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    QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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

    QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
    rashaye

    Prince SALIM/ JAHANGIR Mughal miniature

    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
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    Mar 01
    Jerome Gerace

    Origin of Miniature Painting?

    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.
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    Jul 27, 2021
    bridgette

    Materials & Methods

    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
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    Oct 05, 2020
    Nadia Bouhdili

    Signing your work

    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
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    Jun 25, 2020
    Mahnoor Ali

    Wasli packaging for shipment and framing

    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.
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    Feb 22
    Vaishali Prazmari

    ON GOLD IN REPRODUCTIONS AND PRINTS

    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
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    May 31, 2021
    rehana.sulaiman

    The first coat

    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
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    Jul 02, 2020
    Vaishali Prazmari

    THE MASTER-APPRENTICE RELATIONSHIP

    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
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    Jul 31, 2021
    Sarah Blick

    TRACING ORIGINALS

    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
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    May 16, 2021
    rehana.sulaiman

    Rendering

    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.
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    Jul 01, 2020

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