Judy H. - Small is the New Big - Miniature Art
Small
is the New Big
Judy
Hierstein
Sept 5, 2025
First,
to whet your appetite:
Tiny
Things
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14Hvm8TF21W/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Next, meet our artist:
Rachel Spelling
studiospelling.com
Rachel writes:
“In case you’re new here, here’s the background to this piece in a nutshell. In 2020, during the first Covid 19 lockdown, I shrank my work, and went from painting huge walls in grand houses to tiny walls on paint charts. This is a print of the original full Farrow and Ball colour chart where it all started. For me the whole project is very much wrapped up in the lockdown - it was a time when our experience of the outside world had to sit in the dreamworld of our imagination. The images I painted are full of mystery and suggestion. They are like tiny snippets of a film or lines from a book. They hint at other places and moments. Imagined worlds. And the paintings are tiny. The pandemic made all of our worlds shrink and the walls of our home took on a whole new significance. Our walls were our world. So in many ways this piece is a diary of that strange time that we shared in 2020.”
Rachel’s
previous BIG work:
Facebook
Demo:
www.facebook.com/reel/912016400823588
www.facebook.com/reel/1010284217828714
You
will need:
A
sample paint chip card and/or paint chips available from any paint
store (Home Depot)
Liquid
acrylic in assorted colors
Very small brushes, pointy and
flat
Hair Dryer
An idea of what small thing to paint
A
few tips:
I
noticed Rachel often painted her objects in a white “silhouette”
first and let that dry.
She also painting backgrounds in one swipe across the tiny chip with her brush loaded with more paint on one side than the other.
See examples below:
Recording
 | Duration: 02:01:18 Passcode: Z3*02JC8 |
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