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Hi Patrons, Today I'd like to share an old classic with you - it's one of my favorite NMM paintjobs I've done. The project felt quite loose and relaxed and I've found that this is often where I create my best work! You can find the full lesson (for free!) below

Hi Patrons, Today I'd like to share a bit about my own experiences competing and how I'd rework an old piece that won gold in Standard to a piece that would fit into Masters level painting. I hope you'll find this format fun, and let me know if you'd like to see more feedback for my past self :) Hap

Hi everyone, I'm happy to share some pictures of my latest paintjob! I had a lot of fun with painting this figure and I was really drawn to the frail look of the character - so I wanted to represent this with my use of color, light and shadow. Therefore, I wanted to explore desaturated delicate skin

Hi Patrons, It's been a while since I recieved the Patrick J. Jones paints from Mindworks and since then, I have been wanting to spend more time with them and give you a more informed review than my initial impressions that I shared with you earlier this year. What I didn't realize at the time was,

The next cohort of Introduction to Display Painting in Oils begins on September 14th. Over seven weeks, we’ll paint a complete display bust together and build a repeatable process for working with oil paints on miniatures. You’ll receive: Structured weekly lessons and assignments. Live feedback on y

Hi Patrons, I'm happy to share this video with you that was suggested by Armando on the Patreon discord server. It'll cover the fundamentals of painting faces, skin tones and how I've used color in many of my painting processes. This video touches on a lot of topics so please let me know if you have

Oil paints have been part of painting for centuries, but they still come with a few persistent misconceptions. Here are three questions I get all the time. 1. Are oil paints unsafe? Oil paint itself is simply pigment suspended in drying oil, usually linseed oil. The main things to be aware of are th

Hi everyone, For the past three years I've been painting miniatures, producing lessons and teaching you how to take the next steps in your own painting journey. It's been a fantastic time, and to celebrate my birthday (which is today, hurrah!) - I want to share all of that with you at a huge discoun

Out of all the surfaces we encounter on miniatures, there’s one I find more challenging and subtle to render than almost any other. No, it’s not metallics although they’re a close second. I’m talking about skin Well-painted skin tones have humbled me time and time again in my journey as an artist. T

There’s a trap that can happen when painting miniatures. It can weaken the impact of a paint job especially when we’re trying our hardest to create the smoothest blends possible. The obsession with smooth blends can lead to a flat and timid-looking result. Smoothness is beautiful, but it only works

Registration is now open for Introduction to Display Painting in Oils, my new seven-week online workshop. The workshop is built around a simple idea: learning miniature painting works better when you have time to practise, receive feedback, make corrections and then try again. Over seven weeks, we’l

Hi Patrons, I hope you'll enjoy the VOD from yesterdays stream! Happy painting!

Hi everyone, Earlier this week I wrote a bit about my experience with learning oil painting and announced my new online workshop: Introduction to Display Painting in Oils. If you missed the post - you can read it here If you’d like to spend seven weeks working through the course with direct feedback

I vividly remember the smell of oil paints and the thickness in the air as twenty-some miniature nerds packed into a cool basement on a hot summer Saturday in 2023. Our teacher, Jakob Villien, gave each of us a small ceramic tile to use as a palette, a miniature, and a few brushes. Jakob talked for

Hi Patrons, I hope you'll enjoy this insight into the Fut on the boar of my Palette Cleanser Project. I'm really liking the vibe of this project. Next episode will cover the leather belt across his chest. Enjoy! Palette Cleanser - pt. 2 - Fur texture (YouTube)

Hi Patrons, Here's the VOD from yesterdays palette cleanser live-stream. It was really fun to paint and give feedback to you all! Thank you for joining and sharing your amazing works! // Malte

Hi Patrons, Today I'd like to share a little bit of a different video with you. This is my first hour (unedited and in real time) of my painting on the Palette Cleanser Project. This is not a how-to and I don't consider this video a painting lesson. The whole idea behind the Palette Cleanser Event i

Hi patrons, I hope you'll enjoy this YouTube video where I discover that planning miniature painting projects is actually kind of important. Who knew? I certainly didn't. If you're interested in joining my next online workshop Thanks for watching! I really should know this by now... (YouTube)

This past weekend I was at Kontrast, coming home I always feel so inspired by the miniatures. This year I felt very strongly the emotions of the people as well. I've been to a lot of competitions since my first event in 2022 - multiple shows a year, across standard and masters categories. I've come

For the past couple of months, many of you have been working through my online workshop, Foundations of Miniature Painting. We’ve been studying the fundamentals of light and color, and I’ve been really impressed with the work all of the students have put in. But after a focused period like that, I a

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Foundations of Miniature Painting begins this Monday, April 6. Enrollment closes tomorrow, April 3 at 23:59 CET. Over the past few weeks, I’ve written about composition, decision-making, structure, and the difference between copying and understanding in miniature painting. If those ideas have resona

A lot of painters fear the “ugly” stage. You know the one I mean. When the blends are harsh. When the brush strokes are obvious. When the colors don’t quite sit together yet. That fear often makes people slow down too early. They try to make every step look presentable. They soften contrasts before

Which is why I wanted to share a simple guide with you on how I painted this red shoulderplate - a short lesson in applied color theory. I start with a mixture of Monument Hobbies transparent purple a burnt red to create a dark and slightly cooler version of my red. I want these cool shadows because

In all my teachings there’s a clear pattern I’ve seen from my students. A habit that is hard to kick. And though this habit comes from good intentions. I've seen it frustrate painters and ruin the impact of paintjobs too often to count. Ok, enough suspense. I’m talking about thinning your paints. I

I like to cook. I cook most days, and I think I’m reasonably decent at it. But if you placed me in a Michelin-star kitchen tomorrow, I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t last long. Not because I can’t cook - but because I don’t understand cooking at that level. At home, my process is simple. When I taste s

A big problem I see in the way miniature painting is portrayed on social media is its obsession with rendering and detail. You’ve probably seen the kind of post I’m talking about. A primed figure - except for one hyper-rendered shoulder pad, or knee, or helmet. The contrast between the black primer

Hi Patrons Here's the VOD of yesterdays live-stream. If you want to paint Konrad with me - be sure to check out my online workshop https://www.wpdminis.com/foundations-of-miniature-painting/ For some reason the audio was only working in the left channel - I'll be sure to fix this for my next live-st