The most challenging enameling technique, according to Zheng, is none other than painting miniature portraits in enamel. Portrait miniature painting in watercolor had a long tradition in Europe from ...

A small study of feathers painted by celebrated 19th-century miniaturist Sarah Biffin has sold at auction for $12,023 (£9,000), far surpassing its estimated price of $6,680 (£5,000), according to ...

At first they look like regular paintings - beautiful, and bursting with talent – but regular nonetheless. And then, it strikes you that these photographic images are barely larger than your thumbnail ...

In 2019, two Persian paintings sold in a private-auction house, in London, for roughly eight hundred thousand pounds each. The paintings were illuminated manuscripts, or “miniature” paintings, and ...

Games Workshop surprised the world of miniature painting in 2019 with the introduction of Citadel Contrast Paints. The new and unusual formulation caused a bit of controversy at the time, but the line ...

A big display of tiny works of art is now open as a temporary exhibit at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch. Assistant curator Melanie Wier says the collection called ...