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]]>Lemon was born and raised in Japan, but she ended up moving to the UK about a decade ago. She holds a B.A. in Film and Media and an M.A. in Freelance Photography, and she mostly worked as a freelance photographer until the pandemic hit.
Lemon rediscovered her passion for miniature art during this time, using everything from clay, wood, and paper to build tiny homes filled with miniature houseplants.
“I really wanted to do something creative so I decided to play around with air-drying clay in my drawer. I am a crazy collector of houseplants and I tried to make my dream mini home full of them,” she told Mirror.
Lemon’s fantasy miniature homes are filled with vintage furniture and appliances, but there’s a reason why none of them is complete without plants. The beauty of nature has always been her main source of inspiration, and her miniature art allowed her to explore it through a whole new medium.
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Miniature wooden housesFor miniature creator Marina Paredes, the passion for miniature art sparked long before Covid. A dollhouse expert, over the years she has amassed more than 50k followers on Instagram. Rather than realistic recreations, Paredes’ work has a naive quality to it—the sort of dollhouse you might’ve dreamed of as a small child.
Working mainly with wood, Paredes uses both softwoods like balsa and hardwood like linden. “I like to use it because it is a very versatile material,” she shared about her creative process with The Daily Mini. For added interior details, Paredes uses clay. She then paints the finished piece with acrylic paint.
According to, Paredes she finds inspiration in architecture, design, colorful objects, and decoration. But her original source of inspiration comes straight from her childhood when she used to play with Polly Pocket sets.
“The first miniature I made was when I was around 10 years old,” she recalled. “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.”
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]]>Most recently, we’ve come across Dina Brodsky’s miniature paintings. As it turns out, painting small comes naturally to Brodsky. “When I paint small I’m like a fish in water,” she shared with Whitehot Magazine. “I am much less comfortable painting on a larger scale, and very few of my large works hold up as well as the miniatures.”
Her miniatures include representations of natural landscapes, animals, and architecture. There’s also a series dedicated to seemingly empty rooms, finely painted—a sort of peephole, presenting snapshots of everyday life.
According to Brodsky, her painting technique relies on a combination of classical oil painting techniques (15th century Northern Renaissance methods and 17th-century Venetian techniques) alongside contemporary materials such as mylar and plexiglass.
“When I was studying, the things I had trouble with had more to do with drawing, proportion, perspective, anatomy, architecture,” she notes. “I feel like I am still catching up and trying to master a lot of those things. But color has always come organically.”
Born in Minsk, Belarus, Brodsky moved to the US in 1991 where she studied at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, before earning her MFA at the New York Academy of Art. These days, she also runs online seminars, teaching others how to build an engaged community online, so as to enhance their online presence.
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]]>Tanaka draws inspiration for his creations from multiple sources. Sometimes he recreates scenes from ordinary life, while other times, he reflects on current trends and events happening around the world. Recently, he did several miniature scenes to commemorate the ongoing Winter Olympics in Beijing, including staging an ice-skating race on a disposable face mask.
What makes Tanaka’s works even more impressive is the fact that he has been creating a new scene every day for more than a decade. He originally started sharing his creations on his website in early 2011 and made a point to himself to upload one new scene each day until he ran out of ideas. Impressively, that still hasn’t happened, and the talented artist still manages to keep the same creative pace without missing a beat. To date, he made more than 4,000 entries to his Miniature Calendar project.
“Everyday occurrences seen from a miniature perspective can bring us lots of fun thoughts,” Tanaka explains.
Check out more of his works below.
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]]>After successful careers in interior design and fashion for over 20 years, she rediscovered her passion for design through miniatures. But like most miniature enthusiasts, her love for all things tiny began much earlier. “When I was 7 years old, my dad built me a dollhouse,” she recalled in an interview with The Daily Mini, “and what I remember most about it was playing with the interior design, rather than any make-believe!”
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. . . #rainbowbaby #shelfie #rainbowbooks #bookshelf #miniature #oneinchscale #tinythings #dollhouse #domestikate #addgold #ikeamini #crafttherainbowAccording to Strzinek, she would lay at the edge of her bed and stare at the dollhouse, visualizing different arrangements of the furniture. “Ultimately, I had much more fun moving the tiny furniture and crafting pieces out of paper than would moving figures around to create narratives about their lives,” she admits. “It was likely from that point onward that I realized I’m a very visual person who simply loves crafting with my hands, including painting little pieces and just tinkering around.”
Based in Austin, TX, where she shares a home with her husband and teenage children, Strzinek enjoys learning and growing in her craft, and might just inspire you to tag along. “Yes, there are amazing artists out there… but the learning process is so joyful,” she notes. “Train your brain to scan for everyday items to reuse in miniature, because you truly don’t need to spend a ton of money. Just stay to play. When you get hooked, the rest will come naturally. Join me!”
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]]>In response to his love of nature, Almeda created his own small portable pottery wheel to take out on location and create pieces outside in the open air – a practice known as plein air pottery. According to his website, his practice is a response to the colors, energies, textures, and composition found in nature: the cool dark waters and tall evergreens of the Pacific Northwest and the luscious flora and textures of the ocean in Hawaii.
A self-taught artist, his craft was learned through trial and error. After years of creating large scale pieces with a “bigger is better” mentality, he switched gears when coming across a book called “Creating Ceramic Miniatures”. Challenging himself, he soon discovered that working small was much harder then he imagined. He tested different clay bodies, made his own tools, and tried new techniques to improve the detail of each new piece.
After 17 years of creating miniatures, Almeda is still challenging himself to improve and to try new things with each kiln load. His challenges now include a change of scenery, as he shares videos of him enjoying a sunset near the water, while creating his miniature works. But Almeda’s pieces are impressive even without context, and look exactly like their larger counterpart in detail and proportion. His glazes are varied and rich and each piece is truly a one of kind. Take a look for yourself:
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]]>Based in Nashville, Growden explains that her interest in miniatures really stems from her love of fake food and the realization that minis could be a relatively easy way to reproduce all kinds of food. But like most miniature enthusiasts, her fascination with all things tiny sparked earlier on, when she was just a child.
cherry pie commission“My earliest memory with miniatures is when I was just a kid,” she shared in an interview with the Daily Mini. “I would make tiny pies and sandwiches for my American Girl dolls, using instructions from one of the American Girl craft books. The pies were made with seed beads, felt, and bottle caps. The sandwiches were made with cork board and rubber bands. I loved how the materials mimicked real food.”
As an adult, Growden would be reminded of her fascination with miniature art while browsing YouTube and coming across videos of a girl making miniature pastries, fast food, and candy. “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 recalls.
“One of my favorite mini scenes I have ever made was a bunch of Halloween treats in the kitchen: ghost and pumpkin cookies, orange and black cupcakes, candied apples, even a tiny bag of candy corn,” she notes. “I think scenes look best when you add as much detail and variety as possible.” Scroll down to see more of her work, and follow her Instagram page for more.
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]]>According to Saraiva, she enjoys most creating miniature representations of houses seen in horror movies. “I love the idea of taking some of my favorite homes and bringing them to life in miniature form to display,” she told The Daily Mini. “They are also my most challenging pieces, which in the end gives me the most satisfaction when finally complete.”
Like most miniature artists, Saraiva’s fascination with tiny figurines began early on. “I’ve been collecting 7′ figures for years, and with that I began doing toy photography for fun,” she notes. “That hobby slowly led me to the idea of creating miniature props and scale backgrounds/dioramas for more realistic photos. From that point on, I found that my love for miniatures was growing daily and this inspired me to take my ideas down a few scales.”
But surprisingly enough, she admits to being equally fascinated with horror films as a small child. “My love with horror definitely began around the age of 5, when I snuck into the living room while The Exorcist was on TV,” she recalls. “My fascination overpowered the fear I felt at the time which slowly turned into an obsession: the thrill of being frightened.”
Enjoy some of her work in the gallery below. Either that or prepare to be spooked.
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]]>“Mini yemek (or minyatur yemek) means mini food,” Caglayan explained in an interview with The Daily Mini. Based in Istanbul, Turkey, she has her own mini kitchen – in a scale of 1:12 – equipped with everything she needs.
Her dishes include traditional Turkish food, all made with entirely edible ingredients. “Turkish food is magnificent and it’s so much more than just kebab! ” she added. “There are lots of materials and cooking techniques.” According to Caglayan, her practice allows her to introduce Turkish cuisine to the world in a fun way.
Aside from her buzzing Instagram page, she also has a YouTube channel, where she shares miniature food tutorials. In fact, it was food videos that sparked the inspiration for her page in the first place. “I love watching miniature cooking videos,” she says. “When I saw that no one from my country had made such videos, I wanted to be the first to do it and I achieved this goal.”
Peek inside her miniature kitchen:
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]]>Zooming in on his neighborhood located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Leshko studies its building facades from observations and photographs. Anything from dumpsters to shabby storefronts is painstakingly recreated, adding up to a three-dimensional archive of the buildings surrounding him. “My project with the buildings in my neighborhood is just that, a documentary project or archiving project,” he remarked in an interview with The Daily Mini.
Highlighting the typically overlooked details that make up a neighborhood, as well as the overall sense of decay and neglect, his work might also be understood as a social critique about the ways in which society is constantly disposing of its past. “There is something inside of me that pushes me to take on these works,” says Leshko, “but I can’t identify what that is.”
Exhibited internationally and included in the permanent collection of the Urban Nation Museum (Berlin) and the Dean Collection (NYC), you can also view his miniature models online, via Instagram:
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