It is rare for an artist to work with colored pencils. To ordinary people, they are an association to the children happily drawing on their coloring books. However, that is not the case for the Lionel Bawden, a young Australian artist who decided to work primarily with pencils. Said like this, you might expect to see some drawings, but the main field of the artist’s work is actually the sculpture.

The material provides an excellent base for Bawden’s endless inspiration, so some incredible sculptures have been made. At first glance, without engaging deeply, his work seems different, like ‘normal’ sculptures made possibly out of clay, but when observed closely, a new world opens, and it’s made out of something unexpected.

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