With Brook Rothshank we are facing an artist whoeleven years ago he was lucky enough to attend an exhibition by Tom Bishop in which the artistic work was shown with a particularity, the miniature in illustration and painting. Rothshanks was encouraged by her mother to take her talents to a professional level when she had already gone through oil and acrylic work.
This is why we have it today in this virtual space that we know by Creativos Online and in which we like to highlight artists like Rothshank. She went through school in Castine, Maine, where she was able to take classes to improve your technique in pictorial creation that has to do with the tiny and small. Here part of their work.
As she says, in 2014 she had trouble finding time, due to her two children, one 7 years old and the other two, so to encourage herself to be more productive, she decided create a tiny object every day. This led her to be able to make smaller works of higher quality and she was able to paint one every day without major problems.
Each of these small recreations can take between 45 minutes and 4 hours, and as you can see the scale is 1/12 for each one of them. His fingers mark the actual dimensions of those tiny paintings.
Use canson white paper in the «antique» edition and a fine brush to detail each one of those small, high-quality compositions. He uses his iPhone to take the photos that he later shares on Instagram where he has 68.300 followers and where he can get a job, although at the moment it is impossible, although he says that by 2017 he will return to it.
You have on Instagram for follow your tiny work and of great manufacture. If you like the tiny, come by here.