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Really excited to have finished my first Persian miniature which ... isn't exactly very Persian ! 😂 I do have a Timurid pair that is at the colour-blocking stage, but because they have a gold background, I wanted to practice rendering and outlining on something a little less precious first. I'd lo

Hello! I have now finished my first proper miniature painting after changing the sky from blue to gold. Warmest greetings to you all.

Hello everyone! Here is a picture of my green Haft Paykar dome. The shape of the dome and it’s designs are simple yet elegant, like the other domes .The original painting has lovely colour palette and beautiful details such as golden dots, cypress trees, and illuminated borders.(When I have time, I

Hello everyone! 🌺 After a little break from painting I took back my brushes and started this little guy! It's a copy based on CBL Per 277.15 from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Manuchihr pursuing his father's murderer Tur, from the Book of Kings (Shahnama) by Firdausi, 16th century. I'll po

So here he is my Mughal Faces 2 completed. Thank you Vaishali I learnt an awful lot about the techniques & paint. I entitled this painting “that face” because he was testing and challenging 😂 like a lot of the men in my life! 😉 but I enjoyed the process and am an improved painter because of it!

Hello from somewhere in the middle of the Smoky Mountains! I'm moving across the country and taking the scenic route by car, and I've picked up my brushes during our week-stay in a remote cabin in the woods! I have just completed a fair amount of fine rendering for the rocks on this painting, and no

Hello all! Attached is a work-in-progress (please ignore the messy clouds, the face, etc--I'm in the midst of a lot of deleting and starting again!). I'm particularly stuck regarding... 1) the background color behind the figure (it's an ultramarine blue lightened with a tiny bit of gray). I changed

Just wanted to share this piece of work I completed. Title: 2020 (Hibiscus stained hemp paper, natural pigments, watercolour, shell gold). This piece is inspired by the difficulties faced this year. Daily struggles were exacerbated by the struggles that came along with the worldwide pandemic of CO

Among my textile art explorations: knotted needle lace scrolls... positive and negative spaces, word and breath.

The 5 elements in progress So far I have taken the rocks and water classes. Rather than doing a whole picture, I have split an A4 sheet into 5 sections, and done small samples of different aspects of each element. Thanks Vaishali, these have both been amazing! Please could I have some feedback on th

Hello. This is my try of the 'Every single brick' theme, which was an amazing workshop that taught me so much about architecture and how to do those tiny mosaic tiles. Warmest greetings to you all!

Gem, Urn & Telescope ( homage to James Webb)

Vaishali's masterclass in faces is amazing! Vaishali has a way of bringing out the best in her students. With each face, I learn to see better. Soon, I will get the hair right! Here is the latest, a Chinese Persian face. Looking forward to the next one beginning in April

Here’s my Sunflower so far from Vaishali’s amazing flower classes. I still have to render and outline the petals but the centre is finished and it’s my eclectic mix of Indian miniature learning with Vaishali and my newly learnt gesso medieval illumination with Toni Watts. I’m utterly in L🌼Ve

This is my very first go at painting a miniature painting and using the rendering techniques I just learnt in Vaishali's class. It would be great to ask some questions I have and get some feedback on techniques too, so I can make amendments where necessary and improve! 1) For my first

we are having a fabulous time in the February Masterclass, and I thought I would encourage our class to share our takes on this Mughal princes in progress: Tagging @Anastasia Doran @Mary Yaeger @Susan Dobrian @Vaishali Prazmari

So lovely seeing everyone’s works! This is my first attempt and I really love the process - paper prep, burnishing, outlining, flat colour etc. I think next time I’d do bigger creatures, more clouds & way fewer rocks 😀 as I found tapai particularly tricky to do. I don’t think it’s quite finished bu

Hello! The academic year has finished so I finally have a chance to post an update here, it's good to be back and to be able to catch up with everyone :) Here are a couple of paintings I completed for @Vaishali Prazmari's Student exhibition last December, the first one I began in a class in N

I'm taking many of the birds classes this month, while reading Attar's glorious poem, as translated by Davis Dear hoopoe, welcome! You will be our guide; It was on you King Solomon relied To carry secret messages between His court and distant Sheba’s lovely queen. He knew your language and yo

Hello All, This is my first post here on the forum. There is so much information here! I look forward to being part of it. Vaishali’s Siyah Qalam class was fascinating and very cathartic. Painting divs is somehow very enjoyable. I still have a long way to go with shading on this piece, and it’s bee

Hello fellow miniature workshop painters! It was very nice to see you at the monthly forum yesterday and meet some of you I only knew by name. Here is a picture of our traced painting in A4. A couple of points we would need to agree on before I transfer it to paper and outline: 1. Is the level of d

Hi Everyone 🙌💖🙌 from a very grey Sussex, here’s a couple of things to brighten your day (I hope!) firstly the progress on my Gopi face and secondly another image I found of this similar subject which has more of the body and all of the arms in & I think the jewellery & clothes maybe easier to see

I'm working on rendering rocks and one of the things Vaishali always tells me ias to slow down, which is hard for me! I'm impatient. Miniature Painters: what kinds of things do you do to make yourself s l o w d o w n?

Hi 🙌💗I’ve Just finished my Chinese style face (3) with Vaishali. Here’s a photo containing my process the original, the tracing, the shell gold work & then the rest colour wash, rendering & final outlining to completion. I’ve loved painting my “New Romantic” as I fondly call him. He’s so beautiful

Rocks course Where’s Wally? 😉 Results so far! Vaishali ask me to post them. First post ever in my 52 years on the planet - only took me half a hour to work out how to do it! 🙈🙈🙈🤣😂🤣

I just completed Intro to Persian Painting with Vaishali. So, there are several tragic areas on this painting, but hopefully, Vaishali, you will be able to give me suggestions. First, I rescued the poor animal from the dragon's teeth. Just saying. As for the not so hidden faces in the painting,