Most artists prefer to use expensive paints or pastels but for one man it was his trusty 3p ballpoint pen which helped him create aize. masterpiece, winning him a £6,000 pr
Gary Lawrence spent almost a year working on his 6ft by 4ft picture using a packet of ten Tesco Value budget pens which he used to ink his images onto the reverse side of old Woolworths advertising posters.
And when the 51-year-old, from Wethersfield, Essex, completed the picture, based on a view of a port on the Greek island of Kalymnos, he could not even afford to frame his finished work.
Ballpoint masterpiece: Gary Lawrence's winning artwork, 'Homage to Anonymous', if it sells for £2,000, combined with competition winnings, he will have made £8,000 profit, minus 30p for his pens
Recession art: Gary Lawrence couldn't even afford a frame for his artwork so just rolled it up and posted it off to the competition judges, he said he was 'surprised' when to have won
