Let’s start off by being clear: this is a two step tutorial. The first step is to mix pigments with a medium. And no, they’re not hard to find special products from the other side of the planet.

Alex Dos Santos is not your typical artist. He never trained professionally in drawing, painting or other visual arts. And nothing in his engineering background would hint at his passion for artistry.

Miniature paintings are delicate handmade paintings, much smaller in size than a normal painting. It is also called limning, small, finely wrought portrait executed on vellum, prepared card, copper, ...