Painting a Toucan

Step by step painting a miniature painting of a Toucan

I thought it might be fun to show pictures of the stages of me painting my latest miniature Dolls House picture, this is a first for me. I have never painted a Toucan before.

Being a miniature artist is great fun and painting miniature Dolls House Art in hot wax can be a challenge…..

I do like a challenge !

Painitng a miniature Toucan for a dollhouse

These photos show the stages of how this little piece of Art In Wax came to be.

First I painted the background. I did this using my encaustic iron, using a mixture of leaf green and white wax paint.

Note : I use Arts Encaustic Wax Paints on specialist encaustic gloss card support.

I then roughly plan the layout of the picture and stat to paint.

Painting in his beak then the body of the bird.

I used a mix or dark purple and navy blue to paint his feathers as black would be a bit harsh I feel.

The exotic flowers and the foliage are next. I use my tiny heat tool to get the details and my iron shape mini stylus for the greenery.

The neon pink wax gives a great highlight to the tropical style flowers.

Before finishing with a light polish I decided to trim the painting which is now 2 x 1 1/2 inches.

I hope you like see the process of this project please leave me a comment below.

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My latest Commissioned painting was for a Hummingbird !!

My Original miniature dollhouse art is very popular and this week it has been all about the birds ! Hummingbirds in fact.

The orange flower hummingbird miniature painting is my latest commissioned piece. A lady who owns a couple of my paintings and whom I met a couple of years ago at a dolls house fair in Essex, found my Etsy store online and, having seen a hummingbird painting that I had recently sold contacted me to ask if I could paint one especially for her.

I painted more than one for her to choose and supplied it in the frame shown. The frame is wooden handmade frame I had bespokely made for me by a craftsman here in the UK and is 2 x 2 1/2 inches in size.

The other two miniature hummingbird pieces I painted for choice, have now been snapped up by a miniatures collector in Wales

Not just in miniature

Inspired by these tiny paintings I decided to paint a larger piece of Art In Wax ….

This hummingbird painting is also painted in Encaustic hot wax paints on an A5 size Encaustic card support and is shown here mounted and framed to 10 x 12 inches.

Original Art for your DollHouse

Painting in miniature for dolls house and collectors is challenging but great fun

This week I have been painting flowers, which is where I started when I first began painting encaustic.

This miniatures are painted using Encaustic hot wax paints on specialist encaustic. And support which is a high gloss cream coloured support for Encaustic painting.

Currently these miniatures are for sale via my Etsy shop.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ArtInWax

Dollhouse art by miniature artist Hazel Rayfield

These miniature paintings are a couple of very rare NON encaustic dollhouse paintings I did this week.

Here in Southend on Sea England we are having some very hot weather. Which makes a nice change but I’m finding it a bit too hot in my studio this week to be painting with my encaustic paints and heat tools !!!!

I’ve been busy with orders and some miniatures garden and lavender paintings are off to the US later today. But I also needed a creative “fix” so have been doodling with my old watercolour paint box – as you can see they are well used. I don’t often paint in watercolour nowadays but they are good for quick sketches or on occasions like this when I need a creative fix but can’t get near my hot irons and stylus tools.

These two mixed media Poppy and wildflower landscapes are painted in watercolour and ink and are 2 x 1 1/2 inches shown here in frames 2 x 2 1/2 inches.

As you know if you read my blog here on Art In Wax I love my encaustic painting and it is my passion but these little miniatures were fun to paint and a very unique doll house art piece by me

SteamPunk Miniature Dolls House Art

New Steampunk inspired framed Lady Paintings

These steampunk themed Lady paintings are my latest miniature dollhouse art pieces.

Dressed in their finery, with goggles on their hats, one is holding a metal type owl while the other has a metallic style parasol and the one with the abstract landscape has a steam train in the background.

Currently at the time of writing this post, they are available to buy from my Etsy store, Art In Wax On Etsy they are proving very popular so if sold out please enquiry using my website about me painting one especially for you.

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