Painstaking art!

An article in the Daily Mail alerted me to the art of Joe Fenton. (Click the images below for a larger view.)

This is no doodle - it's a huge work of art created with a humble pen by an artist who definitely isn't quick on the draw.




Joe Fenton worked ten hours a day, seven days a week for ten months to painstakingly create his incredibly detailed work.

The Brit, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, drew this intricate and complicated drawing, aptly titled 'Solitude', with a 0.5 mechanical pen on a five metre tall and 2.5 metre wide piece of paper [about 16½ x 8¼ feet].

He created his artwork by drawing the characters and figures of his imagination on a small scale and then combined it all together on a giant piece of paper by tracing them all.




After ten months he finished it with acrylic and paint.

. . .

Joe's inspirations for the drawing come from early surrealists' Hieronymus Bosch and Bruegel. He is also influenced by the darker and more surreal books from his childhood, such as 'Ratsmagic' by Wayne Anderson.

There's more at the link, including more photographs.

At his Web site, Mr. Fenton gives more details of his work, and provides a link to this video of him producing another very detailed artwork, this one titled 'The Lullaby'. It's a time-lapse photography study of the process of creation.

Interesting!

Peter