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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 11:38 AM Jan 2013

Kelvin Okafor pencil drawings amaze art critics

A series of pencil drawings by a north London artist has been amazing art critics.

Kelvin Okafor, from Tottenham, has scooped a number of national awards and exhibited at galleries across the country.

The 27-year-old Middlesex University Fine Art graduate's drawings are often mistaken for photographs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21234214

Video with lots of examples of his work.

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Kelvin Okafor pencil drawings amaze art critics (Original Post) dipsydoodle Jan 2013 OP
Nice! Shadowflash Jan 2013 #1
Wow KC Jan 2013 #2
Excellent Catch, dipsydoodle! littlemissmartypants Jan 2013 #3
More here dipsydoodle Jan 2013 #4

KC

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2. Wow
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 06:16 PM
Jan 2013

It always amazes me when I see work like that, where someone can do a drawing and have it look so realistic that I think it's a photograph

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