Miniature Museum: Scaled Scenes with Jaw-Dropping Details
Before special effects went digital with CGI, part of the magic of movie making included artists laboring over tiny scaled-down sets, creating little worlds that look totally real until a ...
Tag: miniature art
Lead Finger: Incredible Miniatures Carved Out of Pencil Tips
Eagle feathers, the folds on Yoda’s robe and individual bricks on iconic buildings are among the impossibly tiny details captured in pencil lead by miniaturist Salivat Fidai. The Russian artist ...
Past Preserved in Paper: Miniatures Document Gentrification
Today, that charming old brick building on the corner might be a market where you can still grab a six-pack at a decent price; within mere months, it could be knocked down for a gleaming ...
Put a Miniature Diorama On It: Amazing Tiny Ring Box Art
A vendor at a market in Paris handed artist Talwst an antique ring box and said, 'I want to see you do something with this.' From that chance encounter has sprung an entire collection of tiny ...
Subtle Street Art: 27 Easy-to-Overlook Urban Enhancements
Just knowing that these tiny urban art installations exist - ranging from tiny figures dangling from ATM machines to utility boxes painted to look like miniature skyscrapers - might just inspire ...
365 Postcards for Ants: Impossibly Tiny Daily Illustrations
The most minuscule details of a floral bouquet, an old-fashioned camera, a jockey on a horse or a VW bus are rendered with incredibly fine paintbrushes to create paintings smaller than a quarter ...
Small World: Mini Wooden Cutouts Take Over the Streets
Life is an adventure for tiny wooden figures navigating the urban world in this miniature art installation series by Joe Iurato. The New Jersey-based street artist creates small spray-painted ...
Paper Architecture: Intricate 3D Sculptures by Ingrid Siliakus
From flat sheets of paper, entire cities emerge, rich in unexpected details like balconies, tiny windows and even little people. Dutch artist Ingrid Siliakus uses an initial 90-degree fold to ...
After Effects: Moldy Miniature Homes Left to Decay into Art
A tiny paper village blooms with a thick, cobwebby coating of multi-colored mold, left to decay just as every structure ever built by man would eventually do if humans were to disappear. Italian ...
Tube Art: Tiny, Magical Worlds Inside Toilet Paper Rolls
We rarely give much thought to the humble toilet paper roll – and why should we? It’s just a piece of cardboard, destined for the recycling bin, a carrier for a necessary but unremarkable ...
