This is my last one for time being.Tomorrow... back to school again and my miniatures have to wait... Usually, I face the last day of holidayswith enthusiasm, but this time I feel I neede...
And another landscape, this time a fishing dock. Is still pastel pencil and has 5,5 cm x 4,6cm without frame.
This weekend the weather was cloudy. Finally the rain arrives after a long dry winter. I love the light through the clouds. I wish I was able to show it in my paintings. Tomorrow Ill start the fram...
The frame is ready! I made it in walnut, natural finished with a thin coat of beewax.
The painted area has 3,7 cm x 5,0 cm. The frame measures are 5,7 cm x 7,0 cm. This is the smalest I ever painted. The biggest problem is to keep pastel pencils thin enough to draw hands and face det...
I keep on trying pastel work! Slowly!!! I dont have the time I need to develope tecnics and adapt my skills as a full scale painter to a miniature work. This weekend I had a few hours. I decided to t...
Its not so easy to paint this scale but here is my last work. Its a pastel with 4,5cmx5,5cm After cutting the glass and building the frame I was pleased with the result. May be its de...
If you follow the link below you can find the selected IGMA Artisans 2011. http://www.igma.org/recognitio n/artisan.html
Now, in holidays from school I got a little time to take a few photos of the pieces I submit last April to the IGMA Committee. They took a long time to be back at home. After being presented to the j...
The Artisan Selection Committee met on April 30, 2011 to evaluate Artisans submissions and I proudly inform all my readers that my membership in the Guild has been elevated to that of Artisan member ...
The idea is not original but I wanted to do it my way. From the structure to the tinniest detail I enjoyed the pleasure of hand making all of them, engaging myself in a kind of game. At same time I t...
These are not miniatures but I had to share this amazing work with you! Click the link below. It will open a Word file with lots of photos from a Russian, an American and some o...
Finally I decide to try a very simple electric work. When I build “Villa Joana” (my grand daughter’s dollhouse), I had the first contact with electrical materials. In the beginning I was a little n...
As you have noticed my last posts are months out of date. But this one I couldnt miss. Its not the first time I refer my friend Ana Maria Morgado. She is an amazing miniaturist as well as very good a...
Published by MINIATURAS - Construcción & Coleccionismo, nr 151 (July/August 2010) you can follow the building procedure of this birdcage called by the editor " La Jaula de la Felicidad" w...
Another article published by this revue last Summer -issue nr. 151 Click on the photo or increase the zoom to read. Im sorry, its written in Spanish and I suppose the automatic transl...
This is the only photo I have of the show. I shared a table with my friend Ana Maria Morgado. Take a look at her Blog. http://www.am-ambientes-em-min iatura.blogs.sapo.pt/ She has an exceptional wor...
Well, "new" is a funny way to call them!!! They were new last November!!! Those pieces were made to present at Tom Bishop Show in Madrid. This time I decide to choose Arts & Crafts style....
It’s impossible!!! My professional life doesn’t allow me time for Blogs! Everyday I must choose between making miniatures or actualise this Blog! Miniatures win always, of co...
After so many months without posting I found all different!!! The interface is not the same and I had to check everything before I was sure that it works. But here are the news. Once my granddaughter...
A Dolls House for my grand daughter Joana. She is now 7 years old and we live far from each other - about 300km between us. I think she is in a good age to get the "virus" of miniatures. Tw...
Another team work! This time, Gisela Silvestre and I, we adapted the design from a traditional Portuguese carpet. It's from Arraiolos a small and very beautiful village in the center-south of Portuga...
As I've told before I'm a teacher in a regular school in Algarve (south of Portugal). I teach all kinds of visual arts and artistic technologies. My pupils are children from 10 to 14 years old, usu...
and that all your dreams come true!
with love, money, health and... miniatures!!! Thanks to CRAZY.FRANKENSTEIN.COM for the lovely image
... for a special friend. We (me and Ana Maria Morgado) wanted to offer one of our miniatures to a friend we have in common. We thought that a team work would result better and could be better apre...
A tea table inspired by oriental design, black teinted and hand painted A flower table Art Nouveau style Two birdcages, a decorative plate inspired by the portuguese pottery of Alcobaça, and a ...
After three weeks of a well deserved rest here I am again. I have no special news. By this time all of you know probably more about Tom Bishop Show than myself. In spite of being there I didn't see ...
Within a month, next 14th and 15th November I'll be present at my first Miniatures Show as a dealer! It will be in Madrid at Tom Bishop's Show, a very well known show which means a great responsabil...
Again another British "coup". Because, according to everybody's judgment, they are accountable for the bird-cage trend - without birds in them - to have in one's home. This must, undo...
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