Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Art!

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Favourite sculptor? That’s a tough one.
For many years I loved what Andrea Tarabella was doing at Artisan Guild. I still think he’s a fantastic sculptor, even if in recent months his choice of subject hasn’t quite been up my street. His minis are brilliantly proportioned, great fun to paint and have just the right amount of detail.

Speaking of which, Jonathan Llinares of Vae Victis is another sculptor who produces minis that are just a delight to paint – not too much detail, but enough to fill the minis with character.

Sci-fi and cyberpunk is very much my genre, so it’s a bit weird that my favourite sculptors are fantasy-based.
The early Cyber Forge stuff was top notch but they’ve not really produced anything that excited me for a while now.

Christine Van Patten of Moonlight Minis is another sculptor that’s been knocking it out of the park with a range of mostly female-focussed characters (my wife loves this range, and, like the other two mentioned above, they’re always a joy to paint up).

Looking through all of these, there’s definitely a theme – slightly “old-school’ slightly cartoon-y, plenty-of-details-but-not-too-much and I find all of them really enjoyable to paint. Base coat, shade, highlight. I think maybe because they have slightly cartoon-y features, the heads are a bit bigger, making it possible (not necessarily easy) to paint the eyes (because we’re all painting the eyes on our minis, aren’t we? Aren’t we?)

Pledge?
Well I picked “city” for the painting competition because I thought it would create a running joke.
I’m really regretting that, right now! Tough subject. I have a few ideas but I’m still not 100% sure on them. So my pledge is to at least get started on this month’s painting competition.

Music?
Yee-haw! I went to a honky-tonk US-themed bar on Monday, called Rodeos.
They had saloon doors and a mechanical bull, and lots of people were wearing stetons. At the open mic every was playing country music. I think it was one of the better open mics I’ve been to in a long time. I got a few people up on stage to form an impromptu band and we played this one.