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Day Trip to Portarlington with Port Phillip Ferries. Daily from Melbourne Docklands. Beach, wineries, eateries, miniature railway, playgrounds

Sydney-based artist Catherine Nelson refers to herself as a painter with a camera, in that she doesn’t see the world as a photographer does but instead uses photos as a medium with which she creates these fantastic miniature worlds. Each work is comprised of hundreds of photographs which she digitally stitches together, drawing from an extensive background in visual special effects having worked on such films as Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter and 300. Of her work Nelson says: When I embraced the medium of photography, I felt that taking a picture that represented only what was within the frame of the lens wasn’t expressing my personal and inner experience of the world around me. More

BestSeller! Tiny~small~mini glass flowers approximately 1/2" in diameter; see size reference in photos. Individually handmade lampwork flowers. Miniature glass flower headpins in a light blue transparent glass and light green transparent around base. These are approximately 1/2" in diameter (please refer to photos). 👉 I make these individually on my torch by heating a color glass rod into a ball between the size of a PEA to peanut M&M on the end of 22-gauge stainless steel wire, then press, squeeze, mush, pinch and pull into the desired shape; they go directly into a temperature-controlled kiln to properly anneal and harden. 🎁 These are great for jewelry as well as miniature settings, wedding bouquet or window, shelf, curio or desk displays. They make a perfect gift to say: Thank you, I love you, Thinking of you, Sorry for your loss, or simply... Have a great day! 👉 Default wire is 22 guage stainless steel wire (good for tarnish resistance and low-level allergy reaction). If you need longer wire, one option is to wrap them with floral tape to a longer wire or skewer. Take care manipulating the wire next to the glass. 🏺Vase display: Time to have some fun "junkin' in search for the perfect display vase. Search for mini vases, candle holder, small liquor flutes, etc. I have a small glass bottle that works perfect. Fill with sand, paint, decorate with ribbon, etc. 👉 As with any handmade items, irregularities occur naturally as each batch of glass rods vary, as well as each flower which adds to the beauty and character. 😊 I do my best to represent the true size and colors. I photograph them on my studio workbench with LED lights mounted on my ceiling and use my Samsung tablet. I do not manipulate the photo except to crop or reduce the size. So far, the photos seem very true to the product colors, but may vary depending on your device. 😊 📽️ How to use these flowers in a taller vase Video link: https://youtu.be/4DMZNKrMELE ⏲️ SPECIAL REQUESTS can be easily done by sending me a message, in which we can then create a custom order. This may add one to two weeks to the processing time. I can accommodate your wire length from 2"- 5".

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Today I've been trying to make some 1:12 scale pipes. I saw a wonderful tutorial using styrene rods. Since I didn't have any at home I decided to try making them with things I already had. After finishing the first few pipes I was amazed by how good they looked and so I decided to share my technique with you. So without further ado.... Miniature Steampunk Pipe Tutorial I would just like to point out here that this is only one way of making pipes and I certainly didn't discover anything new. I'm sure there are a lot of other great tutorials out there but this is the way I made the pipes you see on the picture and for anyone else who wants to try this I decided to share my technique. The reason I like these technique so much is that you can make them from items most of us have at home. You will need: - straws - glue - scissors - scalpel - brush - an old rag - 4 mm wide strips of paper (I printed mine out but you can easily just mark them with a ruler) - black acrylic paint - copper patina *optional* (I decided I wanted copper pipes but if you want them to look different just pick the desired colour) These are the colours I used - plain acrylic colour in black and copper patina. First decide what kind of pipe you would like to make. Cut your straws to the desired length. Unless you wish to make a broken pipe you will need at least two bends which means two straws. Bend the straws. You have to play around with the corner to get it at a 90 degree angle. Next cut a strip of paper. It doesn't really matter how wide the strip will be. We need this to help keep both straws together. Roll the strip together just wide enough to fit into the straws. If you're having trouble rolling the paper use a toothpick and roll the paper around the toothpick. Try not to glue it together at the end so that when you insert it in the straw it will expand a bit and stick to the walls. Put some glue in both ends of the straws where you want them to connect. Insert the roll first on one side of the straw and connect the other straw. Like I said, it's better not to glue the roll together to allow it to expand. It doesn't matter if it looks messy since it won't even be seen. You can still see how the pieces are connected, but not for long. Leave to dry. Now cut the 4 mm wide strips of paper. For this particular pipe you will need four. You can always make these strips a different width for different designs. Start wrapping the paper strips around the pipes. Pipes usually have rings where they are connected, which is at every bend. Decide where you want to put the rings and start gluing. I suggest coating about 2 cm of your paper strip with glue and start wrapping. Then put a dot of glue half way through and then again at the end. I don't think you would need to glue the entire strip but it would work just the same. My pipe has all the rings and is ready for painting. Notice that I put a ring where we connected the two straws. It's a nice way to cover the gap. If you don't want the ring as low you could always just cut the straw closer to the bend. Paint the entire surface with black acrylic paint. You could probably use spray paint instead but I just used regular acrylic paint and a brush. Leave it to dry completely. Next add a coat of your choice of colour. As I said I wanted copper pipes. I didn't have any acrylic paint in copper but I did have some patina so I just used that. Now is the time to decide what kind of look you want for your pipes. If you want them shiny and new then just paint the desired colour and you're done. As it turns out I wanted old dirty pipes. I applied the patina quite heavily but the black paint still showed through. Since I wanted dirty pipes it wasn't a problem. A close-up of the pipes. Now it's time to make them dirty. Fun! After adding two washes of black acrylic paint this is how they look. Dilute a bit of black paint in water and start painting. Have a rag ready and blot off most of the paint. Leave it to dry completely and repeat the process until you get the desired look. I did two washes but didn't blot off the second one quite as heavily. If looks quite different from the other close-up, right? I love that it looks dirty and used but you can always finish it any way you like. One thing I still want to try is adding rust to pipes. You could try adding verdigris to copper pipes (since they don't rust) or make other types of pipes and add rust. Jane over at Minifanaticus has a great tutorial on rust. I will definitely be making more pipes and trying out Jane's tutorial. This is how they look in my corner setting. Who would have thought that a little while ago they were just straws? For making the pipes stick to the walls better make another paper roll for each side and glue it in. This way there will be a little more surface to stick to the walls. You can use these in a variety of settings. If you leave them shiny and new they would be great for a more modern house. You could use them in a warehouse or for exteriors. I think the copper ones would work great for steampunk projects or fantasy settings. Well, this is it. You have made your pipes, now all you have to do is add them to your setting. If any questions arise I will be more than happy to answer them. Also if anyone will try this I'd love to see the results! Happy crafting! *Poof*

Portland-based artist and illustrator Song Kang creates highly textural work, whether that’s in her drawn explorations or sculptures produced from found and natural materials. Her miniature works are dream-like environments and houses, many built on backs of animals like oxen and camels. Kang likes to imagine these sculptures as visual scavenger hunts, and often inserts even tinier occupants that sit and stand around her micro-cities. For her Carved in Stone series, Kang imposes architectural forms onto the surfaces of found rocks. More

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Sydney-based artist Catherine Nelson refers to herself as a painter with a camera, in that she doesn’t see the world as a photographer does but instead uses photos as a medium with which she creates these fantastic miniature worlds. Each work is comprised of hundreds of photographs which she digitally stitches together, drawing from an extensive background in visual special effects having worked on such films as Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter and 300. Of her work Nelson says: When I embraced the medium of photography, I felt that taking a picture that represented only what was within the frame of the lens wasn’t expressing my personal and inner experience of the world around me. More

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Paolo Ventura (1968, Milan, Italy) invents stories. Like all good storytellers, Ventura was raised on them and appears to have a natural gift for narrative. Each of his pictures holds its own little mystery, a concoction of atmosphere, character and detail that urges for closer examination. Ventura, like a true master illusionist, makes things disappear in front of our eyes. Death and vanishing are recurring themes in his work. He explains it as an omnipresent “fear of losing someone he loves”, which he translates onto his photographs. In his Short Stories this can be clearly observed. The Vanishing Man, a Jewish man wearing a yellow star on his coat, slowly evaporates into the city walls, alluding to the Holocaust. The Hunter vanishes after shooting down some birds. Since any story needs the imagination and speculation of the listener/ viewer, Ventura unfolds his narratives over a series of images, similar to a flipbook. Within this series, each image forms its own little mystery, filled with character and atmosphere and detail that beg for closer examination. Ventura’s multilayered, but essentially photo-based practice comes from a personal history rich with charisma and angst. ‘La Citta Infinita‘, a series he started in 2013 is inspired by his travels on New York City’s above ground train lines as well as by Italo Calvino’s writings. In this series Ventura built and painted a group of small, empty buildings, ranging from hotels to tenements. He then photographed the miniature sculptures and painted, stamped, typed, and drew over the 4-by-5-inch images and displayed them horizontally in individual frames. The intriguingly cryptic images appears to be painted memories of a desolate abandoned city. — Paolo Ventura’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including the Italian Pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale. Ventura studied at the Milan’s Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in the early 1990s. Solo exhibitions include the Forma International Center for Photography, Milan; Museum of Contemporary Art of Roma (MACRO), Rome; The Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome and during the Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles. In 2012, he was selected by curator Vittorio Sgarbi to create a series of works for the Italian national pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2018 Ventura received a large solo exhibition in Armani Silos, Milan. His work is included in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Art, USA; Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., Lowe Art Museum, Miami, USA: MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Italy; Maison Européen de la Photographie, Paris, France: Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy and Instituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome, Italy and the MAXXI, National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome and Kunsthal in Rotterdam In 2014 he collaborated with the celebrated director and prestigious award winner Rob Ashford on the creation of the scenography for the Lyric Chicago Opera Theatre. Ventura received other important commissions from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome and the Mart, the museum of modern and contemporary art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy. In 2017 Ventura was commissioned by the Teatro Regio of Turin for the stages, costumes and video for the opera Pagliacci by Leoncavallo. Four monographs of Paolo Ventura’s work have been published: War Souvenir (Contrasto, 2006), Winter Stories (Aperture and Contrasto, 2009), The Automaton (Peliti Asociati, 2011) and Lo Zuavo Scomparso (Punctum Press, 2012). Small and limited publications have appeared with publisher Danilo Montanari Editore such as Il Mago (2013), An Invented World (2013) and Death of an anarchist (2015). In 2016 Aperture published the latest publication by Ventura, Short Stories.

The simplicity of a seaside holiday in Paternoster: There’s something so simple and utterly relaxing about a weekend away beside the sea. Paternoster, only two hours from Cape Town, has always been one of those places for me.

Among my favourite things are mid-century American kitsch and teeny tiny stuff. Put the two together and you basically send me into overload. I'm not exactly sure why run-down vintage motels fascinate me so; perhaps that seedy glamour of America is much more appealing to a European road-tripper like

Sydney-based artist Catherine Nelson refers to herself as a painter with a camera, in that she doesn’t see the world as a photographer does but instead uses photos as a medium with which she creates these fantastic miniature worlds. Each work is comprised of hundreds of photographs which she digitally stitches together, drawing from an extensive background in visual special effects having worked on such films as Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter and 300. Of her work Nelson says: When I embraced the medium of photography, I felt that taking a picture that represented only what was within the frame of the lens wasn’t expressing my personal and inner experience of the world around me. More

Mini shrine near the sea. Milos island, Cyclades, Greece

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Sydney-based artist Catherine Nelson refers to herself as a painter with a camera, in that she doesn’t see the world as a photographer does but instead uses photos as a medium with which she creates these fantastic miniature worlds. Each work is comprised of hundreds of photographs which she digitally stitches together, drawing from an extensive background in visual special effects having worked on such films as Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter and 300. Of her work Nelson says: When I embraced the medium of photography, I felt that taking a picture that represented only what was within the frame of the lens wasn’t expressing my personal and inner experience of the world around me. More

“This is perfection in here,” artist Sally Curcio says of her miniature “Bubble” worlds. But “it has that fragility to it. It could be popped.”

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