I did a personal swap with the lovely @Averia and she asked for inchies! I haven’t really done much inchie-ing but boy, these tiny things are addictive!!
Since they were for Averia, naturally I promised her that they would be orange.
They are mostly watercolours, a couple with added mini origami and collage.
Snail mail, Averia’s palette (all the blues), origami boat
Sapphire, Moon hare, willow house, fluffy cat
Birdie, origami crane, and I had to include the promised orange
You can’t see in the photo, but the sapphire pops up on a folded strip of paper - which is an encyclopaedia entry for “sapphire”
These ones are my three favourites - “snail mail” and “willow house“ include a little bit of book page collage.
I had a lot of fun painting these, and I was really chuffed with how they turned out. Thanks for nudging me to try something new with my watercolours Laura!!
These are so pretty! I love how you made them monochrome!.
My favourite is the boat one and the house and the snail.
I had some trouble recognizing the fluffy cat. Is he looking up, and we are watching from the back?
These are your first inchies? You did an amazing job. I love the diversity across each square. The teeny origami is fantastic and the rabbit is captivating. Well done.
They are lovely. Hard to believe they are just one inch! You are masterful with the tiny brush. And the orange
I love that you spelled encyclopædia with ‘ae’, I used that ligature in the spelling of my daughter’s name!
Yes, exactly that. I think if I painted him again I would define the ears more clearly. It’s tricky in a tiny space!
I have a very vague recollection of making a few simple inchies a loooooong, long time ago at the old place, so I think they probably aren’t the very first ever. But they weren’t little watercolour paintings like these, so the extreme-mini watercolour painting is a new challenge!
How cool!
I think he is my favourite too (but don’t tell Mr Snail )
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