Painting with my Daughter

My 2 y/o daughter has been doing a lot of painting with me lately. I've slowly teaching her the ropes, mostly it is just about putting paint all over the mini, getting her to look more for "peek-a-boo's" or white spots that haven't been painted yet. She now bases the minis (mostly) herself, and chooses  the models from my random minis bin. She gets pretty loose with it and has done some really interesting things - wetblending with random paint/ink, wiping away with the paper towels, or sometimes adding way too much basing material onto the model itself (like the blightlord below.)

Anyway enjoy - it's cool to see what a 2 y/o (with a little assistance) is capable of.

Some of these I'll treat as initial basecoats and add more to them, and some of them will just get reprimed or thrown back into the bin, but they are a fun way to introduce her to this world.

xoxox

Terry

Interrogator Haliso

I’ve been slowly painting away at Interrogator Haliso and some of her retinue.

These have been fun to work on, although they’ve been fiddly as hell to bash. Lots of green stuff and wires (except the cherub who I just liked as is) 

I never took any photos of the interrogator herself, but here’s a build shot of the skull:

And some shots of them all finished:

Quick Post! Onto the next, I hope these guys’ll hit the tabletop one day as an away team in W!R or OPR Starquest

We’ll see.

Xoxox

Terry

Gravesite Markers for Age of Sigmar

Whipped up some markers for Nezzerat’s undead forces. There’s been a lot of talk of playing AoS in my group lately, who knows if it’ll happen but I like making stuff for the army. I never got around to making gravesite markers last time we were playing and always used dice as markers - wack! So I made some quick ones using an old board book that had gotten ruined:

Primed it up and the crazy crustard yellow and green look more cohesive:

Finally a quick little paintjob and flocking and it’s looking proper swampy:

That’s all folks! Hopefully some more AoS things soon

Xoxo

WRMHL 6/11

Well I can't call this a weekly update anymore HA. It's been about a month, and a busy one at that. As my second child gets closer to arrival - I've been head down trying to get all my loose ends tied up.

I still find some time here or there for some hobby however. Much of my effort has been in bashing and some light sculpting. I am working on random sci-fi duders. About 2 years ago (or more) that's all I would make and I loved it! Over the last couple years I have been mostly working on large army projects and have finished a few forces. I am glad to be back to this slower, pointless way of making INQ28 guys.

They will probably find some use here or there, but for now the satisfaction is seeing them being conjured into existence. Here are some examples:

I've also primed up a 54mm Sister of Battle that Dillon (@voidhalation) gave me. I've very stoked to try and paint at this scale.

Lastly, although I primed over it. I've been doing some hobbying with my 2 year old. The other day she dunked a blightlord terminator into my pot of basing material while we were painting and I loved the effect. I primed over it to have her paint again, she's happy to just have cool dudes to slop wet paint on so she won't mind doing this dude again:

Thanks for checkin it out. I may be posting some of these, no context style, onto IG. I'm not sure how I feel about trying to reengage over there, so we will see.

Love yall!

Terry

Weekly WRMHL 5/11

Phew - it's been almost a month since I last posted. This past month (and no doubt all of May) have been swamped. Been busy with finishing up a class for school, finishing personal artwork, and setting up a show with my wife at the gallery we are a part of - on top of just a handful of small projects that have added up.

Most of those things are behind me at long last, and I'm ready for another wave of to-do. Not sure why I do this to myself but I suppose it's better than just waitin' around to die.

Been working on making models towards my new Inq28 yarn that I've been spinning. Here is a Rogue Trader named Isadore Tilcott, captain of the "Starkloss" who procures rare books and objects for Inquisitor Selene as she hides away on Hasaresh 741. 

Here's one of his crew:

Here's a build shot of Isadore, the body is a bootleg delaque, arms are Wargames Atlantic pirates with some greenstuff work, and the head is a high elf head.

I've been working at a body of photography based on a local semi-abandoned factory:

And here's a few shots from the gallery, the space isn't huge but I fit what I could in there:

That's it for now, hope to be back next week with some more updates!

Love ya!

Weekly WRMHL 4/10

Just a little dump of things I've been working on to round out the week:

I've bashed up what will be a heavily moderated psyker for my (yet named) inquisitor's retinue:

Feels good to be at the work bench again building stuff after being singularly focused on BroPro. I've started painting him too, but that'll wait til later.

I'm hoping to have a post out documenting my board and build, but likely that will be a (free?) post on the patreon, so we'll get there when I can put it back together.

I've also been working on some xerox collages, trying some new things:

This last one will be displayed at my show at the end of this month. I am working with a local photography studio to enlarge it, and I'm excited to see what scale does to transform it.

I am sure I already have enough work for the show, but I'm trying to eek out one more artwork which will be similar to the upper lit corner in my Godling work - just larger.

We'll see!

Pce for now

Terry

Weekly WRMHL 3/20 and Daido Moriyama

This week's been a big work week for me, lots of projects at school that took most of my bandwidth. On top of that I've been working on my board and BBEG for the Brothers of Promethium 2 Event at Adepticon, but likely I will post all my process shots over on the HS patreon when that secret project is all wrapped up.

So since it's a short week, I figured I'd highlight anther longtime influence of mine, Daido Moriyama, a Japanese Street photographer I remember learning about on tumblr (ah those were the days.)

He's got a raw, quick, black and white high contrast thing that GRIPPED ME

It's hard to even start putting images in here because he has thousands to choose from, but I've got some highlights. He's a street photography god in my mind, and his working process is beautiful. The work itself is layered, textural and the iso (either film or digital) is CRANKED up.

I think what gets me the most is his work is very intuitive, he works with his gut first - and responds instinctively. With creative pursuits we sometimes think that toiling and focusing and struggling will make our work great, I think that working quickly captures ENERGY and excitement that overworking washes out.

Here's a great quote:

Think about what that means, not just for photography but for all artforms - our end goal isn't to make artwork that people say "oh look how good you are" it's about conjuring up something that you can't explain with words.

Here's a cool video of him working/talking about his stuff (if it autodubs, use the video settings to turn back to Japanese, this AI dub aint it):

As far as what I can share, I completed a small zine that I'll handout for free at adepticon if anyone is interested. It's mostly a collection of thoughts made form - but hopefully it gives some people ideas.

Anyway PCE!

xoxo

Terry