{"id":4173,"date":"2013-02-12T08:19:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2013-02-12T08:19:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:19:49","slug":"amazing-pencil-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/amazing-pencil-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing pencil artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cadden_2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4174\" alt=\"Paul Cadden\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cadden_2-677x1024.jpeg\" width=\"677\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cadden_2-677x1024.jpeg 677w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cadden_2-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cadden_2.jpeg 964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet <a href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/art-price-pencil-mural\/\">another example<\/a> of pencil art. These are pretty unbelievable&#8230;the fact that artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2115297\/Paul-Cadden-The-hyperrealist-artist-recreating-photographs-pencil.html#axzz2Ki0q6YjV\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Cadden<\/a> drew these photorealistic pieces of art with nothing but a pencil and paper. Pencil is one of my favorite mediums&#8230;somewhat the same practice I used as a kid drawing ninja turtles between homework assignments (yes, geeky I know)<\/p>\n<p>What inevitably happens whenever art like this is presented is a discussion whether this kind of work is considered &#8220;art&#8221;. &#8220;How is this art when the person accomplishes nothing more than what a photocopying machine does?&#8221; always comes up. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>I personally don&#8217;t need to label this type of work. In my opinion I admire the artist for his mastery of the craft. This type of work exhibits patience, the eye for detail, and the mastery of the tool. That&#8217;s all I need. I&#8217;d love a piece of art like this in my home. Not sure I&#8217;d have\u00a0\u00a35000 handy though. *sob* \u00a0(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2115297\/Paul-Cadden-The-hyperrealist-artist-recreating-photographs-pencil.html#axzz2Ki0q6YjV\" target=\"_blank\">DailyMail<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another example of pencil art. These are pretty unbelievable&#8230;the fact that artist Paul Cadden drew these photorealistic pieces of art with nothing but a pencil and paper. Pencil is one of my favorite mediums&#8230;somewhat the same practice I used as a kid drawing ninja turtles between homework assignments (yes, geeky I know) What inevitably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-inspiration-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4176,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions\/4176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}