May 21st, 2017: Micro-Art

[Snakeadelic]

Quoting:
There’s no way he can profit from painting the white "Stuff" in an Oreo or on his wrist.

Commissions. In this day and age, photos like those on the Net will probably garner him a lot of attention and some lucrative commission requests.

And we all know creative goes with crazy anyway.

One of the vendors at the gem show that's been occupying my life for the last 4 days is selling slabs of landscape jasper with actual landscape elements painted in--brush, flowers, cowboys. Most of the slabs are no bigger than six inches in their longest dimension, so not as small as this guy, but if there's an art idea out there someone will do it.

The butterflies reminded me of what I thought the headline would be about: back in the 1800s "microscope art" was a huge fad. Rich people built tiny pictures out of diatom shells and single scales from butterfly wings directly on microscope slides, and some of those slides still survive.