Interview with Rogland Studio. Swedish painter Robert Karlsson is well-known for his phenomenal boxart and competition pieces. As ‘Rogland Studio’ online, you may have seen his amazing large-scale resin models. At Redgrass Creative we love to support the best, so naturally we had to ask Robert about himself and his hobby journey! Find out more by reading on!
I started 2010 so I guess 13 years now =) I started by accident, I found some old miniatures I painted as a kid and I thought it looked like it could be fun, tried and stuck since then =)
Now days I mostly gets inspired by myself, what I mean is if a project goes well and I am happy with the result then I get inspired to paint more and push myself. But of course a lot of artist like Brom, Jones, Franzetta, A Smith, P Bonner inspire me.
That is for someone else to answer, lol, but I hope…interesting, great composition of colors, understanding of light and harmony.
Not really, I was interested in art when I was young and I had a really good grade in art in elementary school but that’s it!
Today I have my own small house close to where I have my studio.
I guess that must be the miniature I painted in 2018- Asura! It won best of fantasy in Monte MSS 2018 and best of show at Hussar.
“I think the best technique is what works for you, I learned and mastered most of them and I use some of them for different purposes, one suits a shape or area better then another, so I change technique without even thinking about what I use, freedom =)”
I often think I should paint a miniature twice because I enjoyed the process but in the end I am often so tired of it so I wouldn’t consider it by free will =)
I used a wet pallet since I started basically, first two years I discovered and tried to understand a lot of things I needed for this hobby and I early tried a wet palette, this felt much better for several reasons, it takes a lot longer for the paint to dry so I can paint without refilling colors on there.
Don’t do it! Lol…I don’t think you should do it because you decide to be one…to be honest its hard work and more stressful then you can believe, you have to have a strong mind so you don’t lose the joy of painting for relaxation and for fun, for me it came by itself when I got better, I got some requests and I tried commission painting, I didn’t like it at all first but later I got into it the good way.
So do it if you have the chance but don’t beg or try to sell your work just for the sake of it.
For me its not so much about the brand and such but…Vallejo has been with me for many years and I trust their products to work for me in any situation, also Kimera Kolors.
My favorite ones that I use but also tweak a lot with different mixing is these because they are desaturated most of them, this way I can add colors to saturate in a later stage:
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