Everything Mini By Miniaturist Artist Raphael Truffi Bortholuzzi

Project: Happy Forever

” When it comes to ideas to explore the dystopia world of pop culture icons, I was inspired by the Prague artist (Filip Hodas).

I found one of your 3D rendering images in his series called “Pop Culture Dystopia” and found your style very inspiring and accepted the challenge with his permission to make one of your illustrations. My ideas, after talking to Filip, were to recreate the atmosphere of that particular place with some physical aspect. So I reduced his scene in a 1/24 scale miniature environment using a variety of techniques learned in the past. The process was meticulously refurbished to fit my needs, but it was also straight from the start with its reference guide image. ” – Raphael Truffi Bortholuzzi

” In late 2018 a recent customer “Julius” approached me at a HOT RODS event and requested a replica of his unique miniature car. After understanding his demand, his car a 1946 Ford with a Mustang V8 mechanic, electronic injection and 380hp – inspired by a concept drawing made by the renowned designer of custom cars Chip Foose.

Your dream was immortalized in miniature! Along with the car was requested an American-style garage, so I created a garage with signs of abandonment but with a lot of personality and gave the name of Julius Garage as a special touch for the customer. I must assume that I am not an expert on impeccably painted cars, but it was a great challenge to develop this scale model. One more happy customer and one more story preserved in scale. Thank you Julius ” – Raphael Truffi Bortholuzzi

” The North American rapper Bishop Nehru and his record label have approached me to create and develop the cover art of their new double album that will be released March 16th produced by Kaytranada and MF DOOM. ” – Raphael Truffi Bortholuzzi

Mixed Media, Miniature sculpture. Scratch build using paper, wood and hand painted with acrylics.