I may have mentioned that I have a little thing for miniature paintings. It started in Turkey and went slightly haywire in India. I've got the mini bug - big time.
Then I saw something in Elle Decor many moons ago that caught my eye. Miniature...but different.
Riyaz Design is collaboration between English artist, Alexander Gorlizki and master miniature painter, Riyaz Uddin. They live and work in Jaipur, Rajasthan, where Alexander creates the composition and Riyaz executes the design using single hair brushes and hand-ground pigments. The result is a playful and celebratory subversion of a 400 year-old tradition:
Riyaz Design also offers stationary, package design, and “enchanted portraits” like this one:
What’s better than Sly Stallone in chintz? NOTHING, I tell you. Nothing.
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