Marcel Franquelin

Overall framed size;15x17
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Born in France, Marcel Franquelin studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts (Les Beaux-Arts) and the University of Lille where he received a masters degree in Fine Arts and Art History. In the United States since 1986, he spent three years teaching in New York City and exhibiting his artwork through art galleries in N.Y.C and new Jersey. His work has been published in art magazines such as American Artist and School Arts. Now working mostly on commission, he devotes most of his time teaching Art in his studio.

	An amazing amount of detail and quite a bit of talent went into this piece.
	When you work on this type of project, this is not really a matter of patience....As you go, it puts you on a different level of state of mind, peaceful and gratifying...Don't get me wrong, it will get you tired and sometimes, a break is needed for the eyes! I had pencil works that took me over a we...
	This is the mind of man focusing the intensity of his skills into the point of a pencil tip... and then out onto a sheet of paper! My God, where do you find the patience?
	I'm working on pieces that are 13 inches by 7 inches right now. Can't spend too much time at a stretch on them. But the thrill of the collected effort is undeniable, for sure. I did a dragon piece in the 34-inch-square range that took me 107 hours, and I've heard of people who spend two hundred h...
	I work with 0.3mm mechanical pencils (2h,h,hb and b) and 2 0.5mm (2b and 4b), a pencil shape eraser (called "tuff stuff", $1.00) and a small Sakura electric eraser, nothing else. I do not like the look of smirred pencil, so instead I constantly cross very short lines (by the way, I pull about a quar...

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