{"id":3733,"date":"2012-07-23T15:21:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T13:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.art-spire.com\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2019-02-17T18:05:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T16:05:26","slug":"bic-biro-drawings-by-mark-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.art-spire.com\/en\/illustration\/bic-biro-drawings-by-mark-powell\/","title":{"rendered":"Bic Biro drawings by Mark Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Powell is an English artist from Leeds but now based in London. His particularity is to draw portraits of the elderly on the back of old envelopes. All those amazingly detailed portraits are drawn with a Bic Biro pen. <!--more-->Don&#8217;t hesitate to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/markpowellartist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Powell&#8217;s portfolio<\/a> to find out more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ngg-image-17930\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\"  >\n<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" > <a href=\"http:\/\/www.art-spire.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012\/Juillet_2012\/23-07-12_Mark_Powell\/Mark_Powell_01.jpg\" title=\" \" class=\"shutterset_set_1978\" > <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mark_Powell_01\" alt=\"Mark_Powell_01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.art-spire.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012\/Juillet_2012\/23-07-12_Mark_Powell\/Mark_Powell_01.jpg\" width=\"626\" height=\"700\" \/> <\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ngg-image-17931\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\"  >\n<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" > <a 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