Besides being incredibly detailed, Sandor’s creations are almost always being engaged in some intriguing scenario. This includes mice being in the middle of his way through bread leftovers or a chameleon chasing butterflies.

Sandor is making miniatures since childhood and has managed to perfect the process over time. This includes studying photos of her subjects, making sketches, and creating the basis for the miniature. Still, due to her attention to details, making one piece can take anywhere from two days to two weeks.

Check out more of Sandor’s miniatures below.

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“Even if I don’t know where to place my work within contemporary art right now, I do think they share similar characteristics with both illustration and fiber art and I try to achieve a balance between them,” she remarked once in an interview with Textile Artist.

Based in Eskisehir, Turkey, Yazici’s love of crafts led her eventually to embroidery. “My first works were a recoil of embroidery being used for only traditional and decorative purposes,” she says. “The idea of mixing the inherent tradition of embroidery with modern ideas seemed interesting to me.”

Her work mostly features natural themes like plants, flowers, and animals, but what really makes it stand out is its relatively small size, with some of her embroideries so tiny they can fit on a pin. You’ll want to join in on the hype.

The post Irem Yazici’s Miniature Embroidery is All the Rage appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I started cutting paper and creating little houses in 3D for the main characters in my first book, and I got hooked,” she admits. The path to creating miniature dioramas was paved from there. Jump forward some years later, and her creations are now displayed in galleries around the world, celebrated for their level of execution.

Each diorama begins with a sketch, after which Cerdà hunts for reference images. “I like to find just the right tile designs or the best plants to go with the piece,” she says. With a background in cinema and audiovisuals and a fascination with scenography and the treatment of space, Cerdà is a firm believer that characters can be defined by a space, even if they are not present within it.

Studying cinema has also influenced the way Cerdà illustrates, inspired by both movies and the art of making movies which includes details like lighting, mise-en-scène and, above all, the use of space. Completing one piece can take anything between one or two days to more than three weeks.

Here are some highlights from her Instagram page.

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“My miniature adventure began as a kid after coming across an issue of nutshell news for the first time,” he writes on his website. “Growing up I wasn’t into regular toys and games so upon discovering the world of miniatures I was instantly intrigued.”

With a dad who worked in construction and a mom who was into painting and sewing, his interest in crafts and creative work seemed natural. While he didn’t have any interest in dolls, he loved dollhouses and started making some himself as a young teen.

You can see the things he makes today below and on his Instagram page.

The post Chris Toledo Makes Amazing Miniature Rooms appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Well, here’s a chance to find out!  

Filmmakers Aleia Murawski and Samuel Copeland are the genius brains behind the idea of creating detailed miniature worlds for their pet snails. These snails drive limousines, drink champagne, bathe in jacuzzis and watch funny TV shows.   

Murawski said in an interview with It’s Nice That that everything began when Copeland found snails during a visit to his parents in Illinois. They first made a terrarium for them and treated them like pets. This period corresponded with Murawski and Copeland starting to create miniature scenes together, and soon they figured that these scenes are more or less snail-sized. That’s when they realized they could animate these rooms and make them come alive by putting their pet snails in them. And it worked!  

If this is at least a little bit intriguing for you, we strongly recommend that you scroll down and check out the supercute human-like snail world these two artists created, and trust us – it will blow your mind!   

The post A Supercute Miniature World Made For Snails appeared first on MobiSpirit.

To prove her point she recalls taking an art class at around 5, and being asked by the teacher to draw a figure. “He asked me to draw a figure, and put me in front of an easel with a large pad of newsprint, I drew a figure that took up a tiny corner,” she says. “He asked me to try again, bigger, and I drew something only slightly bigger- after a few attempts he told my mother he couldn’t really teach me.”

Years later and with almost half a million followers online, she proved there’s an audience for even the smallest of paintings. “I think I’m incredibly fortunate, because, within the last 15 years that I’ve been working as a professional artist, the art world has started to emerge from what I always thought of as a sort of dark age,” she says. “I think for a lot of the 20th century the mainstream art world has been dominated by art that is very commercial, conceptually heavy-handed and visually bland.”

Her miniatures tend to focus on the natural world, but there are a couple of human figures here and there. Scroll down and take a look.

The post The Remarkable Miniature Paintings of Dina Brodsky appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“The first miniature I made was when I was around 10 years old,” recalled Paredes in an interview with The Daily Mini. “I made it with toothpicks and it was a little house with small furniture. I remember that in order to open and close the door, I used a piece of cloth. I still keep it with much affection.”

Years later, she’s now a well-respected model maker and miniature creator, known primarily for her miniature houses. Based in Spain, she mainly works with wood, clay, and acrylic paint. Her work incorporates various types of wood, including softwood like balsa or hardwood like linden. After making her houses, she adds detail in clay and then paints the finished product.

“One thing that I enjoy very much is making miniature versions of people’s houses,” says Paredes. “It is very exciting for them and I have a good time.” “For me, the most difficult thing is to make very small objects without losing too many details,” she adds.

Join her growing fanbase on Instagram.

The post Oh, to Live Inside Marina Paredes’ Miniature Houses! appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Leshko is cutting, carving, and layering wood and paper to create a 3D archive of buildings in his original neighborhood in Philadelphia. Through his work, he aims to examine gentrification, history, and preservation in architecture. He observes photographs and recreates facades at a miniature scale of 1:12, which is the standard dollhouse scale.  

Leshko’s miniatures include everything typical for Philadelphia’s neighborhoods, such as pawnshops, local dive bars, or convenience stores. The sculptures are filled with important details and nostalgia. For designing the details on the miniature buildings, he uses premade items, kits, or computer-cut pieces, though the paper is the primary component.    

In his miniature pieces of art, Leshko also creates other cities with rapidly changing architecture, such as New Orleans. Leshko is especially focusing his attention on gentrifying neighborhoods, which are turning into brand new corporal neighborhoods with shiny buildings.   

The average time necessary to produce one medium-sized building is around 120 hours, which means that the artist needs extreme dedication and patience.   

Scroll down to take a walk down the nostalgic lanes of Philadelphia and New Orleans!  

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“I generally draw inspiration for miniatures from whatever I wish I had in real life but, for whatever reason, don’t,” said the Nashville-based artist in an interview with Daily Mini. “That may be a particular food, a vintage stove, or some antique painting I can’t afford. At least I can have a miniature version.”

But her ultimate obsession has to be miniature food (her miniature lemon bundt cake, in particular, is to die for). “My interest in miniatures really stems from my love of fake food and the realization that minis could be a relatively easy way to reproduce all kinds of food,” explained Growden.

Completely self-taught, Growden says she began experimenting with miniature making after coming across some YouTube videos of a girl making tiny food pieces. “I was working at an art supply store, so I just bought the supplies I needed there and went home to try making some mini food myself,” she recalled.

Take a look at some of her marvelous creations:

The post Rachel Growden’s Teeny-Tiny Food Items appeared first on MobiSpirit.

But she didn’t start out being a miniature artist. In fact, for over 20 years DomestiKate has worked in interior design and couture when she came to the realization that her work was too big. “I was making massive design decisions for clients, yet I wasn’t feeling that same big joy I was helping them to create,” she admits on her website.

Within days of this realization, a friend gifted her a distressed dollhouse. “I decided to renovate this gifted dollhouse as a design piece for my office and I GOT LOST IN CREATIVITY,” recalled DomestiKate. “I had fallen out of practice of actually MAKING. THIS is what I had been missing.”

The work itself was a challenge, but one that was worthwhile. “For me, joy comes from the craft,” she writes. “I like having paint under my fingernails and had forgotten how awesome it feels to stare at piles of assorted materials that are just waiting for me to morph them into something new, something different.”

Get lost inside her miniature worlds:

The post This Artist Has Shrunk Her Work to Miniature Scale appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Besides being incredibly detailed, Sandor’s creations are almost always being engaged in some intriguing scenario. This includes mice being in the middle of his way through bread leftovers or a chameleon chasing butterflies.

Sandor is making miniatures since childhood and has managed to perfect the process over time. This includes studying photos of her subjects, making sketches, and creating the basis for the miniature. Still, due to her attention to details, making one piece can take anywhere from two days to two weeks.

Check out more of Sandor’s miniatures below.

The post Biologist Makes Amazing Anatomically-correct Miniatures of Animals appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“Even if I don’t know where to place my work within contemporary art right now, I do think they share similar characteristics with both illustration and fiber art and I try to achieve a balance between them,” she remarked once in an interview with Textile Artist.

Based in Eskisehir, Turkey, Yazici’s love of crafts led her eventually to embroidery. “My first works were a recoil of embroidery being used for only traditional and decorative purposes,” she says. “The idea of mixing the inherent tradition of embroidery with modern ideas seemed interesting to me.”

Her work mostly features natural themes like plants, flowers, and animals, but what really makes it stand out is its relatively small size, with some of her embroideries so tiny they can fit on a pin. You’ll want to join in on the hype.

The post Irem Yazici’s Miniature Embroidery is All the Rage appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I started cutting paper and creating little houses in 3D for the main characters in my first book, and I got hooked,” she admits. The path to creating miniature dioramas was paved from there. Jump forward some years later, and her creations are now displayed in galleries around the world, celebrated for their level of execution.

Each diorama begins with a sketch, after which Cerdà hunts for reference images. “I like to find just the right tile designs or the best plants to go with the piece,” she says. With a background in cinema and audiovisuals and a fascination with scenography and the treatment of space, Cerdà is a firm believer that characters can be defined by a space, even if they are not present within it.

Studying cinema has also influenced the way Cerdà illustrates, inspired by both movies and the art of making movies which includes details like lighting, mise-en-scène and, above all, the use of space. Completing one piece can take anything between one or two days to more than three weeks.

Here are some highlights from her Instagram page.

The post Upgrading From 2D to 3D: Mar Cerdà’s Miniature Dioramas appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“My miniature adventure began as a kid after coming across an issue of nutshell news for the first time,” he writes on his website. “Growing up I wasn’t into regular toys and games so upon discovering the world of miniatures I was instantly intrigued.”

With a dad who worked in construction and a mom who was into painting and sewing, his interest in crafts and creative work seemed natural. While he didn’t have any interest in dolls, he loved dollhouses and started making some himself as a young teen.

You can see the things he makes today below and on his Instagram page.

The post Chris Toledo Makes Amazing Miniature Rooms appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Well, here’s a chance to find out!  

Filmmakers Aleia Murawski and Samuel Copeland are the genius brains behind the idea of creating detailed miniature worlds for their pet snails. These snails drive limousines, drink champagne, bathe in jacuzzis and watch funny TV shows.   

Murawski said in an interview with It’s Nice That that everything began when Copeland found snails during a visit to his parents in Illinois. They first made a terrarium for them and treated them like pets. This period corresponded with Murawski and Copeland starting to create miniature scenes together, and soon they figured that these scenes are more or less snail-sized. That’s when they realized they could animate these rooms and make them come alive by putting their pet snails in them. And it worked!  

If this is at least a little bit intriguing for you, we strongly recommend that you scroll down and check out the supercute human-like snail world these two artists created, and trust us – it will blow your mind!   

The post A Supercute Miniature World Made For Snails appeared first on MobiSpirit.

To prove her point she recalls taking an art class at around 5, and being asked by the teacher to draw a figure. “He asked me to draw a figure, and put me in front of an easel with a large pad of newsprint, I drew a figure that took up a tiny corner,” she says. “He asked me to try again, bigger, and I drew something only slightly bigger- after a few attempts he told my mother he couldn’t really teach me.”

Years later and with almost half a million followers online, she proved there’s an audience for even the smallest of paintings. “I think I’m incredibly fortunate, because, within the last 15 years that I’ve been working as a professional artist, the art world has started to emerge from what I always thought of as a sort of dark age,” she says. “I think for a lot of the 20th century the mainstream art world has been dominated by art that is very commercial, conceptually heavy-handed and visually bland.”

Her miniatures tend to focus on the natural world, but there are a couple of human figures here and there. Scroll down and take a look.

The post The Remarkable Miniature Paintings of Dina Brodsky appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“The first miniature I made was when I was around 10 years old,” recalled Paredes in an interview with The Daily Mini. “I made it with toothpicks and it was a little house with small furniture. I remember that in order to open and close the door, I used a piece of cloth. I still keep it with much affection.”

Years later, she’s now a well-respected model maker and miniature creator, known primarily for her miniature houses. Based in Spain, she mainly works with wood, clay, and acrylic paint. Her work incorporates various types of wood, including softwood like balsa or hardwood like linden. After making her houses, she adds detail in clay and then paints the finished product.

“One thing that I enjoy very much is making miniature versions of people’s houses,” says Paredes. “It is very exciting for them and I have a good time.” “For me, the most difficult thing is to make very small objects without losing too many details,” she adds.

Join her growing fanbase on Instagram.

The post Oh, to Live Inside Marina Paredes’ Miniature Houses! appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Leshko is cutting, carving, and layering wood and paper to create a 3D archive of buildings in his original neighborhood in Philadelphia. Through his work, he aims to examine gentrification, history, and preservation in architecture. He observes photographs and recreates facades at a miniature scale of 1:12, which is the standard dollhouse scale.  

Leshko’s miniatures include everything typical for Philadelphia’s neighborhoods, such as pawnshops, local dive bars, or convenience stores. The sculptures are filled with important details and nostalgia. For designing the details on the miniature buildings, he uses premade items, kits, or computer-cut pieces, though the paper is the primary component.    

In his miniature pieces of art, Leshko also creates other cities with rapidly changing architecture, such as New Orleans. Leshko is especially focusing his attention on gentrifying neighborhoods, which are turning into brand new corporal neighborhoods with shiny buildings.   

The average time necessary to produce one medium-sized building is around 120 hours, which means that the artist needs extreme dedication and patience.   

Scroll down to take a walk down the nostalgic lanes of Philadelphia and New Orleans!  

The post Artist is Inspired by the Architecture of New Orleans and Philadelphia appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I generally draw inspiration for miniatures from whatever I wish I had in real life but, for whatever reason, don’t,” said the Nashville-based artist in an interview with Daily Mini. “That may be a particular food, a vintage stove, or some antique painting I can’t afford. At least I can have a miniature version.”

But her ultimate obsession has to be miniature food (her miniature lemon bundt cake, in particular, is to die for). “My interest in miniatures really stems from my love of fake food and the realization that minis could be a relatively easy way to reproduce all kinds of food,” explained Growden.

Completely self-taught, Growden says she began experimenting with miniature making after coming across some YouTube videos of a girl making tiny food pieces. “I was working at an art supply store, so I just bought the supplies I needed there and went home to try making some mini food myself,” she recalled.

Take a look at some of her marvelous creations:

The post Rachel Growden’s Teeny-Tiny Food Items appeared first on MobiSpirit.

But she didn’t start out being a miniature artist. In fact, for over 20 years DomestiKate has worked in interior design and couture when she came to the realization that her work was too big. “I was making massive design decisions for clients, yet I wasn’t feeling that same big joy I was helping them to create,” she admits on her website.

Within days of this realization, a friend gifted her a distressed dollhouse. “I decided to renovate this gifted dollhouse as a design piece for my office and I GOT LOST IN CREATIVITY,” recalled DomestiKate. “I had fallen out of practice of actually MAKING. THIS is what I had been missing.”

The work itself was a challenge, but one that was worthwhile. “For me, joy comes from the craft,” she writes. “I like having paint under my fingernails and had forgotten how awesome it feels to stare at piles of assorted materials that are just waiting for me to morph them into something new, something different.”

Get lost inside her miniature worlds:

The post This Artist Has Shrunk Her Work to Miniature Scale appeared first on MobiSpirit.