Mini works of art

Works of art come in many shapes and sizes, but I am fascinated by the tiny ones. Giant wall filling artworks certainly are imposing and make a huge statement, but tiny, mini little artworks fill me with more delight than most of the grandiose ones that can sometimes be a bit over powering. Below are 5 little pieces that fill me heart with joy.

Tiny Pretty Things is a shop full of tiny beautiful artworks. Molly's work has a huge sense of fun and joy. This pink elephant with miniature wings just makes me giggle, as there is no way those wings will get this rolypoly giant up into the sky.

Rollo the bear from Little Scruffs is as much a work of art as any oil painting or stone sculpture. From the materials chosen to make him to the carefully chosen stuffing and the added black stitching to add to the look of age this bear is a miniature work of art.

Picciolo's work always wows me. The colour choices always work so well together and the fabrics are used just like paint and I always feel the pieces made deserve to be hung on the wall or stood on a plinth. This print is one in a series of prints of original sewn work by the lady called "leaf".

Unique Items 4 U little picture of robots was sure to catch my eye. I'm an utter robot lover. This mini picture is charming. I hope the lady robot shows him lots of love and accepts and cares for his heart.

Pippin Designs is another artist working in fabric and thread. Many may as that this isn't art, but I just see it as painting or sculpting in fabric. It takes just as much skill to make art pieces like these as it takes to paint or sculpt in more traditional media.

Yay, for mini art. Not only is it beautiful, but because of it's size you can fit more of it into your home! I'm planning on dedicating a whole wall in my hallway to mini art when we build our new house and I will have wall to wall, ceiling to floor works of art.

Written by Lynne of Pirate Pixie Crew and Hyperloop Hoops

Artfire Europe Guild

Today I thought I'd share with you all some of the work I like from the Artfire Europe Guild members. I thought I'd pick a bit of a child's theme after reading the blog of The Toy Society and did a bit of research into what they did and what they were all about. Please go over and have a look around their blog and see if you can support them in anyway. They have such a simple, but wonderful thing going on. They deserve lots of support.

arbOOz created this gorgeous picture of chirpy little birdies on a purple background with orange branches. I love the bright cheerful colours and the simplicity of the shapes. It would look fabulous on a nursery wall.

Blue Shed Crafts has made this cute trio of hand knitted bunnies. They look so cuddly. Each one is a different colour and they are just the right size for cwtching down in bed, sucking your thumb and rubbing your nose with their big floppy ears... or is it just me that does that?

Dish Dash Bags has made this lovely 50's style space fabric purse. Retro is so in now and any little girl or boy would love this to keep crayons in. They will be the envy of all their friends when they get this out of their bag and slap it down on the colouring in table at nursery school.

Ignis Fatuus's sheep are so flippin gorgeous! How much fun would it be to have a whole flock of these baa lambs on your bookshelf? Each one is slightly different because they are hand crafted which is great! Real sheep are all slightly different too. The maker of these is 86, so it just proves you are never too old to let your talents shine.

Fugsly's print of one of her original acrylic paintings makes me smile. I love the way the little girl figure looks like she is trying to figure out how to get down from the star whilst the little boy looks like he is resigned to the fact he is stuck on the star for now. Fabulous!

The Artfire Europe guild has many talented people as members, visit our blog where you can find links to all our shops in the right hand sidebar if you feel like taking a look for yourselves. Don't forget to check out what The Toy Society do and show them some love and support for all the good work they are doing.

Written by Lynne of PiratePixieCrew and Hyperloop Hoops