Pencils as you've never seen them before !

Many artists have used pencils to create beautiful pieces of work – but only one creates stunning masterpieces on the tip of one. Microscopic artist Dalton Ghetti spends up to two-and-a half years painstakingly crafting each handmade piece on the graphite of a pencil.

Mizuta Tasogare and Kato Jado divide their incredibly intricate pencil carvings into four basic types and the rest they consider variations on these basic themes. Any mistake, they note, is fatal for an individual work which must remain intact throughout the delicate carving process. Creating link after link without breaking through thin wood barriers and while dealing with the material change between the graphite and surrounding wood is extremely challenging.

Yet another pencil artist Jennifer Maestre makes jewellery and objects....

 

The mathematical beauty of (the totally mad !) George W Hart

"72 Pencils" is a geometric construction of 72 pencils, assembled into a work of art

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