I love creative art so when i see things like this ive got to share it with you all
51-year-old German artist Ragna Reusch-Klinkenberg is an expert at
carving miniscule figures out of toothpicks and pencil tips that are so
tiny you need a magnifying glass to actually see them properly!
Some of
Ragna’s figurines include animals like cats and giraffes, inanimate
objects like toothbrushes, and even famous politicians.
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. She started carving erasers at school using small forks and
later moved on to carving wooden clothespins and selling the miniatures
she made at craft markets.
“Once I had forgotten my clothespin blanks, but I found a toothpick
in my pocket,” she recalled. So she tried working with it, and fell in
love right away.
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.”
Over the years, Ragna has patiently carved thousands of toothpicks
into various designs, some as small as 8 millimeters. 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.





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