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PRELUDE Hello everyone, my name is Chris Suhre, and this was my first time attending Adepticon. I just wanted to take a few moments of your time to relate my experiences attending Adepticon and the Crystal Brush competition for the first time. Why did I chose to attend Adepticon? As a miniature painter, I wanted to immerse myself in the work of other painters. To see their creations one on one and have the chance to share ideas and learn. I also wanted the opportunity to reconnect with painter friends I already knew. Finally, I also wanted the opportunity to display my own work. To try and show my ideas and visions. So after Gencon 2016, I made the decision to attend Adepticon and began working on an assortment of pieces. EARLY START AND A WORKSHOP OR TWO I left for Adepticon on Friday after kissing my wife good bye and getting the kids on the bus. It was a slight drive up to Chicago but I managed to arrive by early afternoon. I was fortunate enough to have a room at the Renaissance and checked in with ease. I wanted to get my competition pieces entered as soon as possible fearing I might make a mistake and miss the deadline. The wait to get my Adepticon badge was very short and so within minutes I was already in the hall and at the CMON booth. The crystal brush case was simply awe inspiring. To be honest I don’t know how European competitions compare but I doubt there’s anywhere in the US where you can see so many high-quality pieces in a single area. After dropping off my entries I took time to look through the cases. So many stunning pieces. My head began to fill with ideas for future projects and I had only been here for maybe an hour. I headed back to the painting lounge to meet up with my friends Seth, Dallas, Kat, and Nick. Hugs were exchanged and we began discussing all the projects we had been working on and those that inspired us in the case. Kat and I had the same first class with Russo on atmosphere. To be honest I was expecting something a bit different but the class was still informative and Russo was a great teacher. He was easy to understand and took the time to go around to each student multiple times to review our progress. Soon after the first class I began my second class with Russo on colour variations. He walked us through how he selected hues that could be manipulated from warm to cold and across the colour wheel. For instance, taking a yellow green cloth and manipulating it to a violet thanks to the common blue hue within both colours. TIME FOR SOME SOCIALISING After class, Seth took myself and our friends out for Chicago style pizza at Giordano’s. The food was great. I’ve never really had the thick Chicago style pizza but now I see why people rave about it. Even though the food was great it was the company that made the night special. We finished the night off with beers at a local beer market while we made wild predictions about who would win the crystal brush overall. After having spent the previous night up late talking painting with friends, I awoke Saturday morning excited to see what the day would bring. After grabbing some breakfast, I went off to the vendor hall with some friends. Now, I have little experience with a variety cons. For the most part I’ve attended Warmachine weekend and Gencon on a yearly basis but that’s about it. I found the vendor hall at Adepticon to be just about right. A nice selection of vendors focused on miniature games and miniature painting but without the seas of people I so often encounter at Gencon. Myself and a few friends also went back to peruse the Crystal Brush case and discuss the entries again. While looking at the entries I got to meet Ben Komets and Raffaele Picca for the first time. These are two artists I admire immensely. Since I started trying to up my painting game years ago, these are two artists I have followed intently. Massive voodoo and Ben have made huge impacts on my development as an artist. The chance to meet them, shake their hands, and tell them what their work has meant to me was great. On top of that they both inspected my entries and told me how they enjoyed the Dragon piece. Words like that from artists I admire, well that just made my day. Little did I know the day was going to get even better. ADMIRING THE CABINETS AND TIME FOR ANOTHER MASTERCLASS The rest of the morning was filled with hanging out with fellow painters in the painting lounge. We discussed techniques, various miniature, and paints. We also discussed Dallas’s theory that everything is 50/50. (either something is or it isn’t, do or do not, hence everything is 50/50.) To be surrounded by so many artists, to be exposed to so many different techniques and views, is amazing. In the mid-afternoon, we found out that the pictures of the entries that made first cut were up. It was so exciting to see two of my pieces on there! To see them in the same categories and among artists that I admired wow! But what was even better was seeing so many of my friends also qualify. In particular, seeing my buddy Seth qualify. He had pushed himself so much over the last few months and to see him make it through with his Zelda piece was phenomenal. The next couple of hours were just spent looking at all these gorgeous entries. Going over them with friends. Telling stories about the ups and down’s we had with creating our works of art. In the early evening, I got to start my class with Sergio and Jose. It was a Master
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