She made this with a technique she called sfumato, which is sort of like cross stitching I think. Maybe she'll see this post and enlighten us with a comment but I think this is a really awesome piece of art. I told her my eyeballs spin at the thought of doing something so detailed. My attention span would be working against me the entire time!

Here is the photo that served as the example for her stitching. It's crazy how she got all of the shading and everything, really neat.

Great job Kim, now everyone go check out her site - http://kimcstl.blogspot.com/