{"id":43223,"date":"2017-12-18T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=29277"},"modified":"2017-12-18T08:30:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:30:02","slug":"carving-art-into-pencil-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/culture\/carving-art-into-pencil-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Carving art into pencil tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pencil1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29278\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pencil1.jpg\" alt=\"pencil1\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a pencil carving by artist\u00a0Salavat Fidai.<\/p>\n<p>The 42 year old Russian\u00a0gets a ridiculous amount of detail into such tiny sculptures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pencil2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pencil2.jpg\" alt=\"pencil2\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea of painting or sculpture is born late at night, on the border of dream and reality. During the day I am looking online for photos and video material, then I make sketches or layouts. When I work with oil on canvas \u2013 i have an explosion of emotion, expression and peak inspiration. If I write acrylic on seeds \u2013 its hard work, it\u2019s the study of Van Gogh. When I carve sculptures from pencils \u2013 its a meditation and a high concentration as a sapper.<br \/>\nIt takes from 5-6 hours for simple item to 2-3 days for complex sculptures.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0Salavat Fidai<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pencil3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pencil3.jpg\" alt=\"pencil3\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/salavatfidaiart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sell his sculptures on Etsy<\/a>. Most pieces run about $99.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pencil4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pencil4.jpg\" alt=\"pencil4\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The artist also\u00a0experiments in areas of drawing, painting, and photography in addition to his sculpture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pencil5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pencil5.jpg\" alt=\"pencil5\" width=\"695\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can check out <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/salavat.fidai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more\u00a0art from\u00a0Salavat Fidai at his Instagram profile&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29283\" style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pencilartist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pencilartist.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Salavat Fidai\" width=\"396\" height=\"396\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Salavat Fidai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pencil carving by artist\u00a0Salavat Fidai. The 42 year old Russian\u00a0gets a ridiculous amount of detail into such tiny sculptures. &nbsp; \u201cThe idea of painting or sculpture is born late at night, on the border of dream and reality. During the day I am looking online for photos and video material, then I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1318,4361,5499,6196],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}