Bill Taylor, 35, is a data manager in Durham, North Carolina, but is an aspiring cartoonist in his spare time. Bill spends between two and five minutes every day sketching famous works of art in marker pen on a whiteboard in his office.
1. Bill Taylor, 35, is a data manager in Durham, North Carolina, but is an aspiring cartoonist in his spare time. Bill spends between two and five minutes every day sketching famous works of art in marker pen on a whiteboard in his office.
2. He gradually builds up the pictures until he has reproduced classic works from artists including Monet, Degas and even Banksy.
3. He explains: "I had a whiteboard in my cubicle that rarely got used. There was a period at work where we reorganised where people worked, I didn't actually get moved but it was a bit chaotic. That was the inspiration for The Scream. A lot of people thought it was cool when they saw it so I thought it might be interesting to start putting some of my favourite artists up there.
4. "I only do it for between two and five minutes a day, usually right when I get to work while the computer is firing up. Obviously, I have a job to do so I don't spend a lot of time doing it. Plus, there's something about doing it this way that forces me to be patient, something I could always use more practice with. Since I'm doing about five minutes, I'm lucky if I get a section done about the size of my fist each day. It really depends on the specific work.
5. "Each piece takes on average about six weeks or so. Some have gone faster and some have taken longer. In two years I've done 17 or 18, I think.
6. "People here really like it. I get a lot of people that come by just to see the progress or see what the next choice is. I work in a very cool place with great people and no one has ever given me any grief over it. If that's all I did all day or my work suffered because of it, that would be a different story. I do my daily chunk on it in the time it takes most people to get a cup of coffee from the break room
7. "Once I finish one, I'll leave it up for a couple days before I erase it. People ask me all the time if it's painful to erase them when they are done. Honestly, no, because I'm always excited about starting on the next one.
8. "I think my favourite is the Cézanne card players. Cézanne is my favourite painter so I really wanted to do one by him and do it justice. On that one I felt like I was able to approximate the brushstrokes of the original more so than most of the others I've done.
9. "The most difficult has been Escher, hands down," Bill says.
10. In The Car by Roy Lichtenstein
11. Ballet Class by Edgar Degas
12. The Singing Butler by Jack Vettriano
13. Starry Night by Van Gogh
14. Iron Man comic book cover
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16. Departure of the Winged Ship by Vladimir Kush
17. Ansel Adams' Mountains
18. The Speech by Norman Rockwell
19. Whiteboard artist Bill Taylor
