Thursday 26 March 2015

There Are Miniature Sculptures,

and then there are really small ones,


 like these from German artist Ragna Reusch-Klinkenberg

whilst these might look good at any size, these are actually made out of toothpicks! Ragna, who holds a degree in graphic design, says her real passion lies in working with wood, She’s been passionate about carving since her childhood, Ragna uses a knife with a tiny blade to create her extraordinary toothpick carvings, surprisingly, she doesn’t need a magnifying glass – she’s able to work with only her reading glasses, once the carving is ready, she paints the figure with a very thin brush, “For me, this is like knitting,” she admitted. “I have just as shaky hands as everyone else.” she is 51 years old, but still nimble enough to take on so many projects,


over the years, Ragna has patiently carved thousands of toothpicks into various designs, some as small as 8 millimetres, She does carve larger blocks of wood into statues using a chainsaw, but her painstaking work with toothpicks and other small objects has earned her international fame, in 2011, she carved heads of politicians into pencils-tips, which gained worldwide attention,  Her work has been exhibited in various cities across the world, amazing!


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