Here is a step by step of a recent miniature painting that I was commissioned to paint of a canadian goose. This painting is 3 1/2 inches x 4 1/2 inches.
Here I am presenting “Majestic Passage” to Mike of Minnesota Ducks Unlimited.
My mom, Karen, was the 2005 Minnesota Ducks Unlimited Artist of the Year featuring her painting of a pair of ring-neck ducks. Rebeccas painting of a canadian goose was chosen for the 2006 Minnesota Ducks Unlimited Artist of the Year. This year I am honored to have been chosen as the 2007 Ducks Unlimited Artist of the Year. I am looking forward to be working with Ducks Unlimited in the following year.
This is one of my recent paintings "Tranquility" of a mute swan that has been accepted into the 46th Annual Art and the Animal Exhibition. The show will be September 15 - November 30, 2006 in Bennington, VT. This is the finished painting from an earlier post.
bonnie@lathamstudios.com
Bonnie Latham, an artist in her twenties, began her art career at a very young age. Inspired by her creative family and their love of the outdoors, she paints nature, landscape, animals, birds, and the occasional portrait. She works in watercolour, acrylic, oil, inks, graphite/charcoal and others, however watercolours have become her medium of choice. She achieves a unique quality of depth and shape in her work, drawing the viewer into her paintings. Bonnie works in a assortment of sizes and formats, ranging from larger miniature paintings to very small miniature paintings rendered less than one square inch.
The original meaning of the term miniature refers to technique and not size - it means to paint very detailed. Often it's called painting "in miniature" and it has been stated that a piece of art that is as large as a wall could be painted in miniature. My family and I paint in that style exclusively and have done extensive research as well as talking to quite a few experts about it. Here is a little more in depth information.
Tiffy :)
Favorite Quotes
"No amount of skilful invention can replace the essential element of imagination." - Edward Hopper
"As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward." Vincent van Gogh 1853 - 1890
" A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places." - Paul Gardner