This weekend.
I will be taking some very reasonably priced paper pictures as well as the dolls and assorted porcelain miniatures.
As you can see these are bass reliefs. As you cannot see they actually look better than this because the photo that I edited a bit, turning up the light, had been saved somewhere in the computer. Here’s another very unimproved photo
plenty of cats. Well, it’s me, there will be cats.
These paper pictures I make by modelling the original, making a silicone mould and then an impress in paper clay. Once the paper clay has dried I can sand it, so the back is flat, and paint it. I varnish the end result, which, being made of paper, is light and very suitable for sticking on the sort of house that is made from cardboard boxes. The method of production is faster than thinking what to paint and painting each picture individually. The speed is reflected in the price, prices start at £3 which is utterly amazing for an original work of art. If I do ever get to publish the novel and become a famous writer and all that, you’ll have an original work of art made by a famous writer for £3.
Crikey, imagine if it were Dickens, what the Dickens would you give for a picture made by Dickens in his own fair mit? Blimey if he’d sneezed on it you would have his DNA. Or a quick wooden pipe whittled by Shakespeare, what would that be worth? Or Chaucer’s ham sandwich? Or Kipling’s sliver paper goblet made from a sweetie wrapper?
Of course mine are better than all of these because even if I don’t become famous (you never know, I might and then you’ll know someone famous – imagine that!) they are very reasonably priced, very nice and sometimes funny, little paper pictures for your dolls house and even the £3 ones come in a proper box and a nice gift bag, because the other half of the joy of the fair is the getting home with the little paper bags of treasure.
Which might even turn out to be treasure from a famous writer, maybe. Eventually, possibly.
Meanwhile Miniatura which really is the mostest famousest dolls house show in the world ever, according to me and a load of other people, featuring famous artists working in miniature and coming from all over the planet to exhibit in a weekend of absolute happiness and art, famously, in miniature.
As always details at www.miniatura.co.uk
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