News: Seminar Update - second half of 2019

by Roman aka jar

Hey Jungle Painters,

it is about time to announce the second half of 2019 Massive Voodoo Workshops.


  • You always wanted to know why so many miniature painters enjoy these hands on seminars?
  • You want to do a big step in your miniature painting skills with me on your side and helping and guiding you with my expertise in painting and teaching?
  • You want to know why so many people tell this was a great experience?
  • Why people travel for this unique experience or even repeat a seminar for several times?

Well, this is your chance
to be part in one or several of my famous hands on seminars. I am looking forward to see you there!
Grab your seat while they are available!


You can find all information about the seminars in the Roadmap 2019.
The roadmap itself will be updated regularly. Please sign in via email, see below.
August will be completly blocked as the studio will be moving in August/early September.

 
Second half of 2019___________________________________


Augsburg, Germany
// 13th September - 15th September 2019  3 day Beginner Workshop
english language - 0 /30 - Information PDF

Augsburg, Germany
// 28th September 2019  1 day Speedpainting Masterclass
german language - 0/16 - Information PDF


Augsburg, Germany
 // 29th September 2019 1 day OSL Masterclass
german language - 0/16 - Information PDF

Augsburg, Germany
 // 25th October - 27th October 2019  3 day Beginner Workshop
german language - 0 /30 - Information PDF

Augsburg, Germany
 // 9th November- 10th November 2019  2 day Skintone & Faces Masterclass *new*
german language - 0 /16 - Information PDF (coming soon!)

Augsburg, Germany
// 22th November- 24th November 2019  3 day Basing Class
german language - 0 /16 - Information PDF

Augsburg, Germany
 // 7th December 2019  1 day Speedpainting Masterclass
german language - 0/16 - Information PDF

Augsburg, Germany
 // 13th December - 14th December 2019  1,5 days Material Masterclass
german language - 0/16 - Information PDF

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If you have any questions or want to sign up please send a mail to Roman:
jarhead---at---massivevoodoo---dot---com



See further seminar describtions in the roadmap 2019 or in my curriculum or via the PDFs.
Thank you!

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A brand new two day seminar is also happening for the first time:


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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.


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See you for happy painting! 

MV Zombie Community Project - Update #09

by Roman aka jar

Hi Jungle, 

it has been a while since the last update and some of you might believe this project is dead.
Well, it is undead :D


Sorry for the long break in updates for you. 
Even the project was not mentioned here on the blog, I did work on it in the background, but to be honest, more like a side-project. Not my main focus. In the meantime I am kind of working alone on the project, Bene seems out of it as he started a new job in a new town and we do not see very often. Left alone, I was firstly scared by so many zombies :D

In the meantime more Zombies from you all arrived and I really wanted to find time to write a proper update for you. I did not find it until now...

Raising the dead once more in Update #09 on this project afterMV Zombie Community Project - Update #08

If you don´t know what we are talking about you are welcome to check the link below, where the idea behind the project is explained. You will also find there a link to all the updates and names on people who are supporting us in this:


 

Update #01
Update #02
Update #03
Update #04
Update #05

Update #06 

Update #07
Update #08
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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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Update #09
I had to glue quite the number of Zombies to the group bases for collection and overview ....
Some came out from my last Speedpainting Seminar as a donation from my students.
 Many thanks for this!

Hansrainer organised some of his painting pals to get a good number of Zombies in the end of 2018. Many thanks to you all, unfortanetely I lost track on the name list here. My fault, but my brain can not keep track. Sorry! I am only human!





Also Donal dropped a bunch of really unique Zombies to the crowd while coming over from Ireland to be part of the last basing class (still missing the big review) ...

 
 Thanks to Christian, who brought over a Zombie too for his Speedpainting Private Coaching.
 I do not have a photo of it. Great! :D

Well, most of the Zombies are glued to the big boards now.
Only Donal's are missing.

It really looks impressive.
Do not think the project will die. It is just a busy year with a studio move ahead. Somehow I know that I will start the base in the new studio. This is something that will flurish from the new start.
Stay tuned! And thanks for all of your help on this one!




During my teachings and coachings I was also able to paint up to the three or four Zombies on my own boards.



If you think I missed out on your Zombies or your name please inform me in the comments, so I can catch up from the past.





Thanks for the support to:

Luis, Spain
Pigment Pirates Gang, Germany
Ole, Sweden
The whole group of students of Roman's Speedpainting Masterclass
Erik, Germany
Jannick, Germany
Matthias, Austria
Sergio, Spain
Chris, Germany
David, Germany
Sebastian, Germany
Martin, Germany
Andy, Germany
Kevin, USA
David, Germany
Nicolas, France
Yannick, France
Désiré, France
Nassim, France
Dimitri, France
Sebastian, Germany
Christoph, (where are you from?)
Fabian, Germany
Bryan, USA
Josua, Switzerland
Lucky, Germany
Mads, Denmark
Matty, UK
Martin, Germany
Klaus, Germany
Sebastian, Germany
Anthony, USA
David, Germany
David, Australia
Mathias, Austria
Frederik, France
Raffaele, Germany
Donal, Ireland
Christian, Germany
Students of this Speedpainting Seminar
Hansrainer and friends, Germany
*place your name here*

Review: Beginner Workshop in Augsburg, Germany

by Roman aka jar

Hi Jungle, 

where does the zenital light come from?
Right, from straight on top of the miniature!

:D


"Vielen Dank nochmal für den hervorragenden Kurs!!!


Der Kurs ist m.E. nach eine wirkliche Bereicherung für alle Miniaturen-Maler, die sich auf diesem Gebiet weiter entwickeln möchten. Roman bringt alle Teilnehmer, egal mit wieviel Erfahrung, mit hervorragender Didaktik und Methodik auf das nächste Level. Man sieht über den Tellerrand hinaus und wird neugierig darauf neue Themenkomplexe und Techniken selber zu entdecken.
Besonders eindrucksvoll ist es zu sehen, wie gerade wenige erfahrene Teilnehmer binnen kürzester Zeit rasante Fortschritte machen. Daher kann ich diesen Kurs besonders allen Einsteigern dieses Hobbys wärmstens ans Herz legen.
Vielen Dank für das äußerst kurzweilige Wochenende voller wertvoller Erfahrungen!"

- Flo

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Some days ago
in my hometown, Augsburg I was able to teach again.
This time my well known beginner seminar that gives insight into my way while painting. The class was in german language. Aimed at all skill levels and I was really happy to welcome 27 students from Germany and Austria.

With only five repeaters of the class it was a seminar packed with new people, which makes me a very happy teacher. It shows that there is still interest in seminars for students who are interested in growing on their own journey. Of course I do offer advanced topic classes and masterclasses, but in the end it comes down to this workshop to see new faces interested in telling stories with their figures and starting their journey to display painting.



The theory parts contain:

- Learn to see your world with different eyes
- Introduction into basing composition
- Learn how to feel harmony in different aspects
- Important contrasts for figure painting
- Explanation about how to paint a light situation on your figure
- Understand colour theory and learn how to use it properly
- Learn about different materials, their unique properties and learn to paint them
- Learn to lose fear of doing something wrong
- much more!



Our classrooom for the weekend in Augsburg!






PPPFFTTT! PPPFFFTT!



"Vielen Dank für den tollen Kurs und das inspirierende Wochenende!" - Bastian


When it comes to basing I got to thank the supporters of this class who made the class wonderful due their help in sponsoring some of their products, beside my own crazy material collection:







This review is quite mixed up when it comes to photos. It will not follow the structure of the class.
Call it a freestyle review  :)


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Some projects before painting.
Primed black and white ...



"Ich wollte einfach kurz Danke sagen für ein intensives aber absolut großartiges Wochenende! 


Ich bin noch immer etwas geflasht von den ganzen Eindrücken und laufe seit zwei Tagen durch die Gegend und erfreue meine Umgebung und insbesondere meine Freundin mit wirrem Gerede von zenitalem Licht, Pferdehintern und cremigen Farben. ;)



Gedanklich so voll beladen mit Theorie, neuen Perspektiven und Techniken fürs Malen wird es sicher eine Zeit dauern das Gelernte in Ruhe sacken zu lassen und am Maltisch auszuprobieren. Was das Wochenende für mich aber zu einem besonderen Erlebnis gemacht hat, war die Art und Weise mit der du den Kurs geleitet hast. Vielen Dank für deine ansteckende Freude am Malen, die Fähigkeit andere zu begeistern und die Geduld mit denen du uns die Inhalte verständlich, humorvoll und auf unglaublich sympathische Art vermittelt hast! 



Mir hat das Wochenende so viel Freude bereitet, dass ich gerne erneut einen Workshop von dir besuchen würde." 

- Christian




"Ich muss sagen ich hatte durch die Erzählungen von einem Freund ja schon eine hohe Erwartung an den Kurs - dennoch wurden die bei Weitem übertroffen! Gerade der durchdachte Ablauf und dass alles aufeinander aufbaut hat mir sehr sehr gut gefallen und mich gedanklich als auch technisch unglaublich weiter gebracht! Ich bin oft mit den Hunden in der Natur unterwegs aber so intensiv wie die letzten Tage habe ich noch nie meine Umgebung betrachtet. Da sieht man überall nur noch Farbverläufe, Schattierungsfarben, Strukturen usw. :-D Nochmals vielen vielen Dank für das tolle Wochenende, wir sehen uns sicher in einem deiner Kurse wieder!" - Stephan



"My start…
When I subscribed to MSV VDO beginners workshop,  I had nearly no expectations.  I like the evenings of playing with good friends some games, I just got never caught up in their passion of painting the figuers with which we were playing (and also not completely alike in the games themselves, because sadly I’m some kind of a bad loser :D)
I think, two or three years ago, my friend Olly participated in the beginners workshop with Roman the first time. I really admired the creative bases he build from now on and how he used different elements of nature (stones, sand, little pieces of wood…) to create them. As queen of self-critizism I never found the starting point for trying it myself. So, when Olly told me, he would like to repeat the workshop, I thougt: „Hey, I heard so many great things about that Roman-guy, perhaps that’s my opportunity to jump in and learn from the very beginning how to do it right. Why not?“ 

And I have to admit, I really made here the right decision! (Although I got a little bit nervous, when I realized, I was indeed the only person with absolute no experiences, because I didn’t want to hold the others back or something.) (But) I was part of a great group of very kind and encouraging people and I learned from Roman a lot about colours, contrasts, techniques of painting und base-building, but most important – thanks to his inspiring teaching – I learned to seperate conceptually the art of painting minis from the nessesity to use them for playing. I really love the idea of telling a story with them.
And, because of Romans constandly repeating, that we’re on our own journey, I’m hopeful of overpowering my perfectionism (or at least I will try :D) and daring to start a (new) project.  

So, thank you very much for giving an insight of your knowledge and skills and most of all for your inspiration and confidence  J
All the best"

-Petra



Painting explanations starts :)














These photos above are in no way in a particular order :D
Thanks to Oliver and Bastian for sending over some more photos for the review.
Unfortanetely I did not take many photos on my own during the class as I was, well, busy with teaching :)



In depth explanations happened, but not much photos from it :)


Well, we all know it is about the photos of the projects and we got many of them.

Thanks to the gang of students of this workshop ...
thanks to my hand for messing up this group photo :D



The results of my students during the weekend ... I am always amazed of their uniqueness:






No hand this time, but wrong angle :D




Sorry for the blurry one over here! Ahhh!

Great, another one! Sorryio!

























Well, 
again I want to thank everyone attenting to this seminar.
It really made my heart jump with joy to hear your beautiful feedback and see you all learned a big deal of my way of happy painting and what it means for me and for you from now on. Like I said, everyone of us is on his own journey on growth and collecting experience. I am really proud of you!

Thank you all for your support in my teachings and art!

Keep on happy painting!

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In the middle of May I will announce seminars for the second half of 2019!  Stay tuned via your jungle blog!