Radek Pituch in the spotlight
Today's interviewee is Radek Pituch. Thank you for sharing in.
Spotlight are short interviews to introduce some of the artists here at Putty&Paint.
Who are you? Tell us a bit about you.
My name is Radek Pituch, age 28, I was born and do a living in Warsaw, Poland. I studied law and now work as a public servant at the Mazovian Voyvodinship. I always liked arts, in the past done a lot of drawing and painting using water colors and oils. My adventure with the hobby started at the age of 7, when my father bought me a Matchbox 1/72 scale Hurricane, what a kit it was back then! The years passed and I changed my interests to armor and diorama builing. In 2008 I started a modelling blog, in 2009 I started publishing in different foreign magazines. In 2012 I got into cooperation with Canfora Publishing and Rinaldi Studio Press and participated in their recent modelling books. From 2009 onwards I started attending local polish but also international shows finally, gaining more reputation over the years, to be invited for judging in different categories and run some seminars at the dutch SMC modelling event and Belgian Scale Modellers Convention lin late 2013.
What are your favorite tools, and why do you use them?
For painting my miniatures nowadays I use mostly acrylics, Tamiya, Vallejo and Lifecolor brand. Although from time to time I also use the good old Modelmaster or Humbrol enamels (for certain purpouses) as well as Talens and Winsor & Newton artistic oils. I prefer acrylics for their ease of use and odourlessnes (well except Tamiya ones). For painting I use Daler Rowney and Kozlowski paintbrushes. As for sculpting I prefer Magic Sculp and Greenstuff (Duro). In the past I tried Miliput but MS suits me better for my basic sculpting material. For bigger sculptures, from 1/24 onwards I also use Chavant clays (Autostyle and NSP). For sculpting I use simple tools, actually most of them homemade out of toothpics or old paintrbush sticks but also some dental tools if needed.
How would you describe your own style?
Seeing Calvin Tan’s style of painting or Bill Horan’s style of sculpting back in the years I was always under a kind of influence of these two but I actually developed a style of my own, some claim it’s a bit of comic style of painting but for me yet realistic, this also considers my sculpting style.
Show us your workspace. Do not clean it.
I have limited space for my workbench, I organised a small table where I build miniatures. Lately I modified it to be able to take instant photos of my current WIP since I publish a lot in different modelling magazines and books.
Who influences your work and what inspires you?
As I mentioned earlier, my biggest inspiration for miniature sculpting and painting are Calvin Tan and Bill Horan, which I value the most for their ability to work with colors and sculpting materials to achieve realism and lifelikness of their pieces of modelling art. As for AFV miniatures most of my influence comes from the well known artists who influenced the whole modern modelling world and that is Adam Wilder, Mig Jimenez, Mike Rinaldi, Mario Eens. As it comes to diorama stuff I always liked works of Per Olav Lund and also the master of the detail - Volker Bembennek. Most of these guys are my friends now.
What’s you current favourite music/movie/series you enjoy while working?
It depens on the mood but I like jazz music as well as good old Black Sabbath to listen while working on my models.
Show and tell us what you are currently working on or what you recently finished?
My current WIP is a small vignette depicting a scene from the failed Dieppe raid from summer 1942 for a new modelling book which should be available this summer from the Swedish published Canfora Grafisk Form&Forlag. On the picture you can see the figures that I work on at the moment.
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