The point of the pen

There’s a reason this girl appears to be doing something strange with a ballpoint pen. It’s a self-portrait.

Sixandfourselfportrait#1, 31/08/2007, blue Bic pen on paper, 200×150cm

There’s a reason this girl, kissing “the perfect man”, appears to be blue.

Theperfectman, 01/01/2007

These are not photographs. This is not digital art. Because Juan Francisco Casas works with blue pen on paper. Ballpoint pen. The kind Confucius uses to do his crosswords.

And they’re not just small little doodles, either. Here’s what his work looks like in a gallery, courtesy of Greta y Doraimon’s Flickr page:

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There’s a story about his work in a recent UK Daily Mail.

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2 comments so far

  1. Shaun February 6, 2008 22:56

    Simply amazing :)

  2. Ivo Vegter February 7, 2008 0:46

    It is, isn’t it? Whenever I doodle like that, my cat comes and knocks my elbow.

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