Mini pieces of art
October 4th, 2006I read about these mini pieces of art on a few Yahell groups and saw examples on various blogs, but it wasn’t until I actually cut my ‘canvas’ that I realised what scale these pieces are. Can you imagine working on 1″ squares? Yes, 1″. We all know how big an inch is, right? But to make art in that size? Crazy…. yes?
I dug out my 1″ hole punch and punched myself a teensy little square and then sat and stared at it for ages while the possibilities sank in. I found some mis-sized ATCs that I had erroneously cut from watercolour paper ages ago, but saved ‘just in case’, and punched out 6 1″ squares from it. I had already painted the paper with an acrylic wash, so went over one of the squares with some distress inks, added my collage elements and edged it with brown marker. I sealed the square with gel medium just to make sure the collage elements didn’t fall off. Have you ever tried to glue down something that is so tiny that it keeps falling off every time you touch it?? 
I think for my next mini-collage I might add more background elements, or perhaps I might use some of my paper scraps.
For now, here’s my first mini-collage - Voila! (I didn’t count on losing the clarity of the image when trying to enlarge it for viewing)
