My Painting heroes

Before I start putting my painting blogs up I thought I'd better clear a few things up. Firstly I know I'm not a very good painter, my stuff is passable. You see the trouble is while I might know all the tricks of the trade (well a fair few) I'm still just basically an overly enthusiastic amateur. So when looking at my painting blogs please take them in the spirit that they're meant, i.e. an enthusiastic bodger showing you what they're getting up too. However just to show you how crap at painting I know I actually am I've compiled a list of my painting heroes and explained why I've included them on my list, so here they are in no particular order:

Angel Giraldez

Is he the best painter in the world? Well that's a subjective thing really and I'm not really sure there will ever be a 'singular' best painter ever, because we'll all have our favourites. However what does continually impress me about the work Angel puts out is the speed at which he paints to a consistently high standard, now when I say high I mean stupidly good. Some painters might churn out a single masterpiece every 2 or 3 months or even longer 1 piece every 12 months, but not Angel. He is putting out fantastically painted mini's at sometimes 10 or more a month, every month and each piece is a work of art many of us will only be able to dream of getting close to. Not only does he do the Infinity studio paint jobs he's also responsible for a lot of the newer Anima Tactics paint jobs and many more besides. He has a style all of his own but he can adapt it like all the best painters out there depending on the subject his Infinity stuff looks subtly different to his Anima pieces and so on and so forth. Simply brilliant.


Mike McVey

Well he's the original master for me, when I was young my dad used to tell me about thinning paints and shading things properly. However he'd be the first to admit I think that he wasn't the worlds best painter and although it might sound big headed, even without doing all the right things I was a better painter than him so I saw no point in listening to his advice. However when I saw Mikes work... I waxed lyrical about his stunning Green Knight paint job that made me realise there was way more to painting than using a tank brush to do some dry brushing. He inspired me to become a much better painter than I was. I'm still awful but it was his work at Games Workshop and then Privateer Press and indeed now his own Studio McVey that inspired me to want to get better and look up painting techniques. I know from speaking to my many friends that an awful lot of them feel the same way as I do. He's the Godfather of miniature painting for a generation. His better half Ali's not too bad either.

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