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]]>Loginova is a self-taught artist from Russia, and she used to work in a bank before deciding to explore her artistic side. She always dreamed about doing something creative, and she decided to explore her love for miniatures by creating fairy-tale shell houses.
Walnut shells take center stage in Loginova’s art, but they wouldn’t be the same without all the miniature objects she places inside them. Her tiny toys and miniature animals are made out of many different materials, ranging from hand-carved wood to yarn and cotton.
Loginova recently mastered the art of soldering electronic circuits, and she’s using her new skill to bring some light into her walnut shells. They look magical even without real lights, but this addition has proven to be a huge hit in her Etsy shop Tiny Fairy Garden.
The main idea behind her walnut shells is that they’re so tiny even fairies could live inside them. This adds to their magical feel, especially when she fills them with tiny objects that look straight out of a fairy tale.
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]]>Temese has a day job as a technical director at an animation studio. When he gets back home, he spends hours researching the old manuals and literature and looking at the photos of the vintage computers so he can recreate them in his miniatures.
Temese is so dedicated to his project because of his passion for early computing and fascination with the inner workings of old technology.
“The desire to create intricate and detail work, finding ways of making the most accurate miniature possible is what drives me,” he explains on his website.
His miniatures, ranging from 1:10 to 1:16 scale, are mostly made with polystyrene sheets and polymer clay. They are processed with sandpaper and coated with paint to receive a realistic look.
Because they are so detailed and intricate, Temese can take months to finish a single miniature. Some of his projects even took more than half a year to be completed.
Temese shares his works on social media and offers them for purchase to interested collectors and vintage technology enthusiasts. Check out more of them below.
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]]>Troy Schmidt is a pottery maker and teacher, and he’s been making his miniature wheel-thrown porcelain and stoneware for over two decades. He’s no stranger to working on full-sized pottery, but creating 1-inch scales is a much bigger challenge.
“The process of throwing miniatures is very much the same as throwing life-sized pottery except Troy contacts the clay with his fingertips rather than his entire hand and all of the motion of his fingertips is contained within a volume not much greater than one cubic inch,” the artist explains on his official website.
Schmidt enjoys making everything from tiny jars, vases, pitchers, and vases to makeshift gardens and art studios. His ceramics made it to many pottery magazines over the years, and he even taught ceramics in Santa Barbara. Schmidt divides his time between life-size pottery and miniatures but prefers smaller pieces because he finds them most rewarding and fulfilling.
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]]>Since 2011, Tanaka has been making these impressive dioramas, creating a new scene every single day! Ranging from simple to incredibly intricate, these dioramas are photographed and placed them on his website, which he has called his “Miniature Calendar.”
How did he come up with the idea to make miniature scenes? He simply saw ordinary things from a different perspective. As he writes on his website, “Broccoli and parsley may sometimes look like a forest of trees, and tree leaves floating on the surface of water may sometimes look like little boats.”
Tanaka’s motivation was to change the way people look at everyday objects and necessities. He believes that “Everyday occurrences seen from a miniature perspective can bring us lots of fun thoughts.” And boy, is he right—we’ll never see these objects the same way again.
His works are known around the world, from his exhibitions in Japan and other countries, as well as his multiple social media accounts and his website. Follow his daily posts to add some miniature enjoyment to your life every day.
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]]>Loots is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and her love for miniature art was born in 2013. That’s the year when she started her art project “365 Paintings for Ants”, and this cheeky title was meant to reference the itsy-bitsy size of her creations, which are smaller than a thumbnail.
In almost a decade to come, we’ve seen Loots create tiny masterpieces depicting everything from animals and plants to everyday objects, but her collection “Travelling Ants” remains one of her biggest hits. These paintings show her depict some of the places she visited over the years, ranging from Chicago and Los Angeles to Paris and London.
Loots’ travel sketches are often accompanied by short stories and the dates when they were created and they happen to be a crucial part of her work because she feels very sentimental about marking the passage of time.
“I’ve always wanted to keep a journal and I’ve just always loved the idea of marking every day and remembering where you were and what you did and just really grasping hold of it and putting it down,” she told CBS News.
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]]>Tanaka has been a miniature artist for nearly a decade. He typically uses common household objects and this time, his focus was on face masks that have become necessary over the past year.
“Broccoli and parsley may sometimes look like a forest of trees, and tree leaves floating on the surface of water may sometimes look like little boats. Everyday occurrences seen from a miniature perspective can bring us lots of fun thoughts,” the artist writes on his website. We’re impressed by his creativity and the way he sees the world.
When laid down flat, face masks resemble swimming pools and running lanes, which Tanaka cleverly used to achieve amazing effect with as few objects as possible.
Definitely check out his Instagram account (with 3 million followers) to see more of his previous and future work. It will inspire you to see the world from a different perspective and perhaps have fun doing something similar.
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]]>Born in Minsk, Belarus, Brodsky moved to the US in 1991 where she studied at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, before earning her MFA at the New York Academy of Art. Currently based in New York City, Brodsky admits she feels most comfortable painting small-scaled paintings.
“When I paint small I’m like a fish in water,” she exclaimed once in an interview with Whitehot Magazine. “I am much less comfortable painting on a larger scale, and very few of my large works hold up as well as the miniatures.”
Her most recent series, Secret Life of Trees, is dedicated entirely to trees, based on photographs, stories, and artifacts submitted by her friends and family. Brodsky’s painting technique relies on a combination of classical oil painting techniques—mostly 15th century Northern Renaissance methods and 17th-century Venetian techniques—with contemporary materials such as mylar and plexiglass.
But her process also relies on some creative intuition. “For me, color has always been intuitive,” says Brodsky. “When I was studying, the things I had trouble with had more to do with drawing, proportion, perspective, anatomy, architecture. I feel like I am still catching up and trying to master a lot of those things. But color has always come organically. I never think about what colors to mix, and how to achieve a certain effect, I just let the paint play together on my palette.”
In addition to being an artist and curating, Brodsky also teaches and runs an “Instagram for Artists” seminar where she teaches artists how to harness the power of the Instagram algorithm. Scroll down to see some of her work.
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]]>“One of my favorite mini scenes I have ever made was a bunch of Halloween treats in the kitchen,” said Growden in an interview with the Daily Mini, noting how she made ghost and pumpkin cookies, orange and black cupcakes, candied apples, and a tiny bag of candy corn. “I think scenes look best when you add as much detail and variety as possible,” she explains quite rightly (with miniatures – it’s all in the details).
According to Growden, her interest in miniatures actually stems from her love of fake food. Making complicated dishes in bite-size proportions is not only easier, says Growden, but is also a way of preserving her meals forever and ever. Talk about having the cake and eating it too…
“My earliest memory with miniatures is when I was just a kid,” Growden recalls. “I would make tiny pies and sandwiches for my American Girl dolls, using instructions from one of the American Girl craft books. The pies were made with seed beads, felt, and bottle caps. The sandwiches were made with cork board and rubber bands. I loved how the materials mimicked real food.”
Show her some love on Instagram.
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]]>For miniature creator Marina Paredes, the love for tiny interiors began when she was just a child, obsessed with Polly Pockets. “The first miniature I made was when I was around 10 years old,” she recalled in an interview with The Daily Mini. “I made it with toothpicks and it was a little house with small furniture. I remember that in order to open and close the door, I used a piece of cloth. I still keep it with much affection.”
Miniature wooden housesThese days, her work is mainly made of wood of various types, including soft wood like balsa and hard wood like linden. “I like to use it because it is a very versatile material,” she notes. For added interior details, Paredes relies on clay. The finished piece is then painted using acrylic paint. “I do not work with a specific scale,” she admits. “Most of the time I’m guided more by sizes that are appealing to me.”
Her inspiration for her work comes from many sources. “I am inspired by architecture (shapes, textures, techniques, materials), design, colorful objects (which inspire me to feel joy), symmetry, and the decoration (directly from which I ‘feed’ my creativity to create my miniatures),” she lists.
With an impressive following online, her admiration for all things small is clearly infectious. See for yourself!
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“When I was 7 years old, my dad built me a dollhouse,” she shared with The Daily Mini, “and what I remember most about it was playing with the interior design, rather than any make-believe!”. Little did she know that her early passion would evolve into successful careers in interior design and fashion, only to come back, 20 years later to the very begining.
She now shares her passion for all things miniature through her buzzing Instagram page (with 60k followers to date). Those include anything from tiny wine bottles to whole bookshelves. “Working in 1:12 scale is an exciting challenge,” admits Strzinek. It also makes for a playful Instagram account! Take a peek:
This boy is working hard 
& 
in the off season…. the dude loves a blue cold one after practice. . . 
ISO mini seamstress / dollmaker!!! I would love to make mini letterman jackets for my kids… DM if interested in the project. . . Gatorades by 
@cspykersminiatures . . . #texasfootball #gatorade #miniature #electrolytes #dollshouse #tinythings #domestikate #miniatures #oneinchscale #playingwithscale
neighborhood fireworks 
display this weekend. 
Spaghetti & Meatballs with 
Salad & Cabernet 
for the win!
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