From TashaH - Painting Firsts (Sarah's Star Yacht) (30 points)

 

Wow! It's been a week!

I have been working on getting my new painting room set up and it has significantly cut in to my actual painting time. Short term pain for long term gain! I was fortunate enough to travel to the city this week and acquire many more new paint colours. A new painting desk must be properly appointed! I can't wait to try them all. Perhaps I need to find a rainbow to paint. 

On to this week's submission.

A long time ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I painted my first figure. I was fortunate enough to participate in an advanced learning program in school as a child. We attended regular school two days a week and then took advanced programs three days a week. I remember my favourite was learning about Astronomy at the University. I also got to learn how to do things like make ceramics. This is where I made this beauty of a figure. She isn’t a miniature, but she is a sight to behold! Measuring in at about 6 inches, she has been a part of my life since I was 9 years old. 

 

This is the first miniature I painted. She is facilitating my trip aboard Lady Sarah’s Star Yacht today to the planet, Klendathu. She is a 3D print from Great Grimoire on My Mini Factory I love the Great Grimoire prints. 

I had help with this figure. A lot of help. I had in-person, one on one instruction with the Snowlord himself! Unfortunately (and ironically) our painting lesson was cut short due to a snow storm. 

 

 

 

 

You can see how nicely Curt had me set up. I was even gifted a paint journal. You will not see my paint journal. If you wish to see how a paint journal should be maintained, please refer to Lady Sarah's Guide to Awesome and Amazing Paint Journals. 

 

 

 

Can we talk about how amazing these boots are? 

The details on this print are outstanding.

After I left Curt’s instruction, structure and discipline fell to the wayside and my haphazard style emerged. I retained the fundamentals (mostly!) but my go to solution of 'just keep adding more layers until it looks decent' was developed with this figure! 

When I initially painted this figure, I had an incredibly limited paint selection. I obtained the colour of her cloak by blending 3 colours of contrast paints. The owl started out white, then was grey, and finally ended up brown. Poor guy has really tough body image issues now. I gave him a nice going over with my newly obtained Nuln Oil and for that he is quite happy.

 

The points:

54mm figure: 10 points

Planet bonus: 20 points

Total points: 30

Chocolate Cake Duel: 10 points

Next week will be buggy...

That is a lovely figure, Tasha, and great to see your first ever painted "mini". Your painting is coming along nicely!

Tamsin