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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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]]>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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]]>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.”
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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.”
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]]>“It was by accident that I came up with the idea of creating these micro scale clay dolls. I just wondered to what extent I could reduce the size while keeping my own style of clay art. Currently 5mm diameter is sort of my comfort zone,” the clay artist told Living It.
Some of his works are as little as 2mm and it takes one day for Fujii to finish a single miniature artwork. Check out his amazing creations below.
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