[div style="font-weight: bold;" class="mxb"] [div class="sh"] Panda painted onto single hair [/div] [/div][div style="text-align: left;"] [/div] [!-- S BO --] [!-- S IIMA --] [table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="203"] [tbody][tr][td] [img alt="Jing Ying Hua's panda" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41475000/jpg/_41475582_panda_ap_body.jpg" border="0" height="152" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="203"] [div class="cap"]Gallery visitors view the painting through a microscope[/div] [/div] [/td][/tr] [/tbody][/table][!-- E IIMA --]Chinese micro-painter Jing Ying Hua has painted an image of a giant panda on a single human hair. The artist took 10 days to create the mini-masterpiece using a single rabbit hair as a paintbrush. [/p] Vistors to a Chinese gallery viewed the painting through a microscope at 50,000 times magnification. [/p] Other micro-painters include Russian artist Valeriy Dvoryanov who creates oil paintings of famous people on poppy seeds and grains of rice. [!-- E SF --] [/p] [!-- S IIMA --] [table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="203"] [tbody][tr][td] [div] [img alt="Panda painting" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41475000/jpg/_41475838_panda203ap.jpg" border="0" height="300" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="203"] [div class="cap"]The image was magnified 50,000 times [/div] [/td][/tr] [/tbody][/table]
His biggest work to date is 2003's picture of the Titanic, on a 2-mm-long mineral sliver. [/p] One of his works is inscribed with the words: "I have loved the sun all my life and always wanted to paint the sun" in letters a fraction of a millimetre wide, painted using a sharpened human hair. [/p] And in 2002, Micro-artist Willard Wigan spent months designing, sculpting and painting a miniature figure of Muhammad Ali fighting Sonny Liston on a pin head. [/p] His collection includes a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Tower Bridge and Jesus - each fitted into the eye of a needle. [/p] It also features a minute Statue of Liberty and a boxing ring containing Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield.[!-- E BO --]
