We visited: Workshop Budapest Oracz Art – 01-02 10 2022
Last weekend I had the honor to attend and learn something in Budapest, at a miniature painting workshop with Natalia Oracz, a professional miniature painter from Poland.
The workshop itself was held in Pivnica Legenda (Legenda Sörfözde), which produces extremely delicious beers with fruity flavors, which for me as a person who is not a fan of craft beer was surprisingly tasty and drinkable, especially mango-flavored beer.
Also, the food was really reasonably priced and extremely tasty.
Arriving in the pub itself, I went to the first floor, and saw how the owner of the pub has an understanding of such hobbies, given that he himself is engaged in railway modeling (he literally has a table 8-10 meters long with a large model railway).
The theme of the workshop was Alice Cross bust by Neko Galaxy, and the lecturer paitned the bust using zenithal highlight before the workshop.
The topics of painting without washes, blending without glazes (working only with colors and achieving painterly tonality in the difference of lighting), non-metallic metal steel and accompanying reflections were covered.
I have to admit that at first I was a little frustrated, because I have never attended an international workshop before, and especially not with this level of coloring, both of the lecturer and fellow participants.
However, I decided to take the best I could for myself and set to work. Natalia had the patience to give feedback in multiple rounds to each of the participants, as well as for other miniatures, either physically or from photographs.
I found these tips to be extremely useful, and I will try to apply them to future works.
As I said a moment ago, the other participants painted their works at a truly enviable level, and I am not at all surprised that they win prizes at a number of competitions, and have managed to maintain the standard at competitions such as Mosonshow for years.
However, for me personally, the workshop was quite useful, because the lecturer tried to push every single one of us out of our comfort zone, even if by force (by repainting parts of the bust, yes, really), in order to force us to try something new.
At first, this approach was strange to say the least, but over time it became extremely useful.
I would like to thank Miklos Bute for organizing an extremely useful workshop, and Natalija for extremely useful advice, as well as for helping me try something unusual for my previous painting.
See you next time!
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