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Tiny Terrors: History of Miniature Painting, Painting Process and Why I paint small (Patreon)

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2023-06-07 02:00:02

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2024-05

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I participate in Tiny Terrors every year at the Dark Art Emporium. This year in particular I got carried away. I usually paint pretty small anyways, A typical size is 5x7 inches or smaller. I went for 3x3 inches for this show. I can only show one piece, but I did 7. At the end of the process of painting all those, when I put them in their little frames, I kept getting this strange impulse to hold them and stare at them. That impulse led me to a rabbit hole about this history of miniature painting. In this video I go through my process of painting these. I talk about why I prefer painting small. Then I talk about the history of portrait miniatures.

I apologize about the vertical format for a long video (if it even bothers you.) I wasn't expecting this to turn into such a long video when I was recording the process footage.

Tiny Terrors 666 opens at the Dark Art Emporium on June 10 2023.

The Rabbit Hole

I also realize that I forgot to even touch the world of Artist trading cards. Maybe another video another time.

Some of the artists I looked at

Most of them are from the Tansey Miniatures collection

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Tiny Terrors: painting process, why I paint small, and a history of miniature painting

Dark Art Emporium https://shop.darkartemporium.com/collections/current-show I forgot to even touch the subject of Artist trading cards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist_trading_cards James Gurney “Why do you paint so small” http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2020/12/why-do-you-work-so-small.html https://www.trekell.com/blogs/experience/small-but-mighty-the-enduring-allure-of-miniature-painting “The Enduring Allure of Miniature Painting: Exploring Tiny Masterpieces” Trekell Art Supplies The world of miniature painting from the Tansey miniatures foundation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8lyu0EUe54 Also check out the Tansey Miniatures collection https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection Nicholas Hilliard https://www.wikiart.org/en/nicholas-hilliard Peter Adolf Hall https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/10332 Frederic Dubois https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/11411 Abel Ernst Heinrich https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/10039 Alois von Anreiter https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/10725 Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/10015 Louis Marie Autissier https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/10051 Ignazio Pio Vittoriano Campana https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/10169 Moritz Michael Daffinger https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/10187 Augustin Dubourg https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/10206 Johann Julius Heinsius https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/10339 Jean-François-Marie Huet-Villiers https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/10356 Lady with Mask (Mme Parabère?) https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/10456 Louis Bertin Parant https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/10564 Louis-Lié Périn-Salbreux https://tansey-miniatures.com/en/collection/10583