By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 09:57 EST, 11 September 2012 | UPDATED: 11:12 EST, 11 September 2012 Here's an artist who's completely dotty about her work - spending months at a time constructing portraits of celebrities using paper dots made by a hole punch. Nikki Douthwaite painstakingly arranges hundreds of thousands of tiny coloured dots to make up the incredible portraits, which can sell for five figure sums. Ms Douthwaite, from Timperley, Cheshire, punches holes in the paper before using tweezers and glue to stick them on in a precise order - making up a host of famous faces when viewed from afar.
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Nikki Douthwaite's artworks are composed of up to 600,000 dots
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The Guinness World Record holder labours on each one for months
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Simon Cowell revealed he has commissioned a dot portrait of himself
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