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Ciao James, Is the video not that clear?? Please, if you have any question, do ask, I'm here to help. Looking forward to your progress. As a general advice I would say: keep the blending/stippling motion to a minimum when using oil (they tend to get "dirty") You should try to keep a very...

Thanks Andy!!! And have a look there is the new video tutorial, step 2! Also in my masterclass lesson! Ciao Giovanni

Painting with Giovanni: video tutorial 2 Hi guys, Here the second part of the tutorial, painting the face with acrylics. As usual, let me know if you have questions and post your work. Ciao Giovanni

Hi Dave, Thank you, a new one should be ready soon!!! Ciao Giovanni

Thanks so much James! I hope to update it as much as possible, do follow me!! Ciao Giovanni

Ciao Laura, I agree she's brilliant! Thanks for the compliments. Ciao Giovanni

Hi James, Pics are slightly out of focus, but I can understand that is all good! Thanks so much for sharing! Ciao Giovanni

Hi Howard, Thanks so much! Strangely enough, I did post the video tutorial on this very own website, in Master section... Anyway, soon I'll post video2, but it takes ages for me to shoot and edit a video, I'm a complete newbiee! I'm glad you like my friend Zena music, she's awsome!!! I've...

Hi all, I've updated my blog completely and here you can find few interesting articles and how to's. http://giovannimodelling.blogspot.com Let me know what you think. Ciao Giovanni

great, try to use manual white balance, with your camera should be quite straight forward. As for the primer, just an hint, try to use it as little as possible, not to cover any details. leather brown and oxford blue are perfect

Hi James, I see pictures are improved a lot, and I'm really glad! Base coat looking good, and I can see from the smudges on the blanket that the dilution was perfect. I have a couple of things to point out, the right arm and the neck joints to the body, they don;t look completely "gapless" is...

Hi guys, I've plan to paint a figure with James for quite a long tome now, so I decided to use a completely new method for me to explain what I do, video! I bought a camcorder and with a really cool video editing software I created this. Please be nice, this has been my very first experience...

Re: Dafadar , Governor's gerenal bodyguard, India 1912 Hi Laura, Thanks so much, has been fun to paint this little oldy! Ciao Giovanni

Hi Ted, happy to be useful! Please post your pics soon. Ciao Giovanni

Will defo try this and try to see how it goes. have a look at the pictures in my Dafadar topic and tell me what you think. Ciao GIovanni

Hi Laura, Trust me, you will be amazed how different your pictures will look like with just the white balance set up correctly. I'm looking forward to see you pics! Have a look at the finished Dafadar on my other tread and tell me what you think. Ciao Giovanni

Re: Dafadar , Governor's gerenal bodyguard, India 1912 And here we are, I've finally finished this really old and fascinating figure. Has been a pleasure to paint it but, at the same time, a pain as well, with the bad casting and the not so up to modern standard sculpture. As general note...

Thanks so much, really appreciated. I do think that with such small figures, the same effect can be achieved with the spot lights, but I'll defo make tests to check the effects. Is always great to learn new tricks. Have a look at my new pics in the dafadar section later on today (when I'll...

Hi Black-sheep, Thanks for your compliments, I'd like to see same example of the "rim" light effect, can you show it to me, this sounds interesting. I always used the 2 spot light to make the gradient and separate the figure from the background. Please let me know if you can. Ciao Giovanni

Use my magic!!!...and change the to be published date to today, was the 25th of October!