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]]>McCarty has impressive attention to detail that allows her to recreate all-things real-life into miniature pieces. This is best seen in her recent series of works that saw her rebuild sets from popular TV shows like Friends, Seinfeld, the Big Bang Theory, and more.
For example, in recreating Monica’s apartment from the iconic sitcom Friends, McCarty left no room for error. She not only fully furnished her kitchen with utensils, cookware, and food, but she also went one step further and made matching artworks and picture frames. Even the peephole on the apartment door has a characteristic yellow ring to make the recreation 100 percent accurate.
The artist reveals that she developed a fascination with miniatures thanks to her grandmother, who loved to collect figurines. While in high school, McCarty started making her own miniature pieces and occasionally sold them at conventions. The demand was surprisingly high, and when she turned 22, she decided to make it her full job.
“Creating miniatures can really take you away to another world,” McCarty explains. “My ideas can be found everywhere—from my favorite TV shows to theme parks.”
Check out more of her works below.
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]]>Davydov enjoyed building things with his hands from early childhood. He was making simplistic sculptures using any material he could get his hands on, but as he grew older, his creative process became more complex.
Nowadays, Davydov uses clay, paper, fabric, and wood, among other materials, to craft countryside houses, elaborate buildings, and sometimes complete small towns that can fit on one’s palm. They all have imaginative elements added to them, being placed on top of trees or built on Moon-like structures.
Davydov aims to spark imagination with his works but also to send a message about the current state of the world.
“It is not difficult to see in my works the idea of the fragility of the world, behind thin glass—in photographs where these worlds literally fit in one hand,” he shared in a recent chat with Art of Play. “I broke glass several times and repaired some tiny world that had accidentally fallen, but this will not work with our world. It is alone, and it is in our hands.”
Continue scrolling to check more of Davydov’s fascinating miniature houses below.
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Mar Cerdà is the latest miniature artist added to our growing collection. With a background in cinema and audiovisuals, Cerdà is a firm believer that characters can be defined by a space, even if they are not present within it. It is this cinematic approach that makes her miniature dioramas stand out.
Made of cut paper and watercolors, they include such details as houseplants and illustrated floor tiles. Based in Barcelona, she admits to being particularly inspired by the signature ceramic tiles in her city.
“Here in Barcelona tiles were very popular at the end of the 19th century,” Cerdà explained in an interview with We Heart, adding that nowadays a lot of houses still have them. “I’m also influenced by all the cities I’ve visited.,” she says. “Traveling is so inspiring.”
Each piece begins with a detailed sketch of what Cerdà has in mind, after which she looks for reference images. The creation process itself depends on the piece and can take between one or two days to more than three weeks. “I like to find just the right tile designs or the best plants to go with the piece,” she says.
Seeing all your good wishes makes me stronger to keep going and conquer my fear of showing my latest work, so keep tuned 
Perhaps I would be ready to share it sooner than I expected! . (Here is today’s process with my fingers covered in glue and me thinking outside the “box” for once! Let’s see how it turns out 
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]]>“I remember my mother taking me to a children’s art school in Minsk that one of her friends was running – I must have been around 5,” she recalled in an interview with Whitehot Magazine. “He asked me to draw a figure, and put me in front of an easel with a large pad of newsprint, I drew a figure that took up a tiny corner. He asked me to try again, bigger, and I drew something only slightly bigger. After a few attempts, he told my mother he couldn’t really teach me.”
Luckily, Brodsky disregarded his advice and pushed onward. Growing up immersed in anything and everything art-related (her mother, being a musician, was surrounded by artists), might have also been a catalyzer.
But it was only when she started going to university, that she found herself enamored with painting after taking an art foundation class. “Within less than a week I was completely in love (or addicted, depending on the point of view) – I knew that this was what I wanted to do, every day, for the rest of my life,” she says.
She hasn’t looked back since.
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. . Nuevas casitas HOY! Todas estas casitas playeras estarán disponibles hoy en mi tienda online a las 19 PM (hora de Madrid) Paredes herself is a longtime fan of miniature art, and recalls having a whole shelf dedicated entirely to miniatures when she was just a small child. “My favorites were the Polly Pockets,” she relayed in an interview with The Daily Mini.
In no time at all, she would dip her toes in the art of miniature making. “The first miniature I made was when I was around 10 years old,” she recalled. “I made it with toothpicks and it was a little house with small furniture. I remember that in order to open and close the door, I used a piece of cloth. I still keep it with much affection.”
Now a professional model maker and miniature creator, her wooden houses are the stuff of dreams. Her work incorporates various types of wood, including softwood like balsa or hardwood like linden, to which she then adds detail in clay. The finished product is painted using acrylic paint.
“For me, the most difficult thing is to make very small objects without losing too many details,” she admits. Take a look at some of her imaginative (and undeniably adorable) work in the gallery below.
Let me know what more colors or shapes you would like me to make
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]]>But she didn’t start out working in small scale. In fact, for over 20 years DomestiKate has worked in interior design and couture when she came to realize that her work was simply too big. “I was making massive design decisions for clients, yet I wasn’t feeling that same big joy I was helping them to create,” she explained on her website.
Her creativity sparked again after renovating a distressed childhood dollhouse. “I decided to renovate this gifted dollhouse as a design piece for my office and I GOT LOST IN CREATIVITY,” she recalled. “I had fallen out of practice of actually MAKING. THIS is what I had been missing.”
Now she finds joy in the craft itself, getting lost in all its tiny details. “I like having paint under my fingernails and had forgotten how awesome it feels to stare at piles of assorted materials that are just waiting for me to morph them into something new, something different.”
Enter her tiny world in the gallery below.
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]]>Based in Oahu, Hawaii, Almeda’s reassessed his ideas about size after coming across a book titled Creating Ceramic Miniatures. And while beforehand he ascribed to the notion that “the bigger the better,” nowadays his motto is the exact opposite.
“Size does matter,” reads his short Instagram bio. And with 17 years of creating miniatures, you better believe he knows what he’s talking about. Pushing himself to improve all the time, each of his projects requires a different set of techniques; and according to Almeda, working in such a small scale is much harder than you might imagine, requiring him to test different clay bodies and make his own tools.
But while his art comes in small sizes, his inspiration is larger than life. “There are so many different things that I am interested in, music, photography, just all different arts,” he shared with The Potters Cast. “There would be too many to list just one. I pull inspiration from all different places.”
Take a look at some of his work in the gallery below:
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]]>“My interest in miniatures really stems from my love of fake food and the realization that minis could be a relatively easy way to reproduce all kinds of food,” said Growden in an interview with Daily Mini.
As for her creative process, she admits to drawing inspiration for miniatures from whatever she wishes she had in real life but, for whatever reason, doesn’t. “That may be a particular food, a vintage stove, or some antique painting I can’t afford,” she says. “At least I can have a miniature version.”
A self-taught artist, Growden began experimenting with miniature making after coming across a video on YouTube of a girl making miniature pastries, fast food, and candy. “I was working at an art supply store, so I just bought the supplies I needed there and went home to try making some mini food myself,” she recalled.
Now, her creations stand on their own, inspiring others to get their hands dirty.
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]]>“I studied fine art in college and feel that I developed some strong composition and design skills, but honestly the way I work isn’t taught in schools,” said Leshko, talking about his artistic background in an interview with The Daily Mini. “I’ve always been interested in documentary studies in art, capturing moments in time regardless of media,” he added. “My project with the buildings in my neighborhood is just that, a documentary project or archiving project.”
Indeed, his work is meant to serve as a three-dimensional archive of buildings that are in transitional periods. Exhibited internationally and included in the permanent collection of the Urban Nation Museum (Berlin) and the Dean Collection (NYC) amongst others, it’s clear that people are tuning in.
Take a look at some of his incredible miniatures in the gallery below:
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]]>“Through my work, I hope to capture the unique beauty of these establishments and to pay homage to their importance to the history of New York,” he told My Modern Met.
Hage started working on this project in the late ’90s when he first became fascinated with everything about the street-level storefronts. “These facades have a story to tell, and the owners are an important part of the city’s history. New York storefronts, especially the older Mom and Pop stores, are more than just retail locations, they are an integral part of the community,” he said.
Many of these objects are today closed thanks to gentrification that took over NYC, just like many other big cities in the world. One day, Hage’s miniature models may be the only thing that keeps them from being forgotten. Scroll down to see them.
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