C'est bien connu, tout ce qui est petit est mignon et l'artiste sud-africaine Lorraine Loots a décidé d'appliquer cette maxime à son travail. Avec sa série « 365 Postcards for Ants » (365 cartes postales pour les fourmis) elle s'est attelée à créer pendant un an une minuscule peinture par jour. À vos loupes !
Day 241 : Table Mountain from Blaauwberg Beach. 🍂 28 x 28 mm.
Day 257 : The bench on the corner of Kloof and Nettleton road. 💙 27 x 27 mm.
Day 266 : The Durbanville Wine Valley consists of twelve wineries, each offering the finest in wines. 28 x 28 mm. 🍷
Day 300 : The Table Mountain Aeriel Cableway. (This one is for my grade 2 school teacher, Mrs. Rumboll, who managed to track me down and book a painting after all these years. She kept all my school books from when I was 7, and gave them to my mom years later. Here's to life-changing teachers!…
Day 310 : This is what a taxi looks like in Cape Town. 🚐 28 x 12 mm. #365postcardsforants #wdc624 #miniature #watercolour #minibus #taxi #capetown #lovecapetown (reference photo by KGH)
Day 320 : Surfers in Fish Hoek. 🏄 (Reference picture from a book printed in the 60's: "The Beautiful Peninsula - a picture tour of the Cape Peninsula" by Arthur English). 28 x 28 mm.
Day 326 : Containers and cranes. 28 x 28 mm.
Day 353 : Common marmoset | Callithrix jacchus. 🐒 22 x 20 mm.
Day 356 : Signal hill; starry night. 🌌
— lorraine loots | miniature art (@lorraineloots)
Day 363 : "What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies." - Kerouac. 28 x 13 mm. ✈️🌍
— lorraine loots | miniature art (@lorraineloots)
Source : le site de Lorraine Loots, son Instagram