导读：詹妮弗.麦斯特（Jennifer Maestre）是美国马萨诸塞州的艺术家﹐以其独特的铅笔雕刻闻名于世。她从1999年开始制作铅笔雕塑，之前也尝试过用钉子等其它材料，但是最终决定用铅笔创作雕塑。她的铅笔艺术品根据复杂程度价值从1000至8000美元不等。Having experimented with a number of materials over the years, sculptor Jennifer Maestre's unusual creations are finally starting to draw attention.
And it is no surprise they are putting her other models in the shade - having been made entirely out of pencils.
With her graphite creations taking up to two months to make, her painstaking efforts are starting to pay dividends with the sculptures fetching anywhere between ?0?5600 and ?0?55,000.Jennifer, from Massachusetts, drills a hole through each one of the 1,000 pencils it takes to create her pieces, before she sets about sharpening each and every one of them to craft the spectacular models. 

 

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Once this is done, each section is then sewn together using a technique called a peyote stitch, which helps to give the structure its shape.

The artist has experimented with nails and other materials, but eventually settled with pencils as her favourite medium after starting 13 years ago.

The 48-year-old said: 'The sculptures can take anywhere from one day to two months to create, and for a really big sculpture, I might use 1,000 pencils.

'I use the whole pencil, I cut them up, so nothing goes to waste.

'I treat the pencils as beads and sew them together with a heavy duty beading thread.

'If it is done in a circular or tubular manner it becomes three dimensional, if I make a row wider, and then narrower, the form becomes somewhat rigid.