mini to give the skin a little bit more "life". I also darkened our sea raider's feet with a blackish-brown glaze - a friend (who himself is not a mini-painter) suggested that to me noting that a guy running around barefoot all the time will have dirty feet. I always like such kind of detail and greatly appreciate my friends' interest in my hobby-stuff - even though it will most likely not be visible once the basework with all that water-effect is done.

Then it was time for the white parts of the skirt. As noted, I originally started with VMC Deck Tan as a basetone, but I realized that was too "clean" and neutral, and a little too bright for my taste. So I went back to my favorite basecolor for white: VMC Stone Grey, which is a nice light-grey tone with a greenish tint. I first laid down the new basecolor - carefully, so as not to cover too much of the red and blue panels - and then used Scale 75 Black Ink to differentiate the different parts of the white (especially the little piece of string that seems to work as some kind of belt). Then I quickly shaded and highlighted the whites, using some Neutral Grey for the shadows and some Ivory for the highlights. For the final highlights, I added a bit Schmincke Primacryl Titanium White into the Ivory.

And with that, I left the kilt alone for now. Thanks for reading. Next week, my project diary will center on the sea raider's fancy headdress!

As always, if you like what you read or have questions, why not drop me a line in the comments? See you in a bit!

Best, D.

Howdy Jungle!

Time for another private coaching review.
You can read more reviews of private coachings here (man, need to update this list).

Recently, Felix was visiting me for a two day session with the goal to learn my painting approach, technical improvements and many tricks on the brush.

me & Felix

We had such relaxed, cool learning days together and Felix made a big step forward. Thank you for being such a cool, calm and kind person. I really enjoyed these two days and I was very happy to make you happy with the coaching. Thank you for your trust in my teaching skills, Felix.

This is Felix result after a two day coaching about atmospheric painting, including focus on true metallic metals, skintone, fabrics and how to combine it all together in harmony:




This is what Felix said about the coaching:

Privat Coaching 3.6.21

"For a long time I thought about taking one of Romans Workshops and when
I nally decided to take one, the whole Covid pandemic crossed my plans.
So no more meetings in groups. After quite some time of lockdowns I nally
took the opportunity and went for a privat coaching.

When I visited Roman in June, I was very excited to learn how to paint
everything I could imagine and I was wondering if I would learn how I should
place my brush strokes precisely to reach those goals.

But this was not entirely the case. He answered all my questions about
regarding technique and what so ever, but that was not the focus of this
coaching. And retrospective I am pretty happy about that. If someone would
have asked me one week later what i had learned i would probably have told
them about the ideas of volumes and materials and how to handle them. All
this is entirely true and i learned a lot about these topics, but now, several
weeks after the coaching, this would not do it justice. I feel like i learned a
new approach to painting that opened my mind and helped me break out of
my painting habits I thought were necessary and mandatory.

Of course I learned Romans approach of painting minis, colorchoices and how
to establish a desired atmosphere for my projects, but the most valuable
lessons I learned from the two days with Roman are studying nature and
real world objects for painting specic things, rather than following strict
recipes and tutorials, and having a more free approach to painting, colors,
and tools/ways to achieve what I want to do."

                                                                                         - Felix

 

of course we went through tons of theory first and took mostly the second day to paint on the miniature itself.

My plan was to teach Felix to understand and read colors better to answer his own questions easily ...

Thank you for coming, Felix!

Keep on happy painting!
Yours,
Roman


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If you want to learn from me
in your very own private coaching session, do not hesitate to contact me for further details via
jarhead---at---massivevoodoo---dot---com

Write me an email and we can make it work!

If you are interested in a private coaching session or the actual news on workshops, please read:
http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2021/06/news-workshop-private-coaching.html

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You want to support Massive Voodoo? 
If you like to support or say thanks the monkeys of Massive Voodoo in what they do, please feel invited to drop a jungle donation in their direction via paypal or check their miniatures they got on sale here.
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Hi!

I really liked the pose of this guy and wanted to paint a Necron for a while now.
Really old, gritty and rusted. So I did. Hope you like him! Really enjoyed the weathering on this ancient machine warrior. What do you think?

This miniature is for sale!
Feel invited to check back with my PDF cataloge via
https://www.romanlappat.com/for-sale

This miniature is for sale!
Feel invited to check back with my PDF cataloge via
https://www.romanlappat.com/for-sale

Wow! I even found two Work in Progress photos :D
Sorry that I did not take more for explanations.

Basic dark metal color applied with pigments all around

More silver!

So far,
Keep on happy painting!
Roman



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You want to support Massive Voodoo? 
If you like to support or say thanks the monkeys of Massive Voodoo in what they do, please feel invited to drop a jungle donation in their direction via paypal or check their miniatures they got on sale here.
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 Hi Jungle,

here comes another finished miniature I did not show here yet:
From the depths of the Cursed City Game Box comes Emalda Braskow, painted to look awesome on the gaming table:

I decided to give her some bronze armour to fit my color scheme with the green base and environment. Using a reddish brown/green complemantary contrast here. Painting this Games Workshop Model was quite fun. Sadly she is only available once in that box. Could imagine crazy conversions on her.

This model is part of my NOVA Charitable Foundation this year and you can buy raffle tickets to make her yours and help a good cause, all raffle tickets donations will go to "Doctors without Borders". Even last year was not the best year when it comes to be a self-employeed artist I can not withstand my will to help this great cause. Check out NOCF Summer raffles:
https://www.novaopenfoundation.org/2021-summer-raffles

Ah well, she will be part of the fall raffles as I see now, BUT you can find three other miniatures painted by me for the summer raffles that go live today!

with a bunch of other fellow miniatures that saw my brush slap paint

Keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman

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You want to support Massive Voodoo? 
If you like to support or say thanks the monkeys of Massive Voodoo in what they do, please feel invited to drop a jungle donation in their direction via paypal or check their miniatures they got on sale here.
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my explanation piece ...

Thank you for your wish and trust to learn from me, Philip!
It has been a great day with you! Thank you for the good chats and your focus!
Happy Painting to you!

Roman

____________________________________________________________________________

If you want to learn from me
in your very own private coaching session, do not hesitate to contact me for further details via
jarhead---at---massivevoodoo---dot---com

Write me an email and we can make it work!

If you are interested in a private coaching session or the actual news on workshops, please read:
http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2021/06/news-workshop-private-coaching.html

_____________________________________________________________________
You want to support Massive Voodoo? 
If you like to support or say thanks the monkeys of Massive Voodoo in what they do, please feel invited to drop a jungle donation in their direction via paypal or check their miniatures they got on sale here.
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