Alexa here with your weekly art inspiration. Marie Harnett is an artist out of the UK whose focus is on film. She makes widescreen-format, small yet intricate pencil drawings of filmstills that "capture fleeting moments of drama, suspense or beauty and, when released from the original context of the film that inspired them, the drawings each tell a story of their own."
Marie holds a miniature Keira
I recently came upon her work and was struck by the level of photorealistic detail she manages to cram into her tiny compositions, and by how they evoke the history of cinema, despite her of-the-minute subjects (she even draws stills from trailers). And she's doing quite well for herself; tiny mezzotints of her drawings sell for upwards of $2000! Here are some examples of her current work; you can see more on her website.
'Gatsby' series, 2012
Gangster Squad, Chéri, and A Single Man loveliness after the jump
'Gangster' series, 2012
'Chéri' series, 2009
'Single' series, 2009