Hi everyone I have decided to paint a backdrop or two for photographing the miniatures that I have painted. I decided to start with a cityscape style background. The trick with any background is to make sure it highlights the figures and doesn’t distract, because you want people’s eyes to concentrate on the figure and not what is going on in the background.

The videos are a bit amateurish as this is my first attempt. I will get better or stop doing it!!

The materials used were just a cheap canvas from a $2.00 shop, tubes and pots of budget acrylic paints, and enough small sponges for the amount of colours you are going to use.

Using some black paint I then blocked in the buildings with a sponge, added some dark blue paint to the same sponge to give a slightly lighter colour for the building shadows.

I then added the trees by dabbing the sponge to create a rounded look, and added some brown with another sponge for the branches and trunks. I also scraped away some of the black paint on the buildings with an old paint brush to show the orange underneath for windows and to create an isometric view, and then added some white and yellow for the lights in the buildings.

Some purple, pink and blue paints were used for a bit more depth.

This photo gives you are view of the whole canvas showing what would normally appear in the background.

Batcan and boy blunder…….go Cobblepot!

I only used an 18 inch square canvas this time just in case it became FUBAR. Next time I will use something about double the width.

Whilst I will do better for my next attempt, I am happy with the concept, but not necessarily the end product – at least for a first attempt………. after all I am an impressionist (I’m pressed in it)!!!