Experimenting with light teal color

I love playing around with colors. In fact I find great joy in painting my dollhouse miniatures with different types of paints, colors, whatever I can get my hands on and seeing the effect.

I remembered trying out the teal color for the first time a few months ago, and boy I hated it. It was very pigmented, heavy and sort of dark. I usually fall for teal/turquoise, but this was a teal that I didn't like. At that moment, I lost interest in it totally and kept it aside.

I found a picture in one of my favorite japanese decor magazine which inspired me and I whipped up a dollhouse miniature screen. I've not finished making it into a folding screen yet, but will soon continue with it. As I worked on it, I decided on how I would utilize the light teal color. With the help of a lot of water, I  dilute the color, and I was immensely pleased to see this. 

The screen on the bottom is the result of the heavily diluted teal colour without any texturing. You cannot imagine how heavy the original teal color was. The screen on the top was further textured.

This light teal color just pops! 

I'm happy I got these colors to work now. Today I'm going to do more work on these....

Clay Miniatures Workshop - Let's Bake Macarons!

I'm pleased to present my newest clay miniatures workshop entitled “Let’s Bake Macarons”.   Its inspiration is an imaginary vision of a baking table scene filled with all things related to macarons. 

For years I’ve held onto a baking table in my collection stash.  I’ve had many small ideas over time for how I wanted to use it, and finally nailed down a completed vision for it 2 months ago.

I painted the table white, and did not want to change the color scheme.   Because of my love for colourful macarons, I decided to do a macaron baking scene. 

I estimate that this 1:12 scale dollhouse miniatures workshop will take a minimum of 10 hours to complete. The macaron tower itself, will take 2 hours or more.  Some wood work, along with sculpting work will be taught in this workshop. 

Because of all the details included in this miniature baking scene, I am confident that this will be something that you can enjoy holding onto and looking at for the longest time when it is completed.

More details of the "Let's Bake Macarons" workshop can be found here.

Experimenting new paint for dollhouse miniatures

Part of what I really love doing is constantly experimenting new products, such as air dry clay or paints. So whenever I chance upon something I think is interesting to use for my dollhouse miniatures, I'm excited to try and see the effect. Not everything works, but that's part of learning ;)

I'm kind of obsessed with colours, especially with paints. So I was really happy to give this new colour a try. It's called "dressing table blue". What a beautiful name! And it comes with an equally beautiful soft shade of bluish green.

I worked on a new 1:12 scale kitchen island table right after I finish making a white dessert hutch for a customer. Since I was already in the mood, and the lessons were fresh in my mind, I quickly put together this kitchen island table.

Here, I've a photo to showcase the height comparison of the dessert hutch and the kitchen island table.

The blue kitchen island table is a tad shorter, but it looks cute, I think :) I imagine it to be used as a side table to display your goodies, in a kitchen setting, or bakery, patisserie or even a gift shop!

Altogether, there are 3 surfaces to display your stuff, that should be fun!

 I love how smooth and creamy the paint is. No lumps or anything. Painting has always been an enjoyable activity for me, and this is even more so with a good paint.

The new 1:12 kitchen island table is now available in my store under Miniature Kitchen section.