NOTE: The official sign up thread is at CMON - with a link at the end of this post.
Secret Weapon Miniatures and Great Escape Games are binging Mathieu Fontaine to Sacramento to teach both of his masterclass workshops on back-to-back weekends. If you're one of the few that don't already know Mathieu's work here's a quick intro:
17 golden demons including 7 golds including 1 in France and 1 in
UK
2 Best of Show Forgeworld
Gold medals in advance/master at Chicago MMSI, Atlanta MFCA, Long Island LIHMCS and Paris Mix Open
BOS Fantasy at Atlanta MFCA
His work has been published in numerous
WD both US and
UK or France, as well as independent publications.
He has taught this Masterclass more than a dozen times across the United States and Canada and has been teaching fully booked classes at Adepticon (2 years) and GENCON (3 years).
I personally attended the Masterclass I when it was in Alamo, California and was impressed enough that I immediately got in touch with Mathieu about bringing him out again.
But now - on to the class descriptions:
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MASTERCLASS I
A Masterclass is an intensive class on painting figurines over 2 days. Every techniques and theoretical concepts are covered from the undercoat to perfect blending passing by zenithal lighting.
The figurine will allow every student to have plenty of time to explore the principal areas of painting: clothing, skin, the face and metallics. In terms of theory, zenithal lighting, composition, color theory and base conception will be explored giving every students a complete understanding of the theoretical concepts to maximize the impact of his or her miniature.
The class is over 2 intensive days, saturday and sunday. Saturday starts at 9 am and last until 9 pm and sunday goes from 9am to 6 pm.
The class is open to every level of painters. Whether you are holding a brush for the first time or you have painted hundreds of models for your armies everyone will benefit from this class. Each students will receive the same technical and theoretical information but the follow up is totally personalized and 1 on 1. Every student will be pushed to the maximum of his or her abilities in order to make sure that everyone get the maximum out of this experience. So whether you are an army painter that want to know how to have better results on its favorite model or you are the painter that dream about a Golden Demon this class is for you.
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MASTERCLASS 2
Masterclass II are for the painters that want to reach another level and discover vehicule painting techniques. The regular Masterclass did not require any experience. It was open to every painter motivated to learn whether you had painted a mini before or not. The Masterclass II is aimed at painters with more experience. We will approach various military modeling techniques, push blending to another level, explore airbrushing both for vehicule and figurine, play with unusual products such as oil paint and weathering pigment and experiment with base building and painting.
The airbrush section of this class will be a 3-4 hours demonstration. If you have an airbrush and compressor and want to bring it to the class to experiment with the techniques as they are being demonstrated you are more than welcome but it is not mandatory.
Material required: As with the original masterclass you’ll need to bring your brushes, paint and lamp. The oil paints and pigments will be provided for you as well as the usual plate, cup and paper.
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Both classes have an ANTICIPATED cost of $80 per person.
Why do I say "anticipated"? Because the more people we have the lower the cost per person will be. We'll cut off the registration at the end of June or as soon as each class has 20 people registered. The cost covers Mathieu's fee and the flight.
Each student that registers for the BOTH workshops will also receive a Raphael 8404 #1 brush compliments of Secret Weapon Miniatures -- the brush that Mathieu recommends and will be demonstrating with during the workshops.
You can email questions to
misterjustin@secretweaponminiatures.com
If you would like to register for either or both workshops please do so here:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?45736-Mathieu-Fontaine-Masterclass-I-amp-II-Sacramento-California-August-2011&p=609511#post609511
