The Pencil Sculptures of Dalton Getty

I previously posted some photographs of the works of Dalton Getty, aka Dalton Ghetti, who carves pencil leads.  Some of his works take 2 years to complete.  Here are some more, courtesy of yesterday's Daily Telegraph online.  Click on the pics to enlarge...

Art: Dalton Getty

A short time ago I posted some examples of telephone book carving.

In contrast, there are some people who make incredibly real, giant sculptures, such as Ron Mueck:

(Click on photographs to enlarge).

There are people who carve fantastically tiny sculptures, sometimes so small that they have to be viewed through a microscope, as with the works of Willard Wigan which fit on the head of a pin or in the eye of a needle: