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NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Come across any new miniature-related exhibitions or exciting projects recently? Launched or completed your own?

INTRODUCE YOURSELF

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What initially sparked your interest in miniature painting? Where are you now on your journey? Where do you hope to go?

MATERIALS AND TOOLS

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All the essential equipment you need for miniature painting, reviews, tips and recommendations, where to buy..

MATERIALS
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TOOLS
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TUITION

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Want to learn miniature painting? Online and studio-based courses, classes, tailor made bespoke private lessons, tutors

CONTEXT, HISTORY, THEORY

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All about the wider world of miniature painting: style, line, shadow, perspective, memory, mastery, poetry...

FUN

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Put your brushes down for a mo, stretch your legs and arch your back, and come and have a cup of tea and a chit chat

FORUM FEEDBACK

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What do you think of the Conference of the Birds Miniature Painting Forum? How can it better?

ZOOM MONTHLY MINIATURE MEETING

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Welcome to our Monthly Miniature Meeting, free and open to all, usually on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Details and Zoom link here.

TRACK YOUR PROGRESS

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Share your work in progress, get feedback, ideas and support from the community, stay motivated and encourage others too

TECHNIQUES

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Tracing, transferring, inking in, colour filling, rendering, tapai, pardakht, shading, details, mi rang, siyah qalam...

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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Have a general concern or specific query about a painting you'd like to troubleshoot? Share your challenges and advice

RESOURCES

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Useful resources and information about miniature painting

WRITING & FILMS ABOUT PAINTING

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As a painter, I'm very inspired by writers writing about painting and love to read about it through their eyes. Do you?

MY NAME IS RED
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  • Vaishali Prazmari
    3d
    NATURAL PIGMENTS AND PAINTS
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    ... and the storage thereof!
  • Mary Yaeger
    May 05
    Trying to find this miniature from a tiny photo!
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    I am trying to locate the source of an image that appears on the back dust cover of my copy of The Spirit of Indian Painting (Goswamy): I couldn't find a credit for this image in the Goswamy text. It is very tiny on the back cover. On a Google reverse image search, only a few rug advertisements came up. I could recreate and work out my design idea from its layout, but I always like to reference my sources. Is anyone familiar with this type of image, and where do you suggest I look to find out more?
  • Nadia Madden
    3d
    Travelling Apprentice Workshop
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    Hello Everyone: I had an idea that I floated at this month's workshop, thoroughly inspired by Vaishali's "Carpet Pages IV" project---why don't we students try on the different roles of miniature painting apprentices, mailing the work to the next artist after each round? One of us can draw/trace an outline, the next person can gild, the next can color fill and burnish, then someone can work on pardakht, and then another person can do the final outline, and maybe another person can do the borders....and we can share the whole process here on the forum/instagram/wherever else we'd like! What do you all think? tagging people i know on here but this could be open to anyone who would like to join: @Alison Guest @Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes @Anastasia Doran @Ary Nassiri @Bonny W @Cécilia Duminuco @Dominique Fayad @Fatma Gadhoumi @Geeta @Genève @Karima Cammell @Mary Yaeger @Nadia Bouhdili @Pranav Prakash @rehana.sulaiman @safar04 @Sara @Sharmina Haq @Sheetle Shah @Yasmin Solomon If you like the idea, please reply with a picture you'd like us to apprentice on together. or perhaps we could get @Vaishali Prazmari to assign us one and make it a new course offering....