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My #miniaturePainting #warmonger painting has sharply improved over the last few years, so here are my top tips that helped me: 
Tip 1: wicking.
Wicking is where you load your brush with thinned paint/wash/ink and then touch it to some paper.
The excess moisture is wicked away, leaving your brush with a thin coating that won't flood or drip, allowing you extremely good paint control.
Wicking is where you load your brush with thinned paint/wash/ink and then touch it to some paper.
The excess moisture is wicked away, leaving your brush with a thin coating that won't flood or drip, allowing you extremely good paint control.
Wicking utterly transformed the way I paint, giving me the ability to hit fine details and add hints of color with precision.
Think of it like this, you mini is absolutely tiny, and so even a dip of paint is too big. Wicking scales down the paint on your brush.
Think of it like this, you mini is absolutely tiny, and so even a dip of paint is too big. Wicking scales down the paint on your brush.
#miniaturePainting diary. Some thoughts on decades of collecting:
I spent today doing a Mary Kondo for my minis, both sorting through and organising my tubs, and evaluating what sparks joy.
I have some thoughts.
I spent today doing a Mary Kondo for my minis, both sorting through and organising my tubs, and evaluating what sparks joy.
I have some thoughts.
So, if you aren't aware my main obsession is collecting and painting miniatures, and I lot. If you have a "pile of shame" of unpainted warhammer minis you feel bad about, you would probably feel better for looking at what I have to deal with.
My collection is all in A4 sized snaplock tubs, each holding about this many minis, depending on base size. Around 80 minis per tub, if standing.
But that is the based minis. The real horror comes from the tubs filled with loose minis in baggies, and the sprue boxes.
But that is the based minis. The real horror comes from the tubs filled with loose minis in baggies, and the sprue boxes.
“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” - #VincentVanGogh I had boarded this @AirIndia flight 2 years back.Have never seen a more beautifully #painted plane before!Have you?It’s gotpart of a #miniaturepainting on its tail wing.
Found it so fascinating that I kept staring up at it. Felt I was part of this scene from centuries back, literally flying back into time. I’m told it’s a page from a1700 #malwa painting.Why shud technology be inside a museum, why cannot art be on it @MuseumWeek @airindiain
Happy Basant Panchami: in India it means ‘Basant’ or Spring is here. India has 6 seasons, each as beautiful as the other ♥️ Let’s celebrate it through our love for Nature as Draupadi and her attendants are in this miniature painting made 500 years
This #miniaturepainting is from ‘Razmnana’ commissioned by Abdur Rahim Khan-e-Khanan, able commander, #poet #advisor of #Mughal emperor #Akbar a #dyslexic he made it his mission for translation of many manuscripts into highly illustrated books in his ‘taswirkhana’painting atelier
The world’s best #artists #calligraphers were part of these elaborate projects. The ‘Razmnama’ is the Persian translation of the Mahabharata
This painting is from the @PiramalMuseum
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Read more on spring: varnikadesigns.wordpress.com/2019/02/10/spr…❤%EF%B8%8F-really/#
This painting is from the @PiramalMuseum
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Read more on spring: varnikadesigns.wordpress.com/2019/02/10/spr…❤%EF%B8%8F-really/#
