ARTS AND MINIATURES: A few acquisitions and a warm welcome to my new Followers

quinta-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2010

A few acquisitions and a warm welcome to my new Followers

First of all I would like to welcome my new Followers, thank you very much for following my Blog.

And finally today I found some time to make a few photos of the miniatures I bought at the Madrid Fair, as soon as possible I will take some more pictures of my acquisitions.

The Fair had so much attractions, and it was difficult to choose, here I´ll show you some of my options.

Lovely miniatures from http://www.twinheart.com/

I´m fond of these fishes with their big eyes and elegant tales, I found them very real and the aquariums are made of glass

The photo was made against a painting on silk from Thailand inspired on those fishes

Three miniature orchids photographed against real flowers

More flowers from http://www.twinheart.com/ they are very well done. At the backgrounf I put a photo of a lovely Edwardian Conservatory, just for my inspiration

I bought them thinking of my future green house

A miniature structure of a fan nearby a real French fan, I hope to decorate it some day...

A book for my greenhouse with engravins of birds, I found it lovely

A cute little doll

The same doll photographed together an antique doll, it is real tiny.

7 comentários:

Maia's Twinkle Miniatures9 de dezembro de 2010 às 16:22
Such beautiful pieces! And your pictures are lovely too. :)
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Sans!9 de dezembro de 2010 às 16:39
Ana, they are all beautiful acquisitions :). The next time you visi Thailand, you must pop over to Singapore to visit me :).
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Unknown10 de dezembro de 2010 às 05:21
Congrats on your beautiful purchases! we have had one of those fishes our self...it was a black one....love there tails...

your pics are a treet for the eye, thank you for sharing!

Sabihax
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LaBelleCuisine Miniaturas / ShabbyParis Dolls11 de dezembro de 2010 às 15:03
Que compras fantásticas, Ana, adorei os aquários e acho os peixes muito engraçados!
A feira foi boa para ti?
Bjinhos!
Marina
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Norma Bennett14 de dezembro de 2010 às 14:09
I didn't receive a notification of this post Ana so my visit is a little late. You have bought some really lovely things at the fair. I really love the idea of your greenhouse project and you have so many interesting pieces for it already.
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Ascension22 de dezembro de 2010 às 12:33
Que fantasticas compras, las peceras son preciosas.
besitos ascension
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Ana22 de dezembro de 2010 às 12:47
A little late but thank you all for your appreciation,
Ana
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Welcome to my new Blog

I hope that you will enjoy my new Blog, I intend to organize it in a diferent way of the others, I will mix images of my work regarding miniatures and other forms of art like artistic paint, but I will also include lots of photos , because I have a passion to photograph, although I know very litttle about it, but I have my artistic filling to choose interesting matters. All the photos in this Blog shall be mine.

In which concerns my miniatures all of them are hand painted, and that´s a work that I love to do, enjoy it.

You are also invited to visit my other blog:

http://am-ambientes-em-miniatura.blogs.sapo.pt/

http://am-artes-e-miniaturas.blogs.sapo.pt/

http://am-bonecas-e-companhia.blogs.sapo.pt/

AM

HERCOLANEUM AND POMPEII

Hercolaneum was founded by Hercules according to mythological tradition . In 63A.D. the town was hit by a earthquake which attended all the Campania, and a few years later in 79 A.D. was devasted by the eruption of Vesuvios. When the eruption ended Hercolaneum was covered with a thick layer of mud (at some points over 10 meters deep). Abandoned by its inhabitants this town was never rebuilt.

The same happened to Pompeii, the reconstruction work that followed the earthquake was not yet completed when on August 24th, 79 AD Vesuvius unexpectedly awoke, submerging the countryside with ashes,, cinder and eruptive material, while rivers of lava mixed with mud followed down.

In 20 AD the Volcano was considered extinct by Strabone a geographer, therefore the population was taken by surprise and many of them were killed trying to escape. The eruption of the Volcano was so imense that the top part of the crater collapsed forming the present caldera.

This tragedy that lasted for three long days arrived to us through the letters of the writter Pliny the Younger to Tacitus.
Pompeii remained buried under a layer of ash with more than six meters deep preserving all the evidence of life by that moment, which came mericulously to light more than two centuries ago.