Antonius Bartonius and his Musical Bellows

 I've slapped some colour on another Eureka Miniatures' Chaos Army chappy. He's Antonius Bartonius and his musical bellows. Painted over a couple of evenings a couple of weeks apart (it's been a busy month).

Having trawled through far too many Bosch and Bruegel paintings searching for these little weirdos*, I thought I'd have a go at making the skin translucent and the cloth meaty slabs of colour ala Bosch, as opposed to my usual tendency to desaturate everything. I'm not sure that I necessarily pulled it off, but I enjoyed trying something new and I'm reasonably happy with how he came out. Here he is with his dog (careful, he bites...)

* I couldn't find an exact match for Antonius, but I think he captures the vibe perfectly.

A Weird Little Freak

 

I had a rare free evening this week, so I treated myself with slapping some paint on this weird little guy. It was liberating to paint a miniature for no other reason than my own amusement.

He's Batface the Biter from Eureka Miniature's Chaos Army range, sculpted by Mike Darpa and inspired by the works of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel. I picked up half a dozen of these minis a while back. They are lovely sculpts, crisp castings, with only minor clean up required, and this one was a joy to paint. 

Part of the fun of this range is searching for the images that inspired the sculpts. There's quite a few heads with legs in the works of Bosch and Bruegel, but I think this one is loosely based on a demon in the central panel of the triptych The Temptation of St Anthony (c.1506), currently in the collection of Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon.

Bosch's demon is more fishy than bat-y, and has an arrow in his bum, but I'm pretty certain that this is the one. I might do a few more of these.

Cheers