Miniature Art In Wax @ Home

Miniature Art In Wax @ Home ….. I love to see my art in their new homes and quite people often send me messages or we connect via Facebook or Etsy and show me photographs of the pieces of my mini art they have bought and how they are on display in their dolls houses or miniature properties.

Last year I did a blog post showing lots of dollhouses and room boxes with miniature art in wax on display you can see that post : “Miniature dolls houses displaying Art In Wax”

Miniature Art for Dolls Houses but Not Just For Dolls Houses !

This post shows some more miniature properties with paintings on display and also how my miniature art is “not just for dolls houses”. I am very fortunate to have collectors of my miniature art whom have miniature art collections.

I know from communication with collectors, some of whom I have got to know very well and are friends now, sharing a passion for all things miniature, that my art is displayed in many ways from dolls houses to room boxes and in albums, on display shelves and made into collectible frames for the wall. I too have miniature art on display in this way. As you may know if you have read my blog I have my own miniature 1 :12 scale property – an Art Gallery which is a Victorian double front shop with a contemporary interior called The Gallery. I also have miniature art on display on miniature easels on shelves in our lounge, my office and of course my studio.

Some of the owners of my mini art have given me permission to show their photos here on this blog post today.

Thank you everyone who has contributed. My art is sold worldwide and below are some photo from both local and international collectors.

Lesley from Scotland has several pieces of my art In here house, the thistle, stag landscape and the highland cattle, which was painted as a commission for her, look great in her house.

Alison in Essex has dolls houses but is also a collectors whom love to display my art in different ways has made the frame below to display some of her collection of Art In Wax. Some of these pieces are very unique as Alison commissioned me to paint specifically for her collection….. including a very cheeky monkey !!!

The artist studio set below with lots of paintings including a peacock and exotic birds is not a dollhouse house but a shelf. Susan in Washington state USA has this collection of my art in a very cleverly put together “set display” on a shelving unit in her home. It is very effective and I love the idea of creating a set from miniatures like this.

Jan had the paneled frame style screen (shown below)and asked me to paint pictures to go into it, with a theme on poppies and cakes for her mini cafe.

Sam has several dollhouses and here shows us one of her houses with my art on display. The detail of her houses is wonderful, I especially like the bedroom with the framed lavender painting over the bed and the sweet-pea bouquet in the lovely kitchen.

Thank you again everyone who has let me see their Art In Wax in there new homes.

Hazel

Please comment below if you enjoy this post. Or maybe you have a piece of Art In Wax too………

Art In Wax Miniature Art

I mostly show my latest miniature paintings and work in progress on Facebook first and very often they sell before getting into my shops. So if you are interested why not like and follow my page :
www.facebook.com/artinwax

Where you can buy Art In Wax ;

Etsy :

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

My Website :

http://www.artinwax.co.uk/shop-miniature-doll-house-art.php

Direct via Facebook :

www.facebook.com/artinwax

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.

Where you can buy Art In Wax

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

My Website :
http://www.artinwax.co.uk/shop-miniature-doll-house-art.php

Direct via Facebook :
www.facebook.com/artinwax

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