Maple Palette 2027
A Canadian miniature painting event.
Competition, workshops, hobby events, vendors, and a community built around miniature art.
What Maple Palette is about
A painting-first event built around competition, learning, and community.
Planning is underway for Maple Palette 2027. Competition, workshops, hobby events, vendors, and community programming will return, with confirmed details posted as they’re announced.
Built by painters, for painters — serious enough for display artists, welcoming enough for your first competition.
Choose your path
New visitor? Start with what you care about.
Competition, workshops, hobby events, galleries, and event information each have a clear home so visitors can get where they need to go quickly.
Enter or understand the competition.
Open format, categories, judging criteria, registration, medals, People’s Choice, and Best in Show.
Learn from artists and teachers.
See the current workshop lineup, skill levels, times, and ticket information as classes are announced.
Paint, kitbash, experiment, and socialize.
Hobby events give visitors hands-on ways to paint, build, experiment, and meet other hobbyists throughout the day.
Painting competition
Show your best work and grow alongside other painters.
Maple Palette’s open-format competition is designed around personal growth, strong judging, and a positive community atmosphere. Artists bring work they are proud of and receive recognition through medals, trophies, sponsor prizing, People’s Choice, and Best in Show.
Hobby energy
Paint, build, experiment, and take part.
Timed painting, team colour challenges, community projects, and kitbashing give visitors plenty to do throughout the event.
Mystery Mini Madness
Pull a random mini, trade or plan your approach, then paint under a timer. The result might be a troll, a fairy, or something else entirely.
Event detailsTonal War: The Great Brush-Off
Artists divide into warm and cool colour teams, then compete for strongest overall impact. Bragging rights included.
Event detailsBust Painting Event
A timed bust painting challenge built around creativity, fast decisions, and a display-worthy sculpt.
Event detailsWorkshops
Leave with better tools, not just more photos.
Workshops are a major reason to attend, with classes, teachers, skill levels, and ticket details announced as planning progresses.
Painting Studio · New
Build your next colour scheme in Pigment Quest.
Generate harmonious palettes, explore highlights and shadows, check grayscale values, fine-tune colours, and share a scheme.
Past events
See Maple Palette in action.
Painters, workshops, vendors, competition tables, and candid moments from previous events.
Next step
Maple Palette 2027 is on the way.
Date, venue, tickets, workshops, and partner information will be posted as details are confirmed.