Today Karen and I participated in an event in our local museum of the history of science. We drew pictures of insects seen through a microscope, and then transferred our drawings into monoprint. That’s my* body louse, Pediculus humanus, reproduced above – I forgot to reverse the caption. The event was designed to celebrate the famous work Micrographia, by Robert Hooke.
UPDATE: Got some paint and had a go at home today. This isn’t a print, this is the back-lit acetate block I used to hold the paint after making a print (so it’s a kind of negative). 
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* only borrowed. I wasn’t allowed to keep her.
Likely good you could NOT keep her.
Well, although she’s pregnant (I believe those are eggs inside!) she has been glued to a microscope slide for a good many years. So I felt safe 🙂
I’m sure neither you nor Karen has any desire to have your own louse. Interesting technique, by the way.
🙂