Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An American artist has created an impressive collection of intricate carvings - all on the tip of a pencil. Cindy Chinn crafts the ...

Taiwanese pencil carving artist Lee Chien-chu (李健竹) announced Tuesday (Sept. 29) that he had set a Guinness World Record for carving 168 interconnected chains from a graphite pencil. The record, which ...

The art that flows from Salavat Fidai’s pencils actually never leaves the pencils. A curvy stallion, a row of circus elephants or the Eiffel Tower remain on the tips of pencils thanks to Fidai’s ...

Salavat Fidai is working proof that artists need not create large pieces to make a name for themselves. Much of what he creates is no bigger than the tip of a pencil — literally. Under the glow of a ...

Many great things spring forth from the tip of a pencil, including beautiful sketches, thoughtful prose, and scientific equations. In all those instances, the graphite running through the pencil ...

Many artists use pencils to create beautiful works of art - but not so many make masterpieces on the tip of one. Dalton Ghetti of US, spends two-and-a-half years crafting each piece by hand on pencil ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan artist Lee Chien-chu stands in front of Xilou Bridge proudly holding up a miniature carving of the landmark, the latest offering in his pencil sculpture series. Lee has been ...

So I know that Japan is renowned for it’s zen mentality, and ninja hoards, but this is amazing. Some people in Japan have made an art form of carving pencils into various shapes and chains. These are ...

May 19 (UPI) --An Indian man who picked up miniature carving as a hobby five years ago broke a Guinness World Record when he carved pencil graphite into a chain with 212 links. M. Manoj, an assistant ...

How cool is that? I never thought of doing that sort of stuff to a humble pencil. Anyone got any ideas what sort of tools they would have used for this sort of work? /me looks around for a pencil & ...