Many Artist Use Pencils To Make Art,

but few use them this way,

 using the pencils themselves as the medium, but that is what Diem Chau does, using graphite pencil leads and coloured crayons to carve delicate sculptures of animals and people, Diem a native of Vietnam and her family came to America as refugees in 1986, later she would receive a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts after which she began exhibiting her works in New York, Miami, Seattle and Los Angeles,

 now the good news, if you are in or near Chicago between April 5 - May 18 the Packer Schopf Gallery will be exhibiting her work, absolutely amazing.