Artist's exquisite photorealistic drawings are created using just graphite pencils and a Q-tip By ANNABEL FENWICK ELLIOTT Published: 15:41 EDT, 17 July 2014 | Updated: 16:17 EDT, 17 July 2014 ...

Many artists have used pencils to create works of art - but Dalton Ghetti creates miniature masterpieces on the tips of pencils Credit: DALTON GHETTI / SOLENT NEWS Dalton, who works as a carpenter ...

He works in graphite pencil and uses technique called hyperrealism, meaning pictures look unbelievably realistic Latest collection features people whom 50-year-old, from Glasgow, photographed in ...

In the right hands, the pencil can produce images that are rich in texture and depth. Through the vast range of lights and darks possible with graphite, pencil drawings often even allude to color. … ...

Those paintings stand in stark contrast to the drawings in LACMA’s show, which opens on May 10. "Drawing was really the issue in the 1960s for me, not exactly a popular notion at the time," he says.