Fantastic and colorful oil paintings by paris based françoise nielly’s / check out her portfolio

Tom Lewis is a premium degree pencil wizard, and mouse master of the first order. Born in Birmingham in 1979, he is at present working as an artist and illustrator in the east end of London.

A miniature resin figurine of a tiger, which is about 0.12cm (0.05 inches) long and 0.1cm (0.04 inches) high, is displayed on a needle in Taipei.

A Taiwanese man has tamed the tiger, shrinking the Chinese zodiac animal into a sculpture smaller than a grain of rice that’s fully visible only through a magnifying glass.

Chen Forng-shean, who has been sculpting as a hobby for some 30 years, carved from resin what he calls the world’s tiniest tiger at 1 millimetre (0.04 inch) high and just over a millimeter long ahead of the Chinese lunar Year of the Tiger.

But Chen said the brightly colored beast nearly got the best of him over 10 attempts to create it.

“If the hands shake a little bit, the work would jump away and disappear,” said Chen, 54, a minting plate designer by trade. “For this tiger, the toughest part is because it is three-dimensional. It can be looked at from any angle and still seem very lively.

“Coloring is also very hard, with the patterns on his back and the red color on his tongue,” he said.

The single animal, created after three months of intensive labor, was finished in November and Chen said it was worth T$3 million ($94,200), although it is not for sale.

Tigers, which rotate with 11 other animals on the Chinese lunar year zodiac, bring variable luck, being dependable and unpredictable at the same time. Chen said he has already felt the suspense the new year is likely to bring.

“My job is dealing with very fine things, so I learned to breathe and hold my breath,” he said. “Now when I take a breath, I can hold it for 60 seconds, and then I can engrave every stroke with the rhythm of my pulse.”

Chen has used rice, sand, thread, dental floss and ant heads and fly wings to do other miniature sculptures, which are a hallmark of high-end ancient Chinese art.

He expects to carve for five more years, producing even smaller sculptures and including scenes that encase mountains, waterfalls, and people.

After a recent visit to Falmouth I spotted a local artist named Gerry Plumb and his work was featured inside The Whistlefish Gallery, he was born and raised in London, he studied painting and printing at Shrewsbury School of Art. His lifelong fascination with the sea and many sailing trips to the west country eventually tempted him to settle in a 17th Century Water Mill in the very far west of Cornwall, where he finds the harbours and the natural textures as a constant source of inspiration.

UK based artist/illustrator Russ Mills created byroglyphics.com as an online gallery to showcase his now slightly condensed collection of pieces from the last couple of years. All the latest prints hot off the press can be found at byroglyphic’s online store.

Japanese architect Ryuji Nakamura creates some stunning pieces of work, playing with the interior and exterior spaces of objects and bringing out the beauty of using delicate materials.

Danish artist Peter Callesen specializes in paper cuts, simply taking a blank A4 piece of paper to make his sculptural creations.

Himi Kozue was born and raised in Tokyo, she specializes in traditional hand drawn illustrations and has a great and diverse portfolio.

‘Giant Bear in Tiny Village’ by Lizzy Stewart. She graduated with a first class degree from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009. She is a fan of pencils, cardigans and Russian history. And also bears.