Tiny art

Lorraine Loots, an expert at creating tiny art “for ants,” is back with a new series of mind-bogglingly small (and beautiful) paintings of animals, space, and her favorite books. She plans to create 100 mini paintings and drawings throughout 2015, drawing them on themed days of the week - "Microcosm Mondays," "Tiny Tuesdays," "Fursdays" and "Free Fridays."

We often perceive giant, impressive, time-consuming artwork as better, but American miniaturist Brooke Rothshank shrinks our standards to a minimum while remaining incredibly intricate and immaculate. The Indiana-based artist paints tiny paintings of everyday things that surround her. It has become a precious diary of intimate moments from Rothshank‘s life that over 78k followers on Instagram can love and appreciate.

21K views · 2.2K likes | Kolbie Blume | Watercolor + Creative Practice on Instagram: "If it helps, you’re not really making “art” — you’re building memories for yourself. (And you’re also making art.) It’s just the memories and feelings that will honestly make the biggest difference in your life. Every time you use colors you love, every time you stumble on a happy little accident, every time you lose yourself to the flow of your brush dancing across the page? Memories. Tiny moments…

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SO SMOL. *squeals*

Since April 2011, art director and photographer Tatsuya Tanaka’s imagination has built a magnificent number of miniature worlds (previously here and here). Through the artist’s clever lens, everyday activities like construction work, walking the dog, getting a parking ticket, and plowing through a blizzard become delight-inducing scenarios. Tanaka also plays with pop culture references, building staple skyscrapers for Godzilla to prowl. You can see more from Tanaka’s ongoing Miniature…

I started doing miniature paintings as a daily exercise, primarily with the goal to paint more often and hone my skills for finer detail in smaller compositions. By the time I completed my first tiny painting, I was already fascinated by the amount of detail I was able to achieve on such a small surface and immediately wanted to paint another beautiful landscape. Despite my original worries of this exercise becoming tedious at best, these oil paintings quickly turned into my favorite part of…

Karen Libecap, a talented artist in Alabama, paints unbelievably tiny paintings of animals, objects and pop-culture characters. Some of her paintings are so tiny that they'd fit on the face of a coin!