A self-portrait carefully sketched with a black biro was awarded the top prize at the 61st Texaco Children's Art Competition. Frances Treanor (18), from Co Monaghan, won the €1,500 first prize ...

Artist goes viral for creating astonishingly realistic portraits with Biro pens Mostafa Khodeir creates ball point pen portraits that you might mistake for photographs. Published Jul 18, 2018 ...

London-based artist Mark Powell reuses old envelopes as canvases to produce incredible life-like drawings. His sketches are made using only a Biro pen, and they often incorporate original stamps ...

Except for one thing. Reynolds International Pen Co. decided to manufacture their own version, and get it out to stores first. Eversharp’s legal attempts to stop them failed, and 70 years ago ...

In Argentina, where Biro began mass producing his ballpoint pens his birthday – 29 September – is celebrated as Inventor’s Day. Biro died in the country in Buenos Aires in 1985, aged 86. 5 ...

Arguably the most important invention for the written word since the printing press, the humble biro pen is 70 years old. By John Bingham 15 June 2008 • 7:50pm .

The artist created a Twitter account for his work on July 12, posting a beautiful portrait of a baby, with the caption: “Time taken: two months.” Ballpoint pen drawingBy meTime taken 2 month ...

Mostafa Khodeir creates ball point pen portraits that you might mistake for photographs. (Mostafa Khodeir) An artist is going viral for wowing social media with astonishingly realistic portraits ...

Artist goes viral for creating astonishingly realistic portraits with Biro pens. Mostafa Khodeir creates ball point pen portraits that you might mistake for photographs. (Mostafa Khodeir) ...