They're breathtaking pictures -- a lovely red-headed young woman, a green-eyed housecat, a peaceful temple garden in Japan. But they're not photographs -- they're copies of photographs done with that most prosaic of artistic instruments, the simple ballpoint pen.

Attorney Samuel Silva, 29, who lives in Portugal, is earning a lot of attention recently for his amazing pen artworks, which are displayed online. He uses BIC pens in eight different colors to do his work, which is so well done that some visitors to his webpage don't believe he actually did the work, and want him to post a video of himself drawing.

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