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Sword & Brush is happy to introduce our second seminar for this years show!

Beyond Basic Colour Theory

Do you want to take your understanding of colour to the next level? To develop the tools to ensure your pieces have a strong ambience? Kyle has put together a short talk (with some activities) to help familiarize yourself with the tools and methods that can aid in understanding how to bring your colour use out of the basics and to help you take the steps to develop colour that makes your pieces look complete and cohesive. The goal of this class is to give you the knowledge and tools to improve your colour overall, with discussion as a key element. We will play with paint to drive some points home, but we will not be painting a specific miniature for this. If you bring any pieces you would like feedback on in this regard, Kyle will be happy to offer it (may occur shortly after the class, due to time constraints).

Topics that will be covered:
-Introduction to a more comprehensive colour wheel and alternatives to a simple red blue yellow primary colour system
-insight into what goes into making paint and how you can apply that knowledge to have more control over your paint
- Gamut mapping - what it is, how to use it, and how its application will improve the ambience of your pieces almost instantly
- A discussion and analysis of ambience in general

What you can bring: A set of primary colour paints you are comfortable with, a brush (doesn’t need to be anything fancy, base pasting special is enough), and a small palette. Kyle will have a set of paints to share if you prefer.

Time: 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Register at: www.swordandbrush.ca/events-seminars/

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"Guiding Light"

Something fun I did in 2025, that if you were around during one of my rare I went outside to a show excursions, you have already seen. Let it be a reminder - just because the world is burning, doesn't mean we can't roast marshmallows.

I still exist. I do still paint. I am pretty tired of sharing on socials, but today I'll make an exception, for the sake of amusement.

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Great teacher, great people, great class.
Thanks to everyone for coming out and thanks to Natalia for coming all the way here to teach.
I hope everyone learned a lot and had a great time.
Thank you also to monument hobbies for the paints for the workshop. They were great!
See you all soon!
#minipainting #fantasyminiatures #fantasyart #monumenthobbies

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Working on NMM theory, base coating and adding primary and secondary reflections.
Oh- and cool dragons.
Thanks to @oracz.art for an awesome day.

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Great painting and hanging session today.
here are pics of some of the work people were doing today.
Thanks everyone who came.
Hope to see you all next time!

And thanks to Brian for taking the picture

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She's Up! 🎄

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#bust #spiramirabilis_miniatures #wargamepainting #lucaspina #miniaturepainting

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End of day 2 – weekend workshop wrap up.

I would say that most of these are still works in progress for people, but I am so impressed with how far we have been able to come in just two days in a what was a totally new medium for most people.

Thanks for all participants for coming and enduring the heat.

Thanks for Jakob @pink_label_studio for being such an awesome instructor and guiding us all through this amazing experience with oil paints and for the very cool “eyes” model where we had our first experience with oils.

Thanks for @robotrocketminiatures for the awesome model. It is such a cool bust and was perfect for this class

Thanks also to @thearmypainter for the brushes. As we all learned, painting with oils can be very hard on your brushes and it was great to be able to experiment with abandon using these brushes that were great for the task.

Great weekend all!

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#paintingminiatures #displaypainting #fantasyminiatures #androidart #scifiminiatures

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Start of day 2 - Works in progress for oil painting course with @pink_label_studio . It’s been awesome so far. Can’t wait to see where day two takes us!
Poor photo quality is all on me..

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#bust #lucaspina #spiramirabilis_miniatures #miniaturepainting #wargamepainting

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#bust #spiramirabilis_miniatures #lucaspina #wargamepainting #miniaturepainting #oneepicarmy

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