Friday, 30 December 2011

A tiny artist


The last of my presents to family is this little offering which was a gift for my wife. Finding and painting a figure for the wife proved quite difficult as she is an artist herself I wanted to paint an artisty figure. This provided near impossible, and I ended up having to sort of make my own.

The figure is from Hasslefree miniatures with some small alterations by me. Namely the outstretched hand used to have a magic wand in it, I turned this into a little brush with some putty. The other hand did hold a baseball bat, this was also cut down and made to look brush like with some putty. The easel is cocktail sticks with a card "canvas".

I painted the figure in purple and blues as these are her favourite colours, I'm quite pleased with the result although I have another idea for her birthday which should work out better!
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8 comments:

  1. Michael Awdry30 December 2011 at 03:25

    A beautiful gift Sir; I'm sure she was delighted. I've got to say I've really enjoyed these posts and may I ask where you got your plinths from?

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  2. Smillie30 December 2011 at 03:40

    Thanks Michael, they were fun to do. If you look on the list on the right of the blog the "model stands" link is the company I bought them from.

    The Companies called "allwoodsdirect" they have a huge range of plinths etc and quite reasonable priced. I got mine from the clearance area.

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  3. pulpcitizen30 December 2011 at 04:53

    Superb idea. I hope she enjoyed the gift. :)

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  4. Anatoli31 December 2011 at 06:11

    That was a very clever use of the miniature!

    Happy New Year to you Smillie :-)

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  5. Smillie31 December 2011 at 07:57

    Cheers Anatoli, same to you.

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  6. PanzerKaput31 December 2011 at 09:49

    That is a lovely gift for a lovely lady. Very clever and a good use of figures.

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  7. The Angry Lurker3 January 2012 at 04:54

    Simply brilliant......

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  8. Captain Richard's miniature Civil War27 January 2012 at 17:04

    THAT is impressive

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