Miniature Movie Sets and Realistic Sculptures

Company the Musée Cinéma et Miniature, was created by miniaturist Artist Dan Ohlmann.  These Hyper-Realistic miniature sculptures and recreations are built by him and the other talented artists that form his team.  They are listed with each image.  We have also included restoration works, that have been undertaken by Musée Cinéma et Miniature, like the Capitol building from Independence Day and the Alien Queen from the movie franchise, Alien.  Enlarge the images to see all of the amazing and realistic details in the models.

Tiny Miniature Bonsai Trees and Miniature Origami Leafs

If you like origami and Bonsai trees, you will love this post.

Miniature Paintings Commemorating Special Occasions

Lorraine Loots started her painting marathon in 2013, setting out to produce a mini painting for each day of the year.  It was a beautiful project that saw her admires and followers suggest paintings for dates that were special to them.  When 2014 arrived and her city was designated World Design Capital, she decided to extend the her project by a further year and an extra 365 miniature Art pieces.  Now in 2015 she is loving the process so much that she is just continuing.  Loots covers, in her paintings, a multitude of subjects, we have included a few below with a video, in which she explains how the project came about.

Miniature Animal Sculptures that fit on your Hand

Self taught artist ReveMiniatures loves to make 1/12 scale (12 times smaller than the real thing) miniature animals.  The size is not the only amazing thing, it's that he manages to create realistic expressions on his small models.  Reve mostly lists as his or her materials: polymer clay, natural fibres (yarn) and hand painted details.  We have put together a collection of animals for you that includes Cats, Dogs, Birds and Wild Animals.

Star Wars & other Miniature Paintings and drawings

Karen Libecap has been immersed in art since she was born, as her mother is a painter and wood carver.  Libecap owns and operates her own photography studio and loves to express her art in may different mediums such as watercolor, acrylics, clay and wax.  Today we are going to have a look at her miniature Drawings and Paintings that for their size, contain a lot of detail.

Miniature Sculpture that look Real

Guild of Miniature Artisans Artist and Sculptor Kerri Pajutee makes her sculptures look like the real thing, just a bit shrunken down.  This is how Pajutee describes her miniature sculptures "freehand polymer clay over delicate wire armature, dressed in permanent coats of applied natural fibers".  The main reason for her love of miniatures, is that you can create tiny worlds that contain special memories or recreations of personal encounters, that are always there to act as reminders.

Miniature Food

Incredible miniature foods. They vary from savoury to sweet dishes and staged in a lot of different ways.  Stéphanie Kilgast has been very busy, it would be very difficult to put all the images that are on the site as there are so many.  The match gives you a sense of scale.  These are not just miniature creations they are very well coloured shaded and detailed.  Apart from a Dolls house let me know how you would us these miniatures.

Miniature Calendar Worlds

Japanese Artist Tatsuya Tanaka has been creating these diorama setups on a daily basis since April of 2011.  His titles carry in most cases a double meaning that are enacted by his small models, using every day products.  As you can imagine, there are a lot of pictures to choose from in 3+ years of work, these are some of our favourites.

Architectural Miniature Worlds Inside Glass Test Tubes

Dutch Freelance Designer, Art Director and Animator Rosa de Jong creates art in many different mediums, today we are going to focus on her handmade tiny, little, miniature worlds that come into existence, inside glass test tubes.  For each of the miniatures you have, a detail and a work in progress, that will allow you to see how small they are, with references to gauge their scales and see how they are put together.

Miniature Wire Bonsai Tree Sculptures

Artist and Sculptor Ken To aka (KenToArt) has a degree in accounting, (Not expecting that?).  He originally started by growing and shaping real Bonsai Trees, for which he became quite famous.  He then started practising on these wire sculptures, to perfect his skills and try new designs.  Within a short time, he became just as famous with his sculptures, with collectors requesting his pieces from all around the world.  Which do you prefer these wire sculptures or the real trees?  Let us know below in the comment section.

Tiny Miniature Pottery Vases, Teapots and Bowls

American Pottery maker Jon Almeda from Almeda Pottery tells us on his site that, for years he pushed and strived go as big as he could with his pottery.  One day when he was in a book store, he came across a book that was called "Creating Ceramic Miniatures".  From that day onwards, his work has changed completely, though he still throws on his big wheel, he now produces tiny pots and vases that are as detailed and proportioned as the corresponding normal sized ones.  Videos below will show him at work, it is amazing...

Celebrity Detailed Micro - Miniature Drawings

Hash Patel is an amazing artist that is so proficient at drawing, what are considered normal size images, that he is now applying a huge amount of detail on these really small drawings.  We have added some of the enlarged drawings, so that you can appreciate even more, the small ones.

Miniature Food for Dolls House

Miniature food for use in Doll Houses.  These very detailed and small sculptures.  These intricate pieces come from the hard work of Kim aka fairchildart.

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Dolls House Miniature Clay Food Art

This is the second time we feature Kim Clough aka (fairchildart) an Artist with an amazing eye for detail and Miniaturist by day, Medical Lab Scientist by night.  She tells us how she started in 2008, with a book from Sue Heaser, "Making Doll's House Miniatures with Polymer Clay", in which there are many easy to follow tutorials, covering many different types of miniatures.  Now she uses reference pictures, of real food from different angles, to create her tiny replicas.  She buys the cutlery and the dishes, with each clay sculpture taking between 1 and 3 hours to complete, depending on the complexity.

Confronting our Lives in Miniature Sculptures

Frank Kunert is a Model Maker and a Photographer who does not use Photoshop to enhance his pictures.  Kunert is deliberate in his desire not to make his models and therefore his pictures, too polished and precise.  There is a lot hidden in these little snapshots, representing reality, sometimes humorous or satiric and sometimes the absurdity of the problems we live through in our daily lives.  You have to pay special attention, to see what hides in plain site  (look at the balconies...)

Miniature Drawings of Human and Environment Struggle

Amazingly small and detailed drawings by US Artist Kyle Leonard, who has a passion for the environment and the problems it is facing, at the hands of Humanity.  Leonard hopes to help raise the issue by stippling and cross hatching his way across many hundreds of thousands of these segments and dots to from these beautiful images.  The images are not that big, given the detail involved, so we have added as many larger scale details as possible and a GIF animation for the Octopus.  Leonard can spend between 6 to 100 hours per drawing, depending on the complexity.

Miniature Drawings Interacting with Real Life

Christian Watson who is part of popular and up and coming company 1924us, creates these lovely miniature drawings.  The clever part, is not only their size but, that images on the paper interact with real-life items, like pencils and scissors.  These lovely drawings, are packed with details, making them very interesting and highlighting the skill of the artist.  Press the images to enlarge them, if you want to see more detail.

Miniature Photo Studio Building from the 1900s

Turkish artist Ali Alamedy, spent 9 moths on this project, building from scratch every single piece.  He has had to do a lot of research, in order to create a Photographic Studio, which could have existed, in the 1900s.  To bring this room to life, Alamedy has had to build, paint, all sorts of materials that include materials like wood, plastic, copper, paper and more.  We have included below a lot of pictures so that we can all appreciate the amount of work that went into this Miniature Diorama.

Surreal Miniature Worlds in Everyday Objects

Kendal Murray’s miniature sculptures create tiny worlds using every day objects like glass teapots, grass-covered purses, mirrored makeup compacts, shoes etc.  In this post we are covering a mixture of two of her exhibitions, Flights of Fancy and The Collector.  The compositions and the titles she gives them, resemble the soothing feel and look of the old nursery rimes, children's stories and the surreal imagery they came with.

Miniature Food Rings

Fun rings of miniature food from Kawaii Cute Miniature Food Rings.  They also make other types of jewellery including earrings pendants and Japanese jewellery.  The prices for the amount of work and detail seems to be very reasonable. 
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