Bic biro artist set to draw a crowd
The work of an artist who creates stunning photo-like images with nothing but a BIC ballpoint pen is set to go on show in New York.
Each drawing is based on a photo taken at a friends party but Spanish 'Bicasso' Juan Franciso Casas meticulously sketches out the image with the humble 14p blue pens.
The 32-year-old says he can get through up to four pens when producing each of his two metre tall drawings.
30 of his works will go on show at Scope New York at the Lincoln Center next month and sell for between £750 and £4,000 each.
That's not bad when you consider he only spent £17 on the pens to create all of them.
Casas says there are some drawbacks to using BICs to create artwork, such as not being able to delete any errors: "Wrong at the beginning is better," he said.
"You must clean your tip each time for the stroke is clean, and is designed to paint vertically, it lets you do realistic drawings."
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