{"id":1249,"date":"2025-03-20T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:27:20","slug":"tiny-paintings-at-mckinney-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/tiny-paintings-at-mckinney-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Paintings at McKinney Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times recently had a story<\/a> about “tiny paintings,” saying that they were “the art world’s next big thing.” If tiny paintings are a trend now, then I guess I’ve been trendy for a long time, as I’ve been making small works of art for years. I’ve always liked how a small art work tends to bring me in close in order to focus on the small details at a small scale. It’s like a small painting pulls you in, where a large painting can be seen with a glance from a distance.<\/p>\n

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Tiny paintings by Mark McKinney at McKinney Arts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Part of my trend of making small art works also comes from the simple point of necessity – when I lived in New York City for ten years, in a series of tiny apartments, I didn’t have the space to make big art. Tiny paintings in tiny apartments seemed to be a logical approach. Even now that I have more space out in the suburbs, I have well over 1,000 art works, so I’m glad that a lot of them are small, so that I’m not paying for storage space.<\/p>\n

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At McKinney Arts, you have plenty of choices of tiny paintings for sale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can see more of my small scale artworks here<\/a>; if you prefer large paintings and want to have something big, check my selection of large art works here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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