Next Level Hobbies: The talent behind the tiny canvas

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You can find the smallest paintings in Bari, south of Italy. This painter is trying to conquer the world with her tiny canvases. Curious about how she makes them?

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00:00Hi, I'm Ilaria Lafronza, I'm a painter and I make

00:28mini-paintings of 5x7 cm.

00:45I've always been drawing, but I started experimenting with miniatures in 2016.

00:53I started with the famous miniatures to practice as best as I could

01:00and then other landscapes, architectures and subjects came along.

01:08It's very complicated to try to capture so many details in such a small canvas.

01:16There's not just the technique behind it, but also very small brushes

01:23that help me to be as precise as possible.

01:31At the moment I don't use any enlargement lenses,

01:35but I've been wearing glasses since September

01:39to help my vision to be as optimal as possible and to be more and more precise.

01:54The time I spend on a canvas depends on how detailed or simple the subject is.

02:09Let's say that what I prefer at the moment are the architectures,

02:15because they give me the possibility to be more and more precise and detailed,

02:20especially when it comes to monuments such as the ones of the Baroque-Alexandrian architecture.

02:29I've managed to make all this my current work,

02:33I also hope that in the future, not only in the near future, but also that it will last a lifetime.

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