The Compendium · Painters
The people behind the work we point to — commission painters, competition entrants and teachers we rate. Each page is a small dossier and a set of links straight back to where they post. No rankings, no affiliate tags; just painters worth following.
Brazil's best-known painting educator — Putty&Paint top-50, two pieces chosen for Verko's Vault, his own signature paint line — who built the country's first free painting course. His Dark Summoner shows the signature move: light and atmosphere carrying the whole mood of a piece, not just decorating it.
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A Vancouver commission painter and teacher whose display pieces — Magnus the Red, an OSL "God Light" jump captain, Kragnos — read like illustrations rather than paint jobs. He films every technique he uses, so the tutorials give away exactly how the gallery work is done.
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A solo painter of twenty years and a Golden Demon finalist, working 40k and Age of Sigmar from single figures up to very large-scale pieces. Every month he breaks that display-standard work down into step-by-step tutorials — the surest sign the minis are genuinely his own.
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A London painter who treats every model as a chance to try something: a blue-and-gold Space Marine Lieutenant after a workshop with Andy Wardle, an Aeldari Warlock built on smooth blends, a Critical Role bust painted purely for the freehand practice. The through-line is a painter deliberately widening his own range.
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An Australian competition painter who medals at Monte San Savino, now judges ArcOpen, and hosts the Sydney Painters Guild. His narrative dioramas — a Flesh Tearers-versus-Tyranids clash took People's Choice at ArcOpen 2023 — collide two armies into a single readable moment.
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An independent painter-teacher who works on camera across YouTube, Patreon and TikTok. His Bastion-inspired Overgrown Necrons weather centuries of green over ancient metal, and a chrome non-metallic Fire Hawk shows he will teach the hard techniques as readily as the fast ones.
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A hand-brush painter with official box-art credits for BigChild Creatives. His Ork warboss Mozrog Skragbad, built up on a custom scenic base, reads as a whole scene rather than a model on a plinth — the display-grade centrepiece work that earns the box-art commissions.
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A single-faction obsessive: a hand-painted Tyranid collection built since 2001, with models from every era of the range gathered in one place. It is the kind of two-decade dedication to a single army that is rarer than any competition medal.
An Athens painter and Golden Demon UK finalist with some 600 commissions behind him. His Jain Zar keeps the paint honest through all that movement, and the clean, realistic finish on his Dark Angels is the register his commission work sits in.
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A 40k and Age of Sigmar painter who documents the actual craft — the paints, the brushes, the conversions. His Captain Titus, headswapped with a Stormcast Praetor and rebased, is sold as a character rather than another Captain; the Karazai dragon is the portfolio's display-scale showpiece.
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