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Posted: 28 Aug 2009 04:43 AM PDT

For most of us 'Pencil' is not more than an a writing instrument, but you will be surprised to know that artists create some of the most beautiful artworks using pencil as a medium. What we have here is a collection of artwork from various artists, which we are sure, will take you by surprise!

Sculptures and Jewelry By Jennifer Maestre: It's quite a miss when you talk about pencil sculptures and you don't see artwork created by Jennifer Maestre. To make the pencil sculptures, she takes hundreds of pencils, cuts them into 1-inch sections, drills a hole in each section, sharpens them all and sews them together.

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Felissimo's 500 Colored Pencil Set For Social Designer: Felissimo designed these for Social Designer, the complete set of 500 colored pencils consisting of 20 units. Its upto you how imaginative you can get with it; Stretch them out, roll them up or display your pencils as you are with the pencils themselves.

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Pencil Bench: Boex 3D Creative Solutions designed this award winning 'Pencil Bench' & the seat is made up of 1600 pencils which can be removed & used.

72 Pencils by George W. Hart: It's a geometric construction of 72 pencils, assembled into a work of art. "Restricted to a signed limited edition of twenty-five, each shares a common form, yet each is unique."

Tara Donovan's Colony: The artwork created by her is really amazing!

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Pencil Sculptures by Robert Levine:

Pencil Carving: Mizuta Tasogare and Kato Jado create these amazing pencil carvings.

Pencil Cube: It measures 5 x 5 x 5", created using pencils and glue.

Tom Friedman, "Untitled," 1995, Pencils: It looks like one continuous "loop" of pencils.

Pencil Furniture: These pencil sculptures were made exclusively for faber-castell, using thousands of sharpened 'castell 9000' pencils by German artist Kerstin Schulz.

Pencil Art: Its created by an Australian artist, who creates beautiful work of art using pencils as canvas. A self-taught illustrator, who moved from the area of stencil art to exhibit his illustration work worldwide. Here is the gallery of his pencil art.

Pencil Sculptures by Bob Van Breda: These were on display at the Lincart Gallery in San Francisco through October 20, 2007.

Some more interesting stuff:

Color Pencils: Artwork created in Finland by Jonna Pohjalainen.

Fence Made Of Pencils:

Fence made out of pencils.

Everything Color Circle: Creation of Brooke Inman.

Beautiful Colors:

Pencil Wall:

Moustache Pencil:

Tiny Twig Pencil: Adorable tiny twig pencils are made from real twigs! Measuring a petite 3.5" tall, the end has been wrapped in a pretty variating green and yellow embroidery thread.