Juan Francisco Casas

I love the work of this artist, he’s taken the bic biro (or which I am very much a fan) and created a photo realism style, almost treating the biro as a paint brush.

The texture he is able to generate through layering of different stroke directions is incredible, and is something I am trying to develop.

http://archives.almostflan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/jfc2.jpg

http://archives.almostflan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/jfc1.jpg

The shear size of these pictures has to be the most incredible feet – with up to 14 biros going in to his most detailed images.