QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Hello everyone! I am dreaming up a birthday gift for my dear husband - a rendering of his favourite emperor Jahangir. I'd like to reproduce this painting: https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/arts-of-the-islamic-world-l09723/lot.43.html Do you have any favourite books or websites th

I purchased this Miniature painting at a consignment shop, and I was wondering if anyone in the group could help identify the origin and/or the language on the back of the painting. I appears to be a page from a very old book.

Hi thank you for making this available! I have five questions. How do you store your shells so they don’t flake into each other? Little shelf? Plastic baggies? Do you add any gum to that dot of shell gold? I have some just like it from ages ago and it put sparkles over my page when I tried to bu

Hello all! I am very nearly done with my first miniature painting, and I am a bit stuck about the sign-or-not-to sign question. I'm so used to seeing "unsigned" miniatures, that I hesitate to sign mine, even though ultimately I think that I will. Just wondering: do you all sign your miniatures? Your

Hi Friends! Can someone please guide me how should a wasli of size 22" x 28" be shipped abroad. i mean how should i pack it for safe shipment? O have to ship it from Pakistan to UK. And is there any framers in Manchester, UK who can frame wasli in a best way.

Thanks to @Kathlyn Powell for bringing this up and everyone else @Cécilia Duminuco for their input. Regarding the gold in reproductions: it seems like a perennial problem because gold and colours seem to cancel each other out. This happens in real life too - there is kind of a 'double viewing' o

Hello everyone! Just wanted to see if anyone can post a photo of what the very first coat of paint is supposed to look like before the rendering begins? Is it an absolute thin wash or slightly thicker? Still trying out my paints to get the right consistency...mine tends to pool into a point once dri

The Master-Apprentice relationship I can’t get this out of my mind. I’ll try to keep it opinion-free as far as I can and stick to the questions. Here’s what I’ve been thinking about recently. This is in note form as I have no easy answers - and I look forward to your responses! - only questions. I’m

I'm very new to Miniature Painting and just doing the Introductory course with Vaishali. I'd really like to use this painting of Seemorgh and Zaal as my chosen image to reproduce and learn from, but am struggling to find an image that is high enough resolution to print in A4 size. The only images I

Hello again everyone! Posting a photo of some of my colour trials and a small trial on rendering. Any help/feedback most appreciated xx I think the patch just below the one marked no. 2 seems to be the closest to the original.