A Lord of Blights is a brutish figure  who creates and destroys in equal measure.  Swollen with muscle, he lumbers into the midst  of the foe swinging his bubotic hammer in thunderous arcs.  Every impact shatters bone and ruptures organs,  leaving his victims lying like bruised and rotten fruit on the ground. -  Games Workshop Hello one and all and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! I hope you're looking forward to a great weekend. Let's get it off to a good start by admiring the culmination of the past few weeks efforts: the Lord of Blights in all his festering glory.  If you're just joining us, this is the model that I started at Marco Frisoni's workshop a few weeks ago. We have seen the value sketch and then moved on to the colours last week.  To say that I'm happy with how this guy turned out would be an understatement. As I mentioned above, I have already waxed lyrical about the painting process of this guy for a few weeks now, so let's j...

Masters of the corpse orchards,  the Lords of Blights are responsible for creating  the blessed death’s heads.  These projectiles are doled out to their Rotbringers,  and hurled at the foe  to spread the plagues festering within. - Games Workshop Welcome back to your weekly respite here on The Art of Caesura! Today we are going to continue our look at a very special model. It is of the Lord of Blights that I painted at Marco Frisoni's workshop a few weeks ago. And I have to say, I think I really levelled-up painting this guy! If you're just joining us, I attended my first painting course recently, which you can read about here .  Last week I showed you the first stage of painting this guy - the value sketch. So today we'll look at adding the haunting and toxic colours.  Once I had my value sketch in place (see last week), it was time to start adding colour. Before working on the OSL effect, I blocked in the "local" colours; these are the colours that ...

  Perfect is the enemy of good. - Voltaire Hello Hobby peeps and welcome to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! Today I want to talk about a painting concept which is pretty obvious, but only really hit home for me a couple of years ago: it's the idea that you don't always have to paint your best. Now, that's a bit of a negative way of putting it, because what I'm really talking about is cultivating the ability to have different "levels" of painting and recognizing when each is appropriate. Sufficiently confused? Good, let's dig in. So, what got me thinking about this is that I'm painting my first Black Templar in almost a decade, and my painting confidence has come on a long way since the last Black Templar model that I painted. This current model (which will be the subject of multiple posts in the near future) is bringing me pure hobby joy. I am really digging into it, and happily spending about three times as long on it as I would normally spend o...

Welcome one and all to the 300th post on The Art of Caesura!!! Yes indeed, three hundred consecutive weeks of (mostly) hobby-related action over the past five and a half years! It's kind of hard to imagine - by any metric (number of photos per post or number of words per post or number of hours put into each post, multiplied by 300 is quite a lot no matter which way you cut it).  As a tribute to the blog, we're going to celebrate by looking at one hundred photos spanning from now back to the 200th post . And, as an Easter egg for those regular readers, you'll find some images from the future, that haven't yet been posted on the blog. As always, you can click on each picture for a high resolution version.  So sit back, and enjoy these snapshots from the blog as we celebrate 300 posts! Wow! Time flies! It was wonderful to look back and revel again in some of my most beloved miniatures and also to recall some of the miniatures that, frankly, I had forgotten about! Thank yo...