Due to the popularity of my last blog post on pencil lead carving, I’ve hunted down 4 more fine examples of Dalton Ghetti’s work and one more example from the amazing miniature artist Willard Wigan. Each of Dalton Ghetti’s pencil lead carvings take up to a year to carve. Mainly, because carving pencil lead is a finicky business and he reports massive casualties in [...]

Behold the artwork of Jennifer Maestre, the artist behind some of the most spectacular pencil sculptures you will ever see. Rather than carving the pencils, which is the subject of my “pencil carving art” post, Maestre cuts and sharpens hundreds of colored pencils to create fluid forms. On her website she writes that she was inspired by the fluid shape of sea-anemones, it turns [...]

I am pleased to present you with yet another post on pencil carving art! If you haven’t seen my last post on pencil carving art definitely check it out! I am a fan of bizarre art, if you take a look in the offbeat category you will find such gems as watermelon carving to toothpick sculpting, but this strange phenomenon called pencil carving really takes the [...]

In my quest to find the strangest forms of art, I have happened across a medium even more spectacular than toothpick sculptures, albeit similar, pencils! These pencil sculptures are each carved from single pencils by the folks over at infofreako. I can’t imagine how long it took to carve each of these pencils, some of them are incredibly complex, anyhow enjoy! The pencil carvings get [...]