We wanted to take a couple of roses for a special friend in Madrid, I was inspired by the roses of my garden but they were so delicate to take with me,  so..........

                                                                                   Roses in my garden

But there is something more to add......

And here the final result: Maria Armanda made de easel, also the frame, and  I decorated it in décapé technique with silver leaf, and painted the roses in oil on canvas, all as usual in scale 1/12.

And here is the announcement that the Revue Miniaturas offered us, thank you very much to this lovely Publication, we appreciate it very much. www.miniaturasrevista.com

 In which concerns my works  please be informed that they are originals created by me and they are fruit of intensive research and careful handpainting, so please respect this if you are tempted to copy them.  If so please contact me beforehand and I shall be pleased to allow you . In this case you  may contact me, should you wish to make a replica  for your own use (not for commercial purposes), and I shall be pleased to take your request into consideration, if so you can leave a message with a click on the word "comentar" at the bottom. Thank you all for appreciating  my work , and be sure I am pleased to notice that my work "travels" all the world around.

And now I will select some of my preferred pieces.

Two original works in "partnership" with Maria Armanda and Paulo Gomes

Detail of the small lacquered table with decoration "millefiori" as I called it.

This decoration was inspired on a wall paper scale 1/1 but was painted freehand ignoring the real pattern and following the inspiration of the moment, I enjoyed it very much.

And now the most difficult one in which concerns long hours of meticulous painting because I had to be rather accurate in order to respect the character of the painting of JEAN PILLEMENT, which I love.

So  I decorated  a three  leaf screen  on both sides.

The opposite side of the screen and details of the main paintings

Also with paintings inspired by Jean Pillement

 The Artistic Paintings were on my list, and I made a few, some replicas and  selected also  one original  that I painted some years ago - a landscape in the North of Portugal, called Rio d´Onor. To expose them I decorated a Screen in the Print Room Technique, with engravings I bought in London at Nicola Wingate-Saul Print Rooms, but I had no time to accomplish all the screen, so I presented only one sheet,  may be for another occasion.

 It is worldwhile to visit this shop because everything is beautiful, from the decorated walls to the decorative boxes, I was in love with it.

A pintura artística não ficou esquecida, fiz alguns quadros a óleo, os três primeiros são réplicas, o 4º é um original de uma paisagem de Rio d´Onor, fronteira entre Portugal e Espanha. Para os apresentar tinha pensado fazer um biombo a duas folhas na técnica de Print Room com gravuras que comprei em Londres  no Nicola Wingate-Saul Print Rooms , vale a pena visitar a sua loja porque as peças decorativas que tem em exposição são lindíssimas.

Details of the Oil Paintings

Detail of the Carnival Masks, all hand made, with canvas, Acrylic gesso, Crystal Swarovsky, and hand painting including gold.

Só pude apresentar uma folha do biombo porque não tive tempo para pintar mais quadros. Todas as molduras são lacadas e folheadas a folha de prata ou ouro.

I had no time to finish more paintings to complete the screen, I had in mind the decoration of two sheets, besides the paintings all the frames are hand painted and covered with gold and silver leaf, which involves a lot of work.

Aqui ficam dois conjuntos de peças que irei depois colocar em pormenor:

                                                                                                       Originais de A.M

                                                                                                                           Original de A.M. 

 Para decoração de fundo desta papeleira com chinoiserie, pintei uma aguarela de carácter oriental, em que utilizei materias próprios: aguarelas, papel de arroz, tinta da china e selos chineses com a respectiva tinta.

To complement the decoration of this oriental chest I painted a landscape in chinese style, using rice paper, Indian ink, and the proper seal.

Para fundo das mesinhas orientais, escolhi papel chinês pintado à mão  que trouxe da China e recortes a laser dourados a folha de ouro.

For the background of the oriental tables, I choose a chinese hand painted paper that I brought from China and laser cuts covered with  gold leaf.

Ana Morgado - originals

                                                                                          Originais de A.M.

Consola decorada com chinoiserie sobre fundo azul turquesa, encimado por  biombo de duas folhas com decoração ao gosto  oriental sobre folha de prata.

Side table decorated with chinoiserie on "blue turquoise" , complemented with a wall screen covered with silver and decorated with oriental flowers, painted with oils.

E algumas peças mais simples na técnica décapé:

And some pieces of furniture decorated with a  very simple technique which is "décapé" 

On the ground some shaker boxes made by Paulo Gomes for my collection,

thank you Paulo because they are so pretty and well done.

                                                                                                                                     Originais de A.M.

O modo como ficaram expostas numa cantoneira de acrílico

In the Fair they were placed in a Acrylic desplay 

To match with the two chairs from the African project I decorated a small table in the "Decopatch"  technique over a décapé.

It was not easy to find time  to go around in my "beloved"   secondary hobby -i.e. some shopping, Maria Armanda  was always available to take care of our table alone so  we took turns.

But I don´t like to rush when I am shopping, nevertheless I bought a few nice things, I selected a few:

Tive alguma dificuldade em satisfazer a minha maior tentação, que é a das compras, a Maria

Armanda diponibilizou-se sempre para ficar sózinha na mesa, iamos trocando, mas não consigo fazer compras à pressa, entre alguns artigos que comprei e que gosto de ter à mão para os diferentes projectos, tentei-me com estes:

(Pormenor do candeeiro da Mzia Dzamia)

Edredon da Country Comforts, trabalho manual  - (destino a Casa Rústica, recortes à Laser - (destino Ambiente Tailandês), sedas várias e outros tecidos em algodão (sem destino), ânforas para a Loja em Pompeia, tampos em mármore da Unicorna (sem destino) todos os tampos deste fornecedor são uma tentação. Candeeiros de mesa da Mzia Dzamia que tinha encomendado para condizer com um candeeiro que lhe tinha adquirido na última feira e do qual gosto muito) acho que o vou fotografar melhor. Conjunto de napperons para um maple da Ludwina Miniature Carpets, pequenas peças decorativas da Maria Armanda, para as quais ela tem imenso gosto, peças em vidro do Gerd Felka - Glassblower. Algumas madeiras do Agullo e kits para móveis da Miniarte para experimentar.

E chegou a altura de apresentar o trabalho, os últimos dias foram bastante atarefados para aprontar tudo e muitos pequenos projectos ficaram pelo caminho, mas não havia alternativa e lá nos metemos a caminho pelo menos com a esperança na bagagem que tudo corresse bem.

 And time to present the work arrived, and I´ve been very busy in the last days bringging together everything for the departure.

At the end of the event we took the balance which was very positive because we received so many compliments for our work, some of them from other participants including the Americans, who visited our table. This was very rewarding and we felt compensated for our effort. Our thanks to the TOM BISHOP Organization and to everyone who appreciated our work.

E correu felizmente, tivémos a satisfação de receber muitos elogios pelo nosso trabalho, muitos dos quais de outros miniaturistas já consagrados, alguns deles americanos,  e que se deslocaram à nossa mesa para apreciar o nosso trabalho, foi muito agradável e só por isso sentimo-nos recompensadas pelo nosso esforço. Aqui fica um obrigado à Organização TOM BISHOP e a todos os que apreciaram o nosso trabalho.

Vou começar por publicar aqui o meu trabalho favorito que decidi guardar para a minha colecção, porque continuo a dizer que o espírito de coleccionadora  está muito enraízado em mim e há peças que não consigo vender.

Now I´m going to show some of the pieces gathered for the Fair, and I began with my preferred one that I decided not to sell, because above all I´ve the spirit of collection.

                                                         Original de Ana Morgado

Comoda Bombée, decorada com painéis de "laca" da China ao gosto Europeu. O tampo é de imitação de mármore, toda a restante pintura é imitação de madeira.

 A pintura oriental dos painéis  foi executada com pincéis afinados para conseguir um traço super delicado, que consigo alcançar pelo facto de restaurar lacas antigas há já alguns anos.

Detalhe da base do móvel, aqui está evidenciada a pintura a imitar a madeira

O alçado lateral