É... paciencia não é pra todo mundo.
Parabéns ao artista.

Por acaso alguém conhece algum trabalho feito com pipoca?

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Hmm... Patience is not for everyone.
Congs to the artist.

Does N1 know some work made with popcorn?

That's very cool and stylish!
Good work!

Excellent work here!

Some very amazing work!

Check out www.knrdesigns.com

Keep up the good work.

Fantastic concept and absolutely wonderful execution. Love this collection. It actually reminds me of those great food sculptures you see on cruise ships and the like. I think all those pencil tips read as very "pineapple-y."

You guys have to stop people from promoting their garbage like the jackass above me.

Anyway, very cool artwork. I've definitely never seen anything like these before, they're kind-of creepy!

Sensacional. Excelente trabalho.

So creative and very detailed, and yet if you close your eyes it seems like a soft furry creature. I particularly like Chimera, its so alien!

Incredible sculptures!

cool pencils can be fun too right @deMoura popcorn lol

Awesome items here, quite a unique way to use an ordinary object. I love it!

amazing work, really love it.

Very interesting sculptures, but just makes me think about all the trees that were destroyed, probably by a company that doesn't replant.

Oh wow, I am just lost for word! It's truly an amazing work I ever seen... on earth!!

muito legaL

These really are amazing. The time and effort is incredible. But what a waste of pencils. Instead of using a pencil to create hundreds of pieces of art, she's decided to take hundreds of pencils to create one piece of art. A very consumerist approach.

Wow, those are beautiful.
Is there a "making of" video?

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Lovely! Looks like something you would find in the sea :)

I think very visually appealing work, but I find it unconscionable that you have tremendous respect for the environment and the felling of trees on our planet. Could take their creativity on the art of making things with recycled objects. The design also must consider the balance of our ecological system.

is this photoshoped or real?
the artist did really cut the pencile till the last inch for every damn pencils, on every damn pieces of this art?
wow

As arvores agradecem.
Podia ser feito no Photoshop mesmo.

yeah, i agree with b-dubs. it's cool, but it's such a waste of time and energy, as well as pencils. not saying that great art doesnt take patience, but... the final product is a novelty. the end doesnt really seem worth it.

True masterworks. Exceptionally great art here.

Stunning pieces. I'd love to own several of these unique and highly creative "creatures".

Ignore the idiots, they'll say the same thing about waste of materials for things like the Eifel Tower, Statue of Liberty, the Picaso, David, etc.

I'll bet they'll say the same thing about an artwork I saw a couple years ago where someone used bullets as their medium.

These are amazing sculptures!!
I especially love Asteridae and Aurora.

Jen is an incredible talent! She creates wonderful sculptures as well as beautiful wearable art (that isn't featured on this site.) I would hardly call anything she creates a waste. There are far more "wasteful" things in this world, her work should be praised, not beaten down.

I say, keep up the incredible work, Jen. I'm forever looking at her websites to see what neat creations she comes up with!!

Those are amazing and her jewelry is wonderful! I love the Imp.

A waste of pencils?! That's rediculous! Is anything used as an art medium a waste? No. And since they aren't being used they are going to last forever for everyone to look at.

Doesn't make sense.

Those are amazing and her jewelry is wonderful! I love the Imp.

A waste of pencils?! That's rediculous! Is anything used as an art medium a waste? No. And since they aren't being used they are going to last forever for everyone to look at.

Doesn't make sense.

I beg to differ b-dub and malicho. How can creative artwork be a waste of time and energy? And who are you to make that judgement for the artist? I think these sculptures are amazing pieces of art and can appreciate the time and materials that went into creating them. The artist has gone above and beyond the norm with these sculptures. If she had felt that it was a waste of time, we would not have had the opportunity to view these incredible pieces. Thank you abduzeedo for featuring Jennifer Maestre and her works on your blog. I for one do admire the creativity.

WOW! These are absolutely fabulous!

Oh yeah, but think about how she's using up all those pencils and keeping bad artists from drawing more bad art.
And clay artists use up all the clay, and don't get me started on papier mache artists; they're just fiends.

jenmaestre is a very talented artist and her stuff is the shiznit. I am happy to own one of her heart pendants. I don't see that any pencils are really wasted, as most of the pencil is used up to create whatever she is creating, and the pencil is still there, albeit in a different form, but it it still there and usuable as whatever she turned it into. As far as the consumerist approach or whatever b-dubb996 mentioned-many companies are going out of business in this economy as it is, and maybe the pencil companies that make the pencils jenmaestre uses in her artwork are happy to have her business. There would be a lot of companies out of business if people didn't consume, dontcha think?
PussDaddy

Millions of artists can use one pencil to create hundreds of pieces of art. But how many artist can create a piece with hundreds of pencils?

The word novelty means new and unusual. and that it is.

amazing work!

genial

i think that she is fantastic. its called ART. its a great out come and i love the different designs shes made. so clever...well done

You are kidding of course???? I suppose the sistine chapel was just a waste of paint??? Shakesphere a waste of paper and well you can just forget about Mozart!

Yes, I'm certain that the artist set out, not to create, not to further her vision, but to use as many resources as possible.

She's clearly in the pocket of "Big Pencil"

Jackasses....

How can you say it's a waste? Art is not a waste. Art is beautiful. It's a luxury to be sure, but never a waste. What I wouldn't give to be able to afford one of Jen's amazing sculptures.

I think your work is spectacular. Keep at it.

As for the people who said you are wasting pencils, if she worked with any other medium would you say it was a waste?

Is it a waste of wood?

A waste of graphite?

Or just the IDEA of the pencil that bothers you?

She is no different from a sculptor who works with clay, Marble, Or even an artist who carves a raw block of wood.

Would you call a painters work a waste because they used a large amount of raw canvas? Or perhaps they melted crayons for encaustic?

Incredible art work, really nice !

isn't this CG? some of the peices stand on tips. they'd break, or at least require extreme handling care.

How is it a waste of pencils? She is paying for them, she is using them, she is making art with them...who are you to say in what manner they should be consumed? It's not like she is taking food out of the mouths of babies to make sculptures, or ripping off a charity...they are pencils. The world has plenty.

"Isn't this CG? some of the peices stand on tips. they'd break, or at least require extreme handling care."

Real as can be. She has a great deal of patients and talent.

She has an online store here..

http://jenmaestre.etsy.com

correct, a waste. the eiffel tower is a national monument, these are pencil sculptures, to compare the two is silly. like i said, they're cool and all, but not what i would call amazing artwork. and to call us fools for not liking the art is also silly.

They ARE amazing, and I would never call you a fool for not liking them, but I would call you a fool because you are a fricking fool, though.

PussDaddy

this stuff is awsome keep up the gr8 work jen