Carlos Moret Miniatures English

Miniatures

My miniatures are paintings on very small canvasses of sizes from 6cm x 4cm and 5cm x 5 cm, up to 10cm x 10cm.

On japanese paper I use acrylic paint (other techniques such as oil, watercolour, indian or colour ink, charcoal can be used). I paint intuitively on a big sheet of paper without considering neither shape nor colour combinations. I try to let my unconcious lead my hand.

I then cut the coloured paper into the size of the canvasses and paste it on it.

Once dry, I observe the miniature until an image appears, in a way similar to when we watch the stains on a wall or the clouds in the sky. With indian ink, pastel or willow charcoal I enhance the image that I saw.

The process seems simple, and in fact it is. We all can give it a try. The unconcious is very powerfull, and it takes a lot of effort and work to liberate it. As we succeed, all what is in ourselves, our experience starts coming out, and we can lay it on the surface we choose. In this way a painting is born, small as it may be, a small canvass we can hold on our fingertips.

Carlos Moret, Paris, May 2009.

Go on to see the miniatures

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