Unusual pencil art

[Guest rob]

WOW!

[Ken Gargett]

clever stuff.

reminds me of an american artist, hiro yamagata - bought a few of his very cheap prints when i was living there as couldn't afford the squillions for originals. he used to paint with a brush that had only two camel hairs. that was it, so you can imagine the detail. he maintained that he could literally write the alphabet on a grain of rice.

talented people.

[MIKA27]

It is indeed amazing stuff!

[Wicky]

What patience that must take. Incredible!

[MIKA27]

How about this guy also: Not wishing to take away the main topic at hand.

Microscopic sculptures by Willard Wigan

Willard Wigan MBE (born 1957) is a sculptor from Wolverhampton, England, who makes minute work, where a figure can be as small as 0.005mm tall. He was awarded an MBE for services to art in July 2007. He is is the only person in the world who can create what can only be described as ‘micro art‘.

Willard Wigan is the creator of the world's smallest sculptures, often taking months to complete one, working between heartbeats to avoid hand tremors: "You have to control the whole nervous system, you have to work between the heartbeat - the pulse of your finger can destroy the work."

Wigan uses a tiny surgical blade to carve microscopic figures out of rice, and fragments of grains of sand and sugar, which are then mounted on pinheads. To paint his creations, he uses a hair plucked from a dead fly (the fly has to have died from natural causes, as he refuses to kill them for the sake of his art). His sculptures have included a Santa Claus and a copy of the FIFA World Cup trophy, both about 0.005mm tall, and a boxing ring with Muhammad Ali figure which fits onto the head of a match.

[CanuckSARTech]

Wow. That pencil sculpting is amazing.

[rckymtn22]

Very clever stuff. Never would have thought to make art out of a pencil like that.

[thechenman]

And people say you can never succeed or get anywhere by thinking small...

[samb]

WOW, that IS amazing!!!