…past and present, here and there
Some miniature gardening resources: http://www.twogreenthumbs.com/about_miniature_gardening.html Janit Calvo also has an excellent blog at: The Mini Garden Guru http://www.miniforest.com/ http://www.greenart.com/plants-miniatures1.html http://www.meehansminiatures.com/ http://www.miniaturegardenshoppe.com/ http://miniature-gardening.com/ http://www.robsviolet.com/miniature_houseplants.htm
MoreLast year I had about 6 weeks to design my miniature setting, buy and keep alive the plants, create the miniatures , and, most importantly, submit an accurate and correctly named list of all the plants I used. Since this was my first time, I had no idea how to do this but I have […]
MoreI have started designing artifacts for the miniature Hawaiian museum. The first things are feather capes which are smaller than the cloak that I showed previously. I drew the capes in Adobe Illustrator using photographs of one real cape and a real cloak which I made smaller. The cloak is from the British Museum collection. […]
MoreOne of the artifacts that I hoped to make for my Hawaiian Culture museum was a miniature replica of a feathered cloak that for years was displayed in the Penn Museum. Here is what the cape (called ‘ahu ‘ula) looked like when it was displayed (see the museum website). Sadly, the entire Polynesia display has […]
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