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28 Aug 12 - 10:12 PM (#3396766) Subject: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready? From: JohnInKansas 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. ... 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 |
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28 Aug 12 - 10:33 PM (#3396777) Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready? From: katlaughing Stunning! |
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28 Aug 12 - 10:50 PM (#3396782) Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready? From: Little Hawk That is magnificent work! What an eye for color! |
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28 Aug 12 - 10:51 PM (#3396783) Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready? From: Bill D Quote-wow-unquote |
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29 Aug 12 - 05:08 AM (#3396877) Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready? From: Sandra in Sydney amazing - |
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29 Aug 12 - 05:39 AM (#3396898) Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready? From: GUEST,Eliza Beautiful. And I think the Bic company ought to sponsor him in some way - what an advert for their pens! |
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29 Aug 12 - 05:49 AM (#3396901) Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready? From: maeve The link within the article leads to his site with more drawings: http://vianaarts.deviantart.com/ |
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29 Aug 12 - 07:03 AM (#3396923) Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready? From: freda underhill Very beautiful - I love them! |
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29 Aug 12 - 07:20 AM (#3396927) Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready? From: Sandra in Sydney thanks for the link to his website, maeve |
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29 Aug 12 - 03:26 PM (#3397156) Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready? From: gnu Almost unbelievable! |
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29 Aug 12 - 04:05 PM (#3397184) Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready? From: frogprince 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. |
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29 Aug 12 - 05:29 PM (#3397223) Subject: RE: BS: Ballpoint Pens at the Ready? From: JohnInKansas 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 |