An employee at an automobile factory in Kocaeli, Hüseyin Sarı has been engaged in the hobby for the last four years. Inspired by a Hungarian artist, Sarı creates micro figurines carved on tips of pencils
For a production-line employee in an automobile factory in the Turkish province of Kocaeli, making carvings from pencils has been a source of inspiration for the past four years.
Spending his free time away from work at a workshop built in his house, Hüseyin Sarı has created more than 150 figurines on the tips of pencils, including those of Atatürk, the Eiffel Tower, "Mona Lisa" and Charlie Chaplin. First, he created simple carvings but then he moved onto more complex work, such as that he calls "Chain Brothers," after realizing that he was meant to do more.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA), Sarı noted that he doesn't have any commercial expectations of his hobby. One of the very few people to pursue this type of art, he uses various cutting tools such as scalpels and diamond-made special tips for carving into wooden writing pencils. He states that he started carving pencils after being inspired by a Hungarian artist he saw online. He learned the art on his own, first creating simple objects like cups, glasses and birds in cages, saying: "These [objects] were the result of hard work and a lot of time. For example, I made chainrings. Then, I carved important and famous names such as Atatürk and Charlie Chaplin onto those rings. Now, I'm working with 0.5 and 0.7 millimeter (mm) tips. I carve works that I've seen and admire, along with famous faces," says Sarı.
Spending his free time away from work at a workshop built in his house, Hüseyin Sarı has created more than 150 figurines on the tips of pencils, including those of Atatürk, the Eiffel Tower, "Mona Lisa" and Charlie Chaplin. First, he created simple carvings but then he moved onto more complex work, such as that he calls "Chain Brothers," after realizing that he was meant to do more.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA), Sarı noted that he doesn't have any commercial expectations of his hobby. One of the very few people to pursue this type of art, he uses various cutting tools such as scalpels and diamond-made special tips for carving into wooden writing pencils. He states that he started carving pencils after being inspired by a Hungarian artist he saw online. He learned the art on his own, first creating simple objects like cups, glasses and birds in cages, saying: "These [objects] were the result of hard work and a lot of time. For example, I made chainrings. Then, I carved important and famous names such as Atatürk and Charlie Chaplin onto those rings. Now, I'm working with 0.5 and 0.7 millimeter (mm) tips. I carve works that I've seen and admire, along with famous faces," says Sarı.
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