This artist creates tiny and adorable animal paintings on pebbles
Self-taught artist Akie Nakata paints incredibly realistic animals onto stones and pebbles.
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Some artists use unusual canvases for their work, and Akie Nakata is among them, painting adorable and intricate animals onto pebbles.
Nakata, a self-taught artist from Japan, began working as a stone artist in 2011, but said she has collected stones and rocks since she was a child.
“The stones I decide to paint on are not arbitrary, but my significant opposites with whom I have established a connection, who inspire me to work with them.”
“We all stand on the same earth, and we come from the same earth.”