Tag: pencil art

Peeking Back Into the Gallery — Pencil/Pen Drawings

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People’s creativity comes out in many ways. Swinging a hammer, melting gold or glass, shoving a needle in and out of fabric — so many ways to share your magic and your way of thinking!

Even if you are thinking in an out-of-the-box way.

Flipping through past galleries, I thought I’d bring back a few artists whose pen was mightier than their sword — or their hammer. “Pencil in” some time to go back and wander!

 

Adolf Wölfli
https://sundayeveningartgallery.com/2023/05/23/adolf-wolfli/

 

DZO Oliver
https://sundayeveningartgallery.com/2022/09/03/dzo-olivier/

 

Zinovii Tolkatchev
https://sundayeveningartgallery.com/2021/05/31/zinovii-shenderovich-tolkatchev/

 

Benjamin Sack
https://sundayeveningartgallery.com/2020/10/15/benjamin-sack/

 

Kerby Rosanes
https://sundayeveningartgallery.com/2018/05/01/kerby-rosanes/

 

Arabic Calligraphy
https://sundayeveningartgallery.com/2017/12/13/arabic-calligraphy/..

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Jennifer Maestre

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A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere  ~~ Joyce A. Myers

Sculpture artist Jennifer Maestre, born 1959 in Johannesburg, South Africa, is a Massachusetts-based artist, internationally known for her unique pencil sculptures.

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Her sculptures were originally inspired by the form and function of the sea urchin.

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The spines of the urchin, so dangerous yet beautiful, serve as an explicit warning against contact.

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According to Maestre, there is true a fragility to the sometimes brutal aspect of the sculptures, vulnerability that is belied by the fearsome texture.

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To make the pencil sculptures, Jennifer take hundreds of pencils, cut them into 1-inch sections, drills a hole in each section (to turn them into beads), sharpens them all and sews them together.

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Jennifer Meastre’s fantastic art is a tribute to her eye for nature, its fragile state, and the magical way it protects itself.

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Jennifer Maestre’s sculptures can be found at http://www.jennifermaestre.com/.