Engineers turn artists for love of pencil craft

CHANDIGARH: Alliance Francaise on Monday inaugurated ‘Razzmatazz’, an exhibition featuring pencil artworks by two city-based artists.


The hyper-real artworks, which range from portraits, geometric shapes to various different facets of nature, buildings and architecture, have all been created with pencil, illuminating the play of light and shadows.

The artworks of Amanmeet Singh (24) and Tejinder Singh (21) contain a striking resemblance to various professional artists. The eye for fine detail and depth can be seen while peering from one sketch to the other.

Mechanical

engineers

by vocation, both Amanmeet and Tejinder did not choose the conventional route. “Both of us have known each other from the college days but our interest and passion for art is really old. After working for a short while, we realised where our heart is and we chose to start following that. Now we have been sketching for the past over two years,” said Amanmeet.

As many as 36 artworks are there to see, 14 of which have been created by Amanmeet and 22 have been created by Tejinder.

Their portraits include popular faces like Mila Kunis, Salvadore Dali, Leonardo De Caprio, Jim Carrey, Emma Watson among others. They have also sketched The Roman

Colosseum

, a hyperbolic representation of moon, a special portrait of Reshman Qureshi (an

acid

attack victim), Spongebob Squarepants among others.

The exhibition is on at the art gallery, Alliance Francaise, till August 18.