#miniature monday

[upennmanuscripts]

Trying something new with #MiniatureMonday! Today's miniatures are from Ms. Codex 873, a notarized copy of baptismal, marriage, and property records of the Cosio Gomez family of Lores, Spain, dating from 1620 to 1795, with a petition to King Carlos IV to extend the title of the family to the heirs of Santiago de Cosio Gomez. Written in Palencia in northern Spain and finished on May 1, 1795, this little book is full of initials illustrated with miniatures of village scenes in the background. Delightful!

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[uispeccoll]

#MiniatureMonday #TinyTuesday

A Mushroom ABC. by Peter and Donna Thomas

For the beginning of summer, MiniMondays is going to have a series focusing on a small fraction of the lovely artists books by Peter and Donna Thomas!

For our book after a long weekend, we have some lovely illustrations of mushrooms in an ABC accordion book!

"Printed watercolors on one side of an accordion folded handmade sheet (50 x 150 mm.), shaped to resemble a mushroom. First and last folded leaves mounted on two paper boards, covered with gray paper, and also shaped as a mushroom. Title paper label on front cover. Issued in a slipcase covered with paper and with a mylar front cover that reveals the shaped binding."--Catalog

Peter and Donna Thomas are "book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work both collaboratively and individually; letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books." They have made over 100 limited edition books, often with Peter making the paper, and Donna doing the illustrations.

Check out more of Donna and Peter's books at Uiowa here.

--Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student

[moradinsforge]

Once upon a time I posted about some Dead By Daylight hooks that I was painting. Well I finally finished them!

These were a challenge to my surprise. I naively thought they would be easy and I'd finish them in a day because "they're only terrain pieces". I was so so wrong. Initially I tried to make them all different but ended up not liking the results. So instead I started over and re-painted the like models the same and added blood to one of them for a before/after situation with a survivor getting hooked by a killer. I'm pretty satisfied with the results!

I did discover that my blood effects paint was completely dried up in the bottle so I had to improvise with some dragon red and pure red paint. Looks like I have an excuse to order more paints and also work on my blood techniques in case I ever need blood but don't have effects paint again. I've been too spoiled. 😁

[gameoftravel]

My little collection of BOYL Oldhammer minitures :)

[eldavephoto]

Belated birthday post. I'm old enough now to need readers when I paint, which has been a weird adjustment.

[njhgc]

Miniature Monday

This is the smallest book I've found in our rare book collection! Aunt Rose and Her Nieces was part of the Tiny Library series published from 1858-1869 by Merriam, Moore, & Co in Troy, NY.

Other small scale books from the series included The Life of General Tom Thumb, Dew Drops, and the Holy Bible.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldCrocDay + #ManuscriptMonday :

Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) having its teeth cleaned by the "Crocodile Bird" (Trochilus), from a 1615 copy of the Kitāb al-Ḥayawān (The Book of Animals) by al-Jāḥiẓ (c. 776–868/869 CE). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, MS D140inf.

[agbpaints]

Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my mace!

[isilrina]

Happy Art Monday!

This week has been super hectic with preparations for launching my company, so I didn’t have time to start a new drawing. Instead, I tackled my gray pile of shame and painted some minis—here's a few pics of my slowly growing army of Battle Sisters!

I also gathered more pose references for future projects, but I’m not sure when I'll be able to start something new because my husband and I are traveling to Greece soon to visit my parents and do some sightseeing. We’ll be back at the end of September, and I might not be able to stick to my usual Monday and Thursday posts, depending on the internet situation.

Lastly, I revisited an old obsession with X-Men after seeing Deadpool & Wolverine for my birthday—it’s reignited a forgotten flame of inspiration, so you might see some X-Men-related art in the future (and it may have something to do with the resources I’ve been hoarding 😉).

Catch you later, and thanks for all the support!

[blaiddraws]

HOWDY FOLKS I've not drawn very much as of late since. uhhhh. SEVERAL things happened. but one of them is because i went to a miniature painting convention this past weekend!

it was super fun! here's a couple minis i painted-- first one was just for fun and i want to make her into a character now, second one i did in a class on painting with limited palettes! i did that with only three different colors of paint!

[hellnohenry]

hey, random arts and crafts? I'm depending on you, random arts and crafts. random arts and crafts? please fix everything.

[uispeccoll]

#MiniatureMonday

Serments d’Amour 

Measuring 6mm, this micro book is one of the smallest in the collection. Serments d’Amour (roughly translating to ‘Love Oaths’), features the phrase “I Love You” in 8 different languages. The little book is bound in red leather with a stamped golden heart on the front cover, featuring golden gilded edges. The copy was issued in a cream case with a red velvet cushion and a small, magnified case to help see the finer details.  

Je t'aime -- I love you -- Ich liebe Dich -- Ti voglio bene --我爱你-- Я тебя люблю-- أحبك --te amo --te quiero

[moradinsforge]

This weekend's painting project is some Dead By Daylight hooks! Progress to follow ☺️

[gameoftravel]

Ogre Bruiser for Stempunk skirmish game Wolsung. i love this game, easy to learn ruleset, amazing models, just pure fun. I hope I will get back to in in 2024

[eldavephoto]

Inktober Week 1: Spider. From the printer to the table, ready for paint! Sculpt by Parasite Collectibles. #MiniatureMonday #MiniaturePainting #3dPrinting #Wargaming #Inktober