Miniature Installation Art

1. Introduction: Hi everyone. I am teepee on the street. A few, Melvin. Thank you so much for having me. I'm delighted to be presenting review, working with you. So I think hopefully we can just have a lot of fun together doing this. I'm a miniature installation artist in Milman. There's various names I suppose with within the hour swirled. So I'm an artist, doctest and installation artist. A sculpture artist is all various toggles that people dv, essentially just, I'm, I'm an artist, but I do silent installation artists because I worked with little miniature of the grains, which I think you've probably already seen through my Instagram and also through your inspiration page that I believe you've been working on. I started just a little bit of background about me. I started probably about five years ago. Not long in the world of art, I suppose. And I just started installing funny little scenes on the street. And I'll just do it for my amusement really, I didn't think it would kind of blow up into something that people really loved him and followed. So that's been a really nice Plus has come out of that. As a result of that, I have had my own studio now when just Studios, which is where we are here today, I have called Calton studio because I like color and vibrance, background or really enjoy that. And within blender these about 23 artists. So it's one big studio and we all have our own small studios within that. Oh, I've been plan so we can kind of collaborate, work together, socialized chats, and we get a lot of inspiration and motivation from one another as well, which is a really great thing about having a studio, a shared studio. So here we are. We'll do a little quick tour and the studio in alignment just so that I can, I can show you what the space is lacking. Where a school might try new things. 2. Studio Tour: Okay. So just a quick tour around the senior and I didn't have a just why cabinet with my work in x and when we have chosen come through, they can see what I'm working on. This is just my desk that I do all of my work from. Sorry, usually surround myself with some pieces, all the glue, all the grass, a little bit of washing. And then I come over here and this is where I store absolutely everything. It's important to be organized so well for me at least. So yeah, I just have all of my containers labeled. Eggshells, talk rot a litters, food, golf balls, whatever. I'm Nate, I can just come in here and grab from from a little box that's labeled. So that's essentially the core parts of my studio. 3. Getting Started: So today we'll walk you through how to create a miniature stain of your eye. I think for me it's really important when I use an object, like I often use vintage or found objects in my artworks. So the bass that the artwork sits on is usually an old object. So when you're looking around your house for an item that you're going to use for your artwork today. I just want you to be mindful and keep an open mind about what you can use. For me. I just automate because my brain is wired to humor. I already know when I see something with arguments that are not, you might just have to think about what you can use in your icon as advice for you our work. So that might be an old camera, for example. We've got one here. This is something I found in an up-shot. It's got a nice flat base. It's a beautiful camera and I know that I can probably do a really cute saying on the top of that. You could use a piece of plastic, fruit, like for example, this banana. It's just plastic. It was from an op shop. And I also like to use items that I know will have a comedic value to it. So obviously, with a camera and you can make a funny joke about shooting or other photos. The banana, obviously, we have some humor around that because what happens when you slip on a banana peel, you fall over. So instantly in your brain that they could be jerk attached to that item. I've got a lovely old shell. I don't know whether you've collected. And then the beach, you can use a rock, you can use pretty much anything. As long as you kind of think that it can be upon or, or something funny that will come. So I really like to use these old vintage items when you're looking around. He has I mean, you could use a spring, you could use a teabag, lucky, sorry, different little things you could use. So just keep your mind open. Don't, you don't have to think or going through something like a little box, you can use anything. I'm sure. You'll find some items around your private that you'll see differently now that you know that you're going to create an artwork with that. 4. Concept: So when I think about the conjugate from my outwards, so there's a number of things I consider before I start doing anything. Firstly, it's the humor of orbits. So the objects have to at least at a loss for me before I know it's probably the ripening server, for example, a site banana, or as the base of the ocean. And also the miniatures are the mutual little characters. They have to be doing something that can work on that particular base. I consider the humor around all that. So perhaps a little accident that the miniatures had on a banana or something like that. I also consider site specific details. So am I going to be installing on the street? Should I be looking up or down on the drain or up in a hole in the wall are considered the audience. So who, who will be looking at it? Or they can be children, or they can be businesspeople. Are they going to be people on a, on a tour or just wandering around the line y is so. And there's a vast array of, of audience, people in an audience, it could look at the work. So I do have to consider who might be looking at it. And also, is it going to be as simple installation? Is it going to be a complex one? Sometimes Mindstorms are going to be really, really simple or really complicated and that's fine. It doesn't, it can still have the same human attached to either doesn't matter. Ones complicated or money simple. And also just back to the specific, sometimes installations for art galleries. So it will be a more polished look. So it might be in a glass doin with a little base, something that would suit in art gallery, maybe more than what might suit something straight. So I think the main, mostly the concept is very focused on where you live, arch and having a laugh and what other people might find funny. So as you know, with my artworks, there is always upon or funny caption. To me, that is 50% of the artwork. So without that funny caption, when people look my artwork, there's no context. So the plan is just as important as the ST itself. So when you're working on your artwork today and next week, I just want you to have a beer. Think about what you find funny and what you think other people might want money. You don't. I mean, we all, we all have a great sense of humor. I have sometimes a beautiful warped sense of humor, but we all know how to laugh. We all know have lovely joke to tell a joke. So we all have it within us. Doing stress of having to come up with a completely new artwork. Just sit with it. Flow maybe could talk to family or friends about some ideas that you have. But whatever you do, don't, don't rush that. Just enjoy that process of coming up with some word play around the artwork that enduring because that for me is a really important part of the process and a really enjoyable part. So just make sure your environment and really enjoying what you're doing, that and having a bit of a gig or to yourself, that will make you feel good about what you're doing. And that will also come through in your artwork. And it will also come through for other people looking at your artwork. So the way I do that, sometimes I have a little bit of a cheat sheet. If I'm some, some plans come up with a really obvious, remain that obvious. But for example, if I've used an egg shell in my work, which I'll be doing today and we'll go through that with you. It's easy to come up with plans for that because we can use words attached like crack, shell, egg, scramble, fried. You can, you can do any, use any words that are attached to the item. If you get stuck on that manages grow to an online thesaurus, look up a word or the item that you're using and just see if words you can use that you can imply play with a little bit. Sometimes if my brain religion disparate, I've cheated and gone to Google and just looked up jokes about bananas. And sometimes something will come to me that I know I can, I can kind of play with a little bit in news really well for a caption. So just to remember the artwork that you're creating, the peace is just as important as the partner that you're going to come up with a 50-50 in one view. 5. Materials: Okay. So I just want to go through materials with you. I know you've got all your materials or will have soon enough. What I use are just used, I think would lead for the base. I have some more stronger blue, which are from go jail is from runnings. This is from a hobby shop that he's a very viscus glues, so it's easy for the little miniatures to stand up. I can't use things like superglue or anything like that because it's too running in at White work. I have all my fake grass. Thank shrubs that I put on the artworks. He might just have to improvise, improvise and make some things out of paper, clay or or draw things put up cardboard and I'm quite sure yet. But yeah, trees, all the different types of grasses I've actually got drawers full of for us. But these are the ones I used for my school. Beautifuler pretend dirt. Susan's tech. Sometimes when you're doing your scene, it's it's really good to detect things in place just to see if you like the look of where they're going to be before you go. I haven't got for today's out work with I'm going to be doing it in a glass clothes. She gosh, sorry. So this is the base and this sometimes is this des, sort of sculpt clay to make basis within ice. That's been tricky due to kind of explain. But for example, on the artwork that are going to do today, just by sitting on top of that. And I'll explain why later. Usually when I'm doing these illustrate, I have all of this packed up in a bag and I sit in the straight automobile crash. Thankfully, you don't need to do that today or next week. You'll have your last comfy chairs are interested up, which would be really nice when you're doing this in the street. 6. Set the Scene: Ok, so starting off with the start making, I just want to go through with you what I've chosen to do. As I mentioned before. My piece into this beautiful glass close. It's, it's really good. It's got a nice flat base. So I didn't like making artworks who needs what I did last night just to prepare for today was I created another brace, all that. Let's go a little bit of texture in a sensitive rising. So it does look like it's going to be like a parkland. I suppose. I just used that. You don't have to do that at all. It's just something you just said that I don't always have a sequence like that or base. So I've just made that. All I've done. Also, we are going to be doing workmen exceeds some craft Hz, which you probably see my Instagram before. I've done that before. But it's a fine art work and it's not too hard to do so. Will it be good for instruction? Where I made this desk-based last night? Because the claim was quite soft. Amazing small Indian iterations in here. So that work's going to, that is going to be bullied on here, will fit really well. So essentially granted, I just obviously I don't anything OK. So what we're going to do is have the correct egg. We're going to have a little mini skip. So we're gonna break up some eggshells to put in the Skip. That's going, I made a little endian tuition view that's going to sit nicely there. I've got all my grasses ready to go because we'll be gluing the grass down on that ice. It's also a nice color this desk because it has a sort of earthy tone underneath the glass as well. So the actual silicon somehow sit like that. So it can have a workman that's going to sit inside that eggshell, one on top. I selected and trained last night. And we're just going to pop that. We're going to glue him there somehow. To say that it gives some height to the piece. So when that lid goes on there, when the piece is finished and it's not all they actually isn't happening just down on the ground is a little bit of white in there as well. So that's something to consider. If you ever going to do works in something like this. And you can buy these type of cultures in Archaea, you're about 15 or $20. If you were ever going to do something like this for yourself in the future or in these outward. And we of course have, unless you've bought depart and selection of little miniature workmen. So they're all doing different sorts of things. They're just going about a work-life. So surely I select the right miniatures to use in this same here. They're very sweet and they're quite funny, especially when you have the priority of the end. So also, just start thinking about the reality of the same. It's kind of nice. I like to think of it as a real life since activity that they're going about. So these little characters have their own personality. This is a real worksite, uh, room tree. And they're essentially going to be moving eggshell into the skip. So this is like somebody's daily job. So I think you've been thinking about it as there's something real that's happening in here, like a world away from our human world. We know. I think that's all got my grades really. And we will see. 7. Create Your Base: So first stage skin to remove any items from Plato. And take that little bit is clearly could worry. It's really asked because it doesn't it's washable and it's safe and it's non-toxic, so it's really good to use. I'm just gonna spray this a little bit around these clay base. It comes out. And this is what we're going to put the grass on. I will grab on Trustee icy ball stick is a really handy if you've got anything like this at night. Sometimes a nice brush, but of course Nazi visa, brash and boom, you get right away. Because it only happens on.cpp source after that. So I just sprayed the glue around trying to get an even hide on its way. Try not to let it drip too much. Little bit spine really isn't the end of the world. There's lots of little David sin. This will be slightly easier for it was a totally flat surface, but let's say we have grass to improvise because you probably won't have dry grass. You can just use a little Stein's or whatever. And we just felt it doesn't really matter. So I'm just sprinkling this very fine scatter. And like I mentioned before, having that sort of brown clay is kind of nice. Just looks like if we can obviously get different types of grasses from hobby shops. This is a beautiful finds. It's called scatter. It's really, really fine. And it actually does scatters really easily. Actually enough coverage. Today we have Grassy Knoll. 8. Landscaping: At this point now I think we can just stop writing the work together. I have probably noticed. I'd like to add a little bit more grass that H psi stopped doing that. And k, so we had some indentations that I mentioned in our last week. So we've got one for that little eggshells going going to see probably at the front. I'll probably put that in a little bit later though, because we'll work sort of from the backwards to the front and just say that strike knock things over. So this is sort of more, the more industrial strength, good. You'll notice that rather than being a running viscous sort of almost gel like whew. Just gonna add that to the bottom of the tree. Place tree. And we're had the indentation for it. Buh clay hardened. So this'll take her a day to dry off. But because it's so viscus and gentle like that's actually going to Stein IS quite well for the time being until it hardens. So you'll notice in that tree there is just Citizen Brown plastic. I do want to cover that Brown plastic with a little bit of glue. Michigan a debit on the stick. And then onto that glue, I'm going to add a little bit more grass just so that we can hide that plastic part. Now, sometimes with things like this, it's really hard to get my big fingers in there. So I tend to use these light little liars. And I just pinch of bunch of grass with them. And because they find knows, it's really easy just to slip the grass in there like that. So rather than what big singers, I have rooms and number of artworks and not ruined, but kind of sport them using my fingers because I can knock things over quite easily with them. Okay. I think we're just a tiny bit more and that will actually see quite well. And you and I just sort of the glue coming through a little bit. They don't worry. It dries clear. That's fine. That will just kind of drawing off. And eventually it would just look grain with a little bit of a, it's coming through. 9. Large Components: Okay, so we want to think about placement like we already had, I think, thought a little bit about that before. But essentially, we want to have one of the eggshells standing high like that. Actually is that one looks gradual. And then we're going to have the other eggshell standing. So I essentially want to put a little miniature set, looks like it's working inside the egg and another one on top. So it's like it's in the cracking. This is actually quite a small base to work on, especially with something as large as two Haas. So it's probably best to get like your bigger items go down first before you start putting little shrubs or bushes or stones implies is once you've got the bigger audience, we can't weigh all the small things going on. At the moment is looking like a VC artwork equal being trained to be eggshells and a big scheme. You just need to make sure that you're happy with the placement of everything. Ordinarily, probably I'd like to have the skip a little bit more across to the side. The given it's quite a small space to do the same, I'm just going to put it in the center. Okay. I got a little bit hl from another age and I really had I'm just going to break that up a little bit so we can attach pieces of shell into the skip. So it's like the workmen have been taking it apart. 10. Adding Figures: My scenario, we might add some little men in there. Let's get overwritten. Selling shoes really work. Showed you last week. I think I have a little selection of these guys. They all during woman jogs, holding a spanner. The other one looks like it's sitting down on the job. That could be quite fun to use. Scenario. Probably just need to give some thought to what you're seeing is going to be about is he going to be sitting on the job or not? No. Say no, doesn't work for me. I think I'll probably use this old guy because he looks like he's got a jack hammer that he's about to break into that egg shell like that. So sometimes again, it's just, you can have a plan and you need to be flexible with your ideas. If it doesn't look like it's going to work for you, doesn't mean they cannot use. Now obviously, nasal figurines, it's important too. To have enough we want to add, it's going to stick, but also not too much that you can really say is when it dries. So if we're looking at that artwork, that's the front of it. We want to look at that little guy and say again, that goes so thick, it's just going to secure human place until it hardens. Again. You could use blue tack to sort of map out is saying, which is what I would suggest for you guys. To be honest. Just to get muddy, things emerge. 11. Final Details: Okay, so we've got the bulk of what we need done on here in terms of the main part of the same. Now we just need to kind of bring it up with some shrubs and some others. I'm just going to choose the least brain which is made. There are so many different shades of green. So I don't want any anything that's too close to that color. It's nice to have real contrast. So might use some darker green shrubs, possibly. Do I want light green lights quite nice as well. I wish I could ask you what you think. I think that really is what so was obviously all the action happens upfront and that's what you're looking at. It's still important to create some interests at the back of any sane or at the sides. The whole the whole picture. And you don't care about if you think you've cited did it in rooms spot, just thought of Riegel at somewhere else. I've taken out works apart many times because I hadn't been without tuned. So kind of the creative process. Sorry, I also have some default debt sprinkle. Sorry. I'm just going to drop a little bit through the doesn't you don't need to worry about pulling that together. And that would just add a little bit. Give it a little bit more drastic throughout DO field. 12. Finish with a Pun: One last wipe off and then we can, I think we don't. So you can see that sometimes the artwork itself doesn't take a really long time to do thought process. And the creating process that goes into it. He's probably, I'm just as time-consuming or more probably coming up with thinking about human, thinking about a character's thinking about placement. So all of that is a huge part of the query process and that's the part you should also be enjoined to. So I'm just going to pop this Lygon. And here we have the delightful we've seen finished pressure. So we have a final artwork. Here. The caption or come up with, is similar to what I have used before. But I'm going to focus on this guy here, on the eggshell here. The captionings. Jack's prostration was reaching boiling point is Brian was broad and he was about to crack. Since he started this repair job, he felt he'd become a shell of its former self. So there we go. We've just worked on with boiling fried crack in shell in that plan. So just use a play on words as much as you can. So now I just, I want you to start making your own diorama, your aims theme. I really want you to take your time with it, enjoy the process from start to finish. There is no wrong or right way to do this, just to have fun with it. Let your imagination go a little bit Wild. I think. I really hope that you've enjoyed having doing, doing this and enjoying, enjoy the process of it. Just another instruction for you when you've completed your outward. If you could just take a photograph of it in situ and write an artists statement or caption and at least 11 paragraph. And the beauty is that you can create an entire storyline behind it so your pan can be two or three sentences, right? Sure, but just write something about the same and write a story, right? Whatever you want there. And fortunately, I really wanna say, don't ever be afraid to express yourself through creativity. It's, it's really the most magical thing we can do for ourselves and for other people as well, when you create an artwork that other people can enjoy it. It's a pretty incredible thing to know that you've kind of brighten someone's day with your artwork. Thank you so very much for having me in your AP class up really enjoyed this and I hope you have as well. I really hope you've been able to take something away from it. And good luck with your own diorama. And I really can't white you see photos of it once you've uploaded the mom. Thanks so much.