I recently watched this Vince Venturella video about mining Vincent Van Gogh’s “Vase with Asters and Phlox” for miniature painting inspiration. I’ve been in a bit of a rut using the same recipes that I’ve been using for years, and I have a huge pile of skeletons in need of a new paint scheme, so I decided to give it a go.

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It’s not meant to be a literal translation, just exploring some of the ideas in Van Gogh’s painting. I cranked up my shadows in ways that are wildly unrealistic but evocative. I stuck with a mostly monochromatic palette – there’s red in everything. And I tried to use paint-as-texture using hatching & stippling to separate the cloth from the rust. Add a dash of blanchitsu grunginess

All of this in a somewhat speedpainty-ish mode, since I have a boatload of undead to go. I’ve got a few ideas to make it better and faster.