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Miniature Ouija Board This miniature ouija board is made of wood and hand painted. It is only one-inch wide.
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This tiny miniature ouija board is made to be a toy game for a dollhouse doll. It is an inch wide, made of wood, and hand-painted in brown and off-white acrylic, with a gloss varnish. The background is just barely touched with paint, so that the real wood shows through it. Though loosely based on real, traditional ouija boards, the design is my own. The alphabet and letters are curved as in an old popular board design, but I have painted a mysterious eye in the center as a decoration. I have put the sun and moon in the upper two corners and the hint of a sphinx, top and center. The bottom corners sport an angel-and-devil design, with a question mark between them. On the back of the board, I have painted, very sketchily, the sphinx, some pyramids, and a question mark. The tiny hand lettering is not machine perfect, and that gives this miniature ouija board a desirable old-fashioned or vintage look. The eye has a pen-and-ink-graphic quality that harkens back to Victorian style illustration. This is a one-of-a-kind original, so even if I make more miniature ouija boards in the future, the painting will vary. This would work as an average or "large" miniature ouija board for 1/24 scale, or half-scale doll houses, or as a "small" ouija for a 1/12 scale dollhouse. This is part of a chest full of handmade miniature toys by D.K. Pritchett. Miniature ouija boards, like other miniature games, look really cute lying around the dollhouse child's room, but it could also be used to set up a miniature dollhouse seance scene with adults. My interest in ouija boards is mainly the pretty graphics. I enjoy painting miniature ouija boards and like trying to make the tiny miniature planchette look like a real planchette on a real, full-sized ouija board. My miniature ouija board, with its miniature planchette made of wood, looks very real, especially since it it painted on real wood! For future boards, I may try making the planchette out of polymer clay instead of wood. I would still add the gold or irridescent round disk at the top for a "window". Art by D.K. Pritchett Morninjay's World at Ebay Back to Home Page | |
