Here is my version of the fantastic sculpt from Lucas Pina. I need to thank Ben Curry for letting me join his experiment with Ivan Hortal and Magnus Fagerberg. We each did our own version, ensuring none of the others knew how we were approaching our own piece.

Originally I'd thought of returning to an old idea I had of blending all the colours to grey in the shadows, but thought this may be too similar to whatever Magnus was working on as he has a mastery of desaturated tones. So after a while I thought I could blend to a single shadow colour such as blue, and from there it just progressed to a rather simplistic comic style concept of warm and cold colours.

I feel a lot of this owes it's inspiration to the work of Cam Kennedy, especially "Light and Darkness War". There is no attempt to match the colour to the material, the skin is just as yellow and blue as the feathers. Nor is there any real attempt to treat the blue as some sort of under lighting; the placement of the lightest blues being for their impact.


The blues were from the scale 75 range
The warm tones were from Kimera (with a little help from a couple of GW reds)


I hope you find it interesting
And thanks once again to Ben, Magnus and Ivan

  • Alex ✍

    One of my all-timefavourites this year! Love it ❤️

  • Magnus FagerbergPLUS

    It’s fantastic!

    • Conrad Mynett

      Thanks, was a wonderful event to be part of

  • Ivan Hortal A.PLUS

    amazing version!!!

    • Conrad Mynett

      Thanks, was a great team

  • Kyle Maitland

    A very original take, for sure, love the ‘belligerant’ colour use, it makes you wonder what was in that tea…

  • Theodoros Giannakopoulos

    Very nice study on lights/shadow effects.
    Gongradulations, Conrad !
    Gold for me.

  • QianweiSHI

    nicely playing with light and color!

  • Roman LappatPLUS

    A pure and direct Editor’s choice from my end! This is magnificant, Conrad.

    • Conrad Mynett

      Thank you so much; always good to try something a bit mad every year or 2 :)

  • Jens Riber Poulsen

    Awesome conrad!

  • Jero Miniatures

    You take is very refreshing and inspirational. You have my admiration Sir.

    Congratz Conrad!

    • Conrad Mynett

      Thanks, glad you liked it.

  • Andreu "Morglum Minis"

    Mindblowing!! Your works are incredible mate!

  • Melnikov Ivan "Nakatan"

    woooooooooow 0_0

    • Conrad Mynett

      Ta.  Now give me 5 minutes to chase all your other comments down :)