Monthly MINIATURE Project -- April, 2012

[valchina612]

Monthly Miniature Project -- April, 2012.

Hi Everyone,

The following are the Images for our Monthly Miniature Project, which will be changed on or near the 1st of every month.

Rules For The Monthly Miniature Project:-

1) Use one or more of the photos.

2) Credit the Photographer of the photo(s) in your first post. They are listed in the first post each month.

3) Drawings may be any size, up to 24 square inches (i.e 6"x4") -- the choice is yours. Use the images for ATCs/ACEOs etc. if you wish.

4) You may use any medium of your own choice.

5) Cropping, combining, adding, subtracting to the work is all allowed.

6) All drawings from these Images must be posted in this Thread -- do not start a new one.

7) Create a beautiful little piece of artwork for us all to enjoy, and most of all, have fun.

Val.



Male Cardinal by mustang202.


Red Icelandic Poppy 6 by stephie20.


Fisgard_Lighthouse by Pippin.


Copper Tea Service by emmachester.


Old farm gatepost by ICanDoIt.

[halthepainter]

Val, thank you for hosting. I was exploring and ran across this challenge. I have a number of 4 by 6 inch canvases and have been wanting to use them. You've given me inspiration to give them a try.

[SunFace]

OMG LOVE all the references.... specially that first cheetah!

[Marmsk]

Val, what a busy lady you are. This month I am going to join in the fun. Eeny, meany, miney, mo.... hmmmmm.

[catgabriel]

Wow, what fantastic references! I have recently become very interested in miniature art so I'm going to give one of these a go I think

[valchina612]

Thankyou so much folks. I am looking so forward to seeing your work for this month.

Val.

[SunFace]

Here is my first one. It does not have a description f the contributor, but whoever it is Thanks!

Is colored pencil aceo size.

[valchina612]

Maria -- I LOVE your Cheetah. Really well done. I'm so sorry I missed the title and photographer. It is called Cheetah by stribb.

Val.

[SunFace]

Thanks, is OK! I was just trying to follow the guidelines LOL, I don;t want to get in trouble! I love all the photos so much this month, I am going to aim to do all of them!

[cfo]

Thanks, Val, for the delightful ref pics! I LOVE mini's, and every month I do one, but never get time to upload them, but I'll try to make a plan this month. Happy painting,
Charri

[Marmsk]

Well done Sunface! That is not an easy one to paint.

[vmrs]

Beautiful cheetah Sunface! That's a lot of spots.

[vmrs]

I used "Fisgard_Lighthouse" by Pippin. This is acrylic, 5 x 3 inches on a black background. I moved the boat and added a person and changed the lighting. Now looking at it I wish I had the boat crossing the horizon line. I think compositionally that would have been better.

[Lucylove]

vmrs - I love your crisp cool colors. I'd love the be that little figure on the shore...better yet.. I'd love the view of land from that boat! So pretty!

Sunface - Are those wet pencils? How'd you manage to get such blending? I think you have made a beautiful reproduction. Thank you for sharing!

[valchina612]

Virginia -- Your Lighthouse Painting is gorgeous. I really love it.

Val.