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Monday, November 1, 2010

Creative And Amazing Pencil Art By Dalton Ghetti

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Many artists have used pencils to create works of art – but Dalton Ghetti creates miniature masterpieces on the tips of pencils. The Brazilian born, Connecticut based artist carefully crafts the tips of pencils into amazing micro sculptures.

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These miniature masterpieces are a side project for the professional carpenter, who has been perfecting this art for the last 25 years.

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One of the most fascinating things about these tiny works of art is that he has never sold them, he has only given them away to friends as gifts.

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He works as a carpenter and carves pencils in his free time - often putting in just an hour or so before his eyes get tired. It can take years to finish an especially complicated piece - a linked chain in the middle of a pencil took him two years, and a carefully crafted giraffe even longer.

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A sculpture of Elvis Presley wearing shades, carved from a single pencil.

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A tiny saw, using both, the wood and graphite of a single pencil.

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Dalton has a box full of more than 100 sculptures that have broken while working on them. He affectionately calls them ‘the cemetery collection.

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