Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Don't panic, stay inside, do your backlog of minis

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No pledges? I’ll get onto that in a min…

1. all fine here – the wife and I are avoiding people wherever possible!

2. just about scraping by but work has dried up really quickly (I’m currently working with a company supporting the tourist industry so us freelancers were the first to be asked to “self-isolate”). I *can* work from home – it’s just the work has dried up!

3. Laser Squad. I’ve not seen a decent one yet, so am working on one myself. Stay tuned….

 

Before everything kicked off, I informed my wife that I would be going away for a weekend, to a miniature painting workshop. She attends art classes and says she always works better in company; not necessarily because of the instruction, but simply being around like-minded people. I thought it sounded like a great idea for miniature painting.

I asked at my local game store – Dice Saloon in Brighton – and after their change of premises, painting sessions is something they’re looking at starting up. In the meantime, I thought I’d book myself onto one of the Seige Studio courses.

Of course, all that is on the back burner now. But my wife’s art tutor has started running “virtual classes” – where artists are set a project, send in photos, get instruction (where necessary) from the tutor, and once a week have a conference video call. It sounds like a really nice idea.

In fact, if there’s one thing that’d get me painting again, it’d be being part of a herd,  and getting actual instruction (rather than posting photos onto a forum and have half the viewers just say “awesome, man” and the others “thin your paints”)  what I’d like is someone to explain where to put highlights and why, suggestions on how to improve with specific techniques etc, not just an overall critique of the model. I’d like personalised instruction, but to also feel I was part of a “class” so we could collectively work on similar techniques, paint similar models, share ideas etc.

That’s my pledge.

I’m going to find an online painting tutor. I may fail. But wouldn’t it be awesome if the hunt proved successful? Anyone else interested?