Small Art (SmArt)

These are really small projects done in 1/144 scale.  A standard dollhouse is 1/12 scale, i.e. 1″ in the model represents 12″ in ‘real life’.  If you wanted to make a dollhouse for a 1/12 scale dollhouse, you would use 1/144 scale.

Crazy?  Yes.  Fun?  Definitely.

This stump is a piece of cork which was very easy to carve, and that’s why it has so many nooks and crannies to explore. It’s home to a tiny creature. Not sure exactly what it is. It’s very shy and has never been seen.

 

A well tended garden is just outside the back door.

 

 

Sandy’s Garden.

 

Sandy’s Garden, reverse side

 

This 2′ piece of oak was salvaged from a lot that had been bulldozed. It’s a work in progress, named The Swordfish because of the way it looks from a certain angle.

Chicken Dinner. This is 1/12 scale, but small enough as a piece that I decided it qualified for this post.

Enchanted

Fairy house, gnome home or mouse house, you be the judge.  Everything used in this house was found, not bought; disassembled and reassembled; bashed, broken, glued, painted, and tweaked every which way.

 

The shell of the house was falling apart and some of the roof was missing. It was going in the trash until it was saved at the last minute for this crazy little project.

 

 

 

 

 

Before and After: Fairy Chair

 

 

 

 

Fairies can’t be expected to bathe in an ordinary bathtub.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fairy Doors

In the late winter of 2014, the OSU Botanic Garden had an infestation of fairies.  During that year, sharp-eyed visitors were able to spot more than a dozen diminutive portals to fairy homes.  A small, secretive group of volunteers monitored the doors throughout the year to make sure the fairies were not disturbed.  You don’t want to make a fairy mad!  Here is a sampling of the doors which the many artistic fairies created.