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<blockquote data-quote="tallyrand" data-source="post: 4827442" data-attributes="member: 61879"><p><span style="color: white">BRACE YOURSELF</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: white">Alright, you have your paints all laid out, your brushes soldier upped in a nice neat row, fresh brushwater, a clean mat of paper towels, a brand spanking new primed and prepped mini, sitting there, as full of potential as a five year old with a tool box. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: white">What’s the problem? </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: white">Your hands are shaking like a lab monkey on his 10th bottle of Mountain Dew.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: white">Your paint is ending up everywhere but where you want it, that white for the eye has just become a cheek highlight, and the buckle on the baldric has become silver smear down the front of the jerkin. (someone remind me to talk about cleaning up messes later)</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: white">What you need is power… Pyramid Power! Pyramids do more than tell us what to eat, keep our undead secure, and our razors sharp, they keep our hands steady too!</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: white">When painting you want to use your arms and hands to form a stable triangle with your brush and mini as the apex. </span></p><p><span style="color: white">-Your forearms, braced just past the elbow against the edge of the table. </span></p><p><span style="color: white">-Your non painting hand holding the mini, usually top and bottom (this is another reason that I paint the hair last, and don’t use some kind of grip/base on the mini)</span></p><p><span style="color: white">-Painting hand, with the brush held, nice and close to the bristles between thumb and your first finger, you place the 2nd and 3rd fingers of your brush hand along the 1st finger of your mini hand.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: white">This gives you both a stable platform to work from, and still leaves you with a good range of motion for the brush. The only drawback, is it’s kinda hard to look too close at the mini while doing this without hunching, my solution for this is to either use a lower than normal seat while painting, or a higher than normal work area. Personally I just adjust my chair as low as it goes.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tallyrand, post: 4827442, member: 61879"] [COLOR=white]BRACE YOURSELF[/COLOR] [COLOR=white]Alright, you have your paints all laid out, your brushes soldier upped in a nice neat row, fresh brushwater, a clean mat of paper towels, a brand spanking new primed and prepped mini, sitting there, as full of potential as a five year old with a tool box. [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]What’s the problem? [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]Your hands are shaking like a lab monkey on his 10th bottle of Mountain Dew.[/COLOR] [COLOR=white]Your paint is ending up everywhere but where you want it, that white for the eye has just become a cheek highlight, and the buckle on the baldric has become silver smear down the front of the jerkin. (someone remind me to talk about cleaning up messes later)[/COLOR] [COLOR=white]What you need is power… Pyramid Power! Pyramids do more than tell us what to eat, keep our undead secure, and our razors sharp, they keep our hands steady too![/COLOR] [COLOR=white]When painting you want to use your arms and hands to form a stable triangle with your brush and mini as the apex. [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]-Your forearms, braced just past the elbow against the edge of the table. [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]-Your non painting hand holding the mini, usually top and bottom (this is another reason that I paint the hair last, and don’t use some kind of grip/base on the mini)[/COLOR] [COLOR=white]-Painting hand, with the brush held, nice and close to the bristles between thumb and your first finger, you place the 2nd and 3rd fingers of your brush hand along the 1st finger of your mini hand.[/COLOR] [COLOR=white]This gives you both a stable platform to work from, and still leaves you with a good range of motion for the brush. The only drawback, is it’s kinda hard to look too close at the mini while doing this without hunching, my solution for this is to either use a lower than normal seat while painting, or a higher than normal work area. Personally I just adjust my chair as low as it goes.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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