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| Pencil Art -Freakin' Crazy! |
Creativity from without. What does this mean? I feel that creativity from without is to look at something solid/real for inspiration; none of the abstract painting from Pollock can fall into this category. So while looking across some flicker photos, I came across an artist called Dalton Getty.
Dalton Getty uses something different as art and a medium upon which to present it. He takes something old fashioned and something often overlooked and turns it into art: number two pencils. This is definitely a completely different medium to use than the originals like paper, canvas, or wall. Much like how Andy Goldsworthy uses physical objects for art; so in a way, Dalton’s art is a sculpture. And the picture I chose to represent his artwork is a set of twenty-six pencils; each one individually crafted to form the letters of our alphabet.
This craft of his takes time and dedication. He sits there with a scalpel and slowly carves out each detail. His design is incredible if you think about his limitations. Relating this back to our ‘stone soup’ project, we were completely limited to the materials that we had at our disposable. Dalton only used a number two pencil and nothing else. He realistically was able to only take two main components, the graphite and wood, and creates something detailed and intricate.
Much like this design of a saw, he uses the wood to carve out the handle and the graphite to carve out the blade; this gives the design and art more life as the two have different light highlights and thus making it look as if it really was a miniature saw. One extra detail also really contributes to how genius Dalton really is: shape. The normal number two pencils are perfect for circular objects like a saw or chair; but Dalton picks out a flat pencil for the saw, giving even more thought than first meets the eye. Design through a pencil…GRAND!
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