Well maybe I'm a mini-artist...except I'm tall.

"Recently there has been much written about minimal art, but I have not discovered anyone who admits to doing this kind of thing. There are other art forms around called primary structures, reductive, rejective, cool, and mini-art. No artist I know will own up to any of these either. Therefore I conclude that it is part of a secret language that art critics use when communicating with each other through the medium of art magazines. Mini-art is best because it reminds one of miniskirts and long-legged girls. It must refer to very small works of art. This is a very good idea. Perhaps “mini-art” shows could be sent around the country in matchboxes. Or maybe the mini-artist is a very small person, say under five feet tall."

 Sol Lewitt, "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art"

Tiny, tiny, dirty pictures

Hello my wonderful friends!  So I finally got around to photographing the miniatures that I started working on up at ChaNorth (which I'm actually returning to on Wednesday...it's a long story, I'll explain later).  So here's what you've all be waiting for!

Tiny mementos! Painted with very tiny paintbrushes on very tiny pieces of ivory!

 

This image is a little bit bigger than a quarter (32 mm)

(43 mm x 30 mm)

(75 mm x 50 mm)

(65 mm round)

(75 mm x 50 mm)

(95 mm x 65 mm)

All of them are watercolor on ivory (except the last one which you've already seen, which is watercolor on ivorine).  Stay posted for many, many more cellphone captured whispers of sweet nothings loving rendered and preserved for all time.  Because I promise, there are many, many more to come...