Hey Jungle Painters,

you all have read Raffa's theory parts in the past weeks and this one in particular is interesting for this tip: Rays and Reflection. If you want to read more of them, check our massive tutorial section, specific area "Theory".

This week's tip is about 
as a miniature painter always keep your eyes open on strange light situation that happen everyday. Can you understand what is happening in the following photos? Both taken with just s second in time difference while Raffa was having a coffee at Roman's:



Write your guess in the comments and tomorrow we check to find the answer.
We will edit it in this post if we find the right one or give you the answer tomorrow ourselves.

The answer was yet quickly found by many:
 "Bounce light. And with a strong colour too."

The next theory part by Raffa will go even more into detail in this topic, stay tuned! 

Keep on happy painting!


Visual Studying - Learning to see and paint
Roman takes you on a journey on how to use your eyes to study the act of painting.

Yo Jungle Painters,

you might ask yourselves why the jungle of MV is a little quiet these days. It is because of all your entries to our actual running online contest, the BANANALICIOUS 2. Since last Friday there are many entries dropping in via mail per hour. Yes, per hour and your MV-Team is writing many mails to confirm them and sort the photos of your entries.

You still have time to enter the contest until the 22nd of April.
Remember you can still enter on this day.

Please be aware that your confirmation mail will maybe not directly arrive at yours in about minutes as we are also humans and have a life to live. You can be sure that they are answered as soon as possible.

Here is an overview of the entries so far:

129 overall ...
Fantasy Standard: 37
Fantasy Master: 18
Historical Standard: 10
Historical Master: 6
Diorama: 23
Sculpting: 12
Army Painting: 10
Special: Base: 12
Out of Competition: 1


Make ready for the final days and get your entries in!


Many thanks to the BANANALICIOUS SPONSORS:

As time goes by with a very unatural pace we already arrived in April and did not really recognize it.
It is time for Massive Voodoo to say thanks to our supporters in March,
who donated via their jungle donation.
 
08.03.2015 Pasadena, USA, 5,00 $  
13.03.2015 Pueblo, USA, 20,00 $ 
28.03.2015 Balwyn, Australia, 10,00 $ 

Thank you!

Good Morning Jungle Painters,

another painted bust from my table and yet another Roman from Roman.
For me Ancient Rome is pure fascination still and I am reading some books again recently (this time about the time of Attila). Well, I had to paint another Roman soldier bust with all that inspiration in me.

I did choose to paint one from Young Miniatures: the Roman Signifer.

Being able to see this bust painted by many talented painters I really got more inspired to paint mine up. I decided to go for a colour study myself and wanted to create a very athmospheric piece, rather to paint him just in the colours of the material. For me that means I want to transport all the typical colours into a setting where they get influanced by their surroundings. But Roman, a bust has no sorroundings? Well, right. This comes from your imagination if you want to do such a colour work.
For example that means that already from the start I do not only choose brown for the fur, but already paint my athmospheric color whereever I need it. Here is an early WIP I found:


Another WIP I found in my folder, some steps later:


After a while I got more and more into the athmosphere of the piece, also the character of the guy was found and my colourful journey turned out to look like this in the end:



This was really a joy to paint. I hope you like him?
Let me know what athmosphere you feel when you look at him?

Are you interested in articles about painting ancient Rome themed models?

The Aquila - Hero of Rome 41 A. D.
A process explanation of cold athmosphere, leather, skintone and more.

Pimping up an old gladiator paintjob! Human Face 2
This topic handles prominent spots during painting a busts face. 


Painting Marble
Raffa explains a beautiful way to paint beautiful marble.

Time is running fast and there are only 8 days left to enter our magnificant... well, that is the wrong word ... our bananalicious contest. The contest ends ends April 22th 2015 and you can still enter on the 22th.


Here is an overview of the entries so far:

67 overall ...

Fantasy Standard: 17
Fantasy Master: 12
Historical Standard: 4
Historical Master: 5
Diorama: 12
Sculpting: 6
Army Painting: 6
Special: Base: 5

So far we have so many Prizes via our Random Prize Pool that will be handed out via lottery to every participant that we definatly need YOU to take part in at least one category! Get it on, c'mon? We know you are painting something, so drop it in! Don't be lazy or shy! 

Get your entries in, tell your friends! 



Here is our last update on the random prize pool, now we come to an end and the magic number of prizes is 45 in the random prize pool.



Random Prize #44
Eureka! - a great hobby blog throws in mucho miniature candy in this big candy box!


Random Prize #45
Space adventuring is dangerous, but this guy is seriously looking forward to it. A cool bust from 2dreamers for you to win!



If you are not yet in with your entry, get it on!

Many thanks to the BANANALICIOUS SPONSORS: