If you've been around Lake of the Isles, you have probably seen a 20-foot pencil sculpture in John and Amy Higgins' front ...

MINNEAPOLIS ― When is a pencil not just a pencil? When it’s on John and Amy Higgins’ lawn across from Lake of the Isles, is ...

Higgins said losing the old oak tree was like losing a friend ... he decided to turn the stump into a work of art. David Reese, an artisanal pencil sharpener, was among those who gathered to ...

It's carved out of what remains of the base of the old oak ... how art form relates to the human eye, John says. "Then he saw it, just like Michelangelo, he saw this pencil within this tree ...

At 39, he's been creating elaborate pencil renderings of magnificent old trees for more ... create an original drawing. He works from photos and sketches. The Baranoff Oak took him four months ...

All you need is a pencil and paper ... What would you like to draw, to learn more about? It could be anything — a butterfly, a chickadee, an oak tree, even a green pepper or an apple.

A school in Maharashtra's Wai town has given an artistic makeover to a dead ''silver oak'' tree by transforming its stump into the shape of a pencil instead ... new piece of art located at its ...

A school in Maharashtra’s Wai town has given an artistic makeover to a dead ‘silver oak’ tree by transforming its stump into the shape of a pencil instead ... new piece of art located ...