Painting Buddha
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 7:32 am
just fyi (and you may already know anyway) but Michael Bartels (aka Zaphod Beeblebrox on many forums, aka the man in charge of Painting Buddha who has done some sterling work in developing and growing this whole painting hobby marlarkey) has a new project. He doesn't just write painfully perceptive blogs about the future of GW. Oh no siree.
His latest brainchild is the Painting Buddha Academy. It's a tad complicated, but it basically works like this:
Painting Buddha will film and produce 42 miniature painting tutorial videos. These will be done by people who have won a seriously large number of golden daemons between them, and produced to as high a standard as any painting vid I have ever seen (and I should know, having paid over a hundred quid for such things over the years. Miniature Mentor I'm looking at you here...). You, the viewer, have a choice:
1) Watch em on youtube at 720p resolution. Pay nothing. Get better at painting.
2) Pay some money for better resolution and more involvement in the project, and perhaps a warm cosy feeling of having helped out a nice chap with a good idea.
The point of my post here is not to suggest anybody pays money to Painting Buddha, but is more just to point out that this is a stupendously good resource for anybody who wants to get better at painting. Seriously - these vids are easily as good, if not better, than any other painting vid I have ever seen. Also, Michael Bartels seems to me to be a very decent chap with his head screwed on right and a clear vision of what he wants the mini painting community to be (i.e. helpful to each other).
So, here's the (somewhat complicated) page that describes what I just described but with more details and more words:
http://www.paintingbuddha.com/blogs/new ... ha-academy
and here's a link to the youtube page. The 3 burna boy tutorials make up tutorial 1, and horus is tutorial 2.
http://www.youtube.com/user/paintingbud ... shelf_id=0
Enjoy
His latest brainchild is the Painting Buddha Academy. It's a tad complicated, but it basically works like this:
Painting Buddha will film and produce 42 miniature painting tutorial videos. These will be done by people who have won a seriously large number of golden daemons between them, and produced to as high a standard as any painting vid I have ever seen (and I should know, having paid over a hundred quid for such things over the years. Miniature Mentor I'm looking at you here...). You, the viewer, have a choice:
1) Watch em on youtube at 720p resolution. Pay nothing. Get better at painting.
2) Pay some money for better resolution and more involvement in the project, and perhaps a warm cosy feeling of having helped out a nice chap with a good idea.
The point of my post here is not to suggest anybody pays money to Painting Buddha, but is more just to point out that this is a stupendously good resource for anybody who wants to get better at painting. Seriously - these vids are easily as good, if not better, than any other painting vid I have ever seen. Also, Michael Bartels seems to me to be a very decent chap with his head screwed on right and a clear vision of what he wants the mini painting community to be (i.e. helpful to each other).
So, here's the (somewhat complicated) page that describes what I just described but with more details and more words:
http://www.paintingbuddha.com/blogs/new ... ha-academy
and here's a link to the youtube page. The 3 burna boy tutorials make up tutorial 1, and horus is tutorial 2.
http://www.youtube.com/user/paintingbud ... shelf_id=0
Enjoy