Saturday, September 23, 2023

Achievement Unlocked!

This is wild! The Scibor Facebook page.

 

Yeah, that's a screen shot of my paint job being used by a manufacturer of miniatures as an advertisement. I couldn't be more pleased with myself. The numbers are great 229 people think that these are dope. Then there's the Instagram...

 

961 hearts!!! WHAT IS GOING ON!!

This all started as a Zorn palette study, that turned into a painting competition and culminated with my paint jobs representing for Scibor Miniatures. 

 

I'm proud of myself. We'll see what comes next.


Totally speechless,

HMP

 

Monday, August 21, 2023

I Won A Painting Competition!

Ttle says it all! 


I'm super pleased to announce that I won an online painting competition. It was an interesting experience, and for sure a roller coaster of emotion, as you could see the live results fluctuating. 

I guess the, downside, if there was one, is that it's all done via popular vote. There's nothing wrong with that, per se, but the populace isn't know for great collective decision making. The other thing is that unlike an art show, or a celebration of art, how does one with no instruction "judge" one piece to be "better" than another? I'm not sure. 

All that I know is that quite a few people preferred mine over those it was pitted against. The other issue, is thatyou don't really find out what people didn't like, so for anyone who didn't "win" doesn't really know what they did "wrong". I dunno if that's a very nice environment for people to find themselves in.

I only bested the above by a vote or two, so is mine really "better"? Don't know. Would I do it again? Don't know. 

Am I pleased with myself? Yes.

Keep your brushes clean,
HMP