Artist Wigan uses a tiny surgical blade to carve his microscopic figures out of rice, grains of sand, and sugar, which are then displayed on items such as pinheads, the tip of an eyelash or even a grain of sand. One of his works is a boxing ring with a Muhammad Ali figure that fits on the head of a match.
Willard Wigan specialises in sculptures that are so small they fit inside the eye of a needle! To view these sculptures you need a microscope!
Lloyds of London on a Pin Head
The Wizard of Oz
The Statue of Liberty in the eye of a needle
The Thinker on a pinhead
Muhammad Ali Clay V Sonny Liston on the head of a matchstick
Elvis Presley on a pinhead
Titanic on the tip of a pin
Six wives of Henry VIII
Bart Simpson
Dressage on a pin head
Green Clown
Marilyn Monroe on a Diamond
Henry Cotton
Willard Wigan
Source: willard-wigan.com
I agree, this is amazing. But don´t say he´s the only one. Look at work of this guy: Nikolay Syadristy (also written as Mikola Syadristy). He makes this inside half a poppy seed! Work of this can be found at microart.kiev.ua
ReplyDeleteOK, so there might be others that came after him... but to go onto a site about him and give th' dig about some other artist is a bit petty and ridiculous.
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There are tons of artists, with tons of differing abilities.
And there are few who are visionaries that pave the way for those of us who get inspired and try to follow and even push the envelope of what our predecessors have challenged us with.
Nikolay Syadristys work is not as good and don't say it is!!! Russians and Chinese always trying to be better but mostly just copycats!!!
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