Miniature trains from pencil lead

Cindy Chinn has done something I could never aspire to: carved tiny trains out of pencil lead (while it's still attached to the pencil. See it here.

Paolo Scheggi

Wow, nice work by Paolo Scheggi

Tiny Whispering Rabbit Concertina Series

Five tiny pieces for #sydsmlgly. 

Each book is 2x3x1.3cm when closed.

Altered (or upcycled maybe) from the Little Golden Book The Whispering Rabbit. If you're interested in the story, see the end of this post.
Some of the pockets have paper printed with French postcards from the 70s (M et Mme Piton), and a map of Paris.

Concertinas with pockets. Held closed by a belly band.

The photos below on the green background are of the first book I made. The rest I finished and have photographed on the white background.

For those who are interested, the Whispering Rabbit is about a baby rabbit who yawns without closing his mouth and a bumblebee flies into his mouth and falls asleep in his throat. He has to whisper because of the bee.  He whispers to many animals in search of what to do, and the best advice is to make a very small sound. 

The ideas of what the small sounds are (snow melting, a fireman thinking) are just beautiful. In the end the sound of a bee miles away sucking nectar from a slower wakes up the bumblebee. And finally the rabbit can sleep. 

Birds birds birds

Sheridan Jones' spectacular bird-themed work will give you flights of fancy, feathers of fantastic here and here.

Borax and books

who knew borax and books could make such beauty?
The work of Alexis Arnold.
more here.

Tiny hanging mobile dragonfly

Laser cut acrylic works on canvas paper  turned into a tiny mobile.
dragonfly
3cm x 2cm

Tiny sculptures

These sculptures are part of my #sydsmlgly submission.
They are made from paperclips.
Each sculpture measures less than 3 x 3 x 3 cm

Tiny mobile

These are the three cakes Psyche took to hell to feed to Cerebus, so she could get Pandora's box and be with Eros (despite her mother-in-law's murderous opposition).

Measures 2.2cm in diameter, 1.5 cm tall, suspended.
Cotton, beads, paper, ink

The writing is scans from my mother's application for employment with the Department of Education and a quote about dragons.

The Psyche Series for #sydsmlgly

This series of works is tiny: I'm submitting to Sydney's Smallest Gallery 2016, all works are maximum 3 x 3 x 3cm.
This page is one of my submissions (so I don't have to retype all of the details)
This series is inspired by Psyche's trials.
The entire series is made from miniature clothes pegs reconstructed.
Each piece is 3cm high, and the plinth they are standing on is 1.8cm in diameter.
I made these pieces on 6 December 2015.

Title: Bound together

Description: Wood and metal, re-fashioned miniature clothes pegs 

Title: Bound without Heart

 Description: Wood, cotton, plastic bead, re-fashioned miniature clothes peg 

Title: Psyche: Proclaiming with swollen heart

 Description: Wood, cotton, re-fashioned miniature clothes peg, laser engraved oval

  

Title: Lean on me

 Description: Wood, metal, re-fashioned miniature clothes pegs 

Title: Peer pressure

 Description: Wood, re-fashioned miniature clothes pegs 

Title: Falling apart with broken heart

 Description: Wood, cotton, plastic beads, re-fashioned miniature clothes pegs 

 

Title: Off kilter

 Description: Wood, re-fashioned miniature clothes pegs 

 

Title: Crowded words

 Description: Wood, metal, plastic bead, laser cut and etched letter, re-fashioned miniature clothes pegs 

Title: Heart Without

 Description: Wood, plastic bead, re-fashioned miniature clothes peg 

 

A group shot of the series

Make DIY wax seals with Sugru

Sugru, mouldable glue. I have a heap in my fridge. Here is how to make wax seals with it.



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from the weirdest things

Toilet Paper Rolls Squished into Funny Faces by Junior Fritz Jacquet shows wonderful faces.



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cool paper cuts

Pablo Lehmann's paper cuts are a sight to behold



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tiny works 1

Tiny sculptures from paper clips and laser cut letters.
Developing some works for #sydsmlgly 2016

Tiny boxes

Created today for the smallest gallery exhibition.

All artworks must be 3cm cubed or smaller.

I was part of last year's event (I made 9 tiny books), and it was enchanting. I was so inspired by other artists' work, so this year I'm taking a little time to make a few different works.

These cubes are between .4 and 1.5 cm each.

they are made from the pages of a Little Golden Book of Paddington Bear. The complexity of the watercolour illustrations look great abstracted in "tiny"

Accordion with boxes 2

Added belly band (see last week's pix here).
Covered boxes inside and top with a map of Vienna.

Still not happy that it's done. 

I'm thinking some beads or some extra pages. I imagine like usual the answer will come when I least expect it!

Octopus Typewriter

An Octopus Typewriter by Courtney Brown 

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Pop ups

Go get inspired with these pop ups from Paul Johnson.

Accordion with boxes

Two small boxes I've hoarded for a year.
Some encaustic treated paper.
A few diamante brads.
Voila stage 1 of this accordion/ concertina book.
Now to make books to go inside the boxes.

And a curtain

One of my other artistic pursuits is improvising. (Improvactally.blogspot.com ).

Today's artistic output is a new curtain backdrop for the show. The show's called likewise.

The curtain features a placket so performers can entire from behind it.  And inside there is also a pocket (for props or cameras or other show paraphernalia - never had one before so haven't yet imagined its uses).

The curtain is 480cm x 160cm. It will suspend over a rod each week on a Wednesday night for the show. The rod is 240cm high so there will be some overhang.
Still to determine the best way to make it stay up.  For the first few weeks i imagine bulldog clips will do the job. ..

And now with tyvek crown

The paper crown binding was breaking away.
So i made a binding from tyvek.