BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready?

Subject: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 10:12 PM

That's not a photo?

Amazing artworks done with ballpoint pen
By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, TODAY

They're breathtaking pictures -- a lovely red-headed young woman, a green-eyed housecat, a peaceful temple garden in Japan. But they're not photographs -- they're copies of photographs done with that most prosaic of artistic instruments, the simple ballpoint pen.

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Attorney Samuel Silva, 29, who lives in Portugal, is earning a lot of attention recently for his amazing pen artworks, which are displayed online. He uses BIC pens in eight different colors to do his work, which is so well done that some visitors to his webpage don't believe he actually did the work, and want him to post a video of himself drawing.

[Check the rest of the story at the link}

Only four pictures are shown at the link, but the story says he has a website.

Worth a look?

John

Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready?
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 10:33 PM

Stunning!

Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 10:50 PM

That is magnificent work! What an eye for color!

Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready?
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 10:51 PM

Quote-wow-unquote

Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 05:08 AM

amazing -

Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 05:39 AM

Beautiful. And I think the Bic company ought to sponsor him in some way - what an advert for their pens!

Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready?
From: maeve
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 05:49 AM

The link within the article leads to his site with more drawings: http://vianaarts.deviantart.com/

Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready?
From: freda underhill
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 07:03 AM

Very beautiful - I love them!

Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 07:20 AM

thanks for the link to his website, maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 03:26 PM

Almost unbelievable!

Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready?
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 04:05 PM

Some of the pieces I could easily mistake for photos. Others have a more "painterly" character. Don't take that as my slighting the guy; it's all absolutely stunning work.

Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 05:29 PM

At the site that Maeve found and linked, if you look at some of the other pages on the menu at the top there's a selection of stuff by several other artists working in the same or very similar media (on at least one set of pages).

John