This was forwarded to me via e-mail in honor of the Miniature Artist, Willard Wigan.
Willard can create a masterpiece within the eye of a tiny sewing needle, on the head of a pin, the tip of an eyelash or a grain of sand. Some are many times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.
Wigan’s smallest sculptures can only be measured in thousandths of an inch which is why they can sit, very delicately, on a
human hair three thousandths of an inch thick.
A girl with a red balloon walks along an eyelash, supported by a needle.
A cat climbs a cat whisker
Michelangelo’s David, front and rear views, on the head of a pin.
Elephant
Swan
Polar Bear
on Grain of Sugar
The Tower Bridge in London.
and Henry VIII, with his six wives (many of whom spent time in the Tower).
Wigan likens his artistic process to "trying to pass a pin through a bubble without bursting it."
Adam and Eve
carved in a graphite pencil lead.
22 kt gold dragonfly
perches on the
point of a needle
Cassius Clay (later know as Muhammad Ali) vs. Sonny Liston….the entire boxing ring barely larger than a
match head.
Frankie Dettori riding
Dubai Millennium on a pinhead
Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs (note the witch with the apple, above the eye of the needle).
Peter Pan, Tinkerbelle, and the Darling family children, John, Wendy, and Michael (with Teddy Bear)
on a small fish hook.
Gold Tiger
Barn Owl
Baby
Charles Dickens
Winston Churchill
The Wizard of Oz Cast: Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, Glinda, and the Wicked Witch of the West.
