Gujarat artist carves pencil, paints rice grains to spread awareness on COVID-19

Deepakbhai Bhatt, a renowned artist from Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, carved several important messages on pencil tips including one on social distancing, apart from hygiene. Bhatt has also drawn figures of policemen, media and medical personnel on rice grains as a tribute to those on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus outbreak.

Ahmedabad (Gujarat): Deepakbhai Bhatt, a renowned artist from Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, took to his art of pencil carving and rice grain painting to spread awareness on coronavirus.

Deepakbhai Bhatt carving a pencil

Bhatt has carved several important messages on pencils including one on social distancing, apart from hygiene, and other precautionary measures to keep coronavirus infection at bay.

Lock and key craved on a pencil tip

Apart from carving social messages on pencils, Bhatt has also drawn figures of policemen, media and medical personnel on rice grains as a tribute to those on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus outbreak. He has also written messages such as ‘Stay Home Be Safe’, ‘Wear a Mask’, ‘Keep a Social Distance’, among others, on grains of rice.

Rice grain painting of a man sweeping

"Day by day, there has been an increase in positive cases of coronavirus. This situation can be controlled only if we fully comply with the lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. I have made my art available on an online exhibition to get my message across to more people,” Bhatt told ETV Bharat.

Rice grain painting saying asking people to wear a mask

The artist added, “I have depicted on tiny grains of rice the hardship of doctors, police and media persons. I want to present these rice grains to the police commissioner and to big hospitals like the VS Hospital and Civil Hospital.”

Rice grain painting asking people to stay home

As a result of his artistic feats, Deepakbhai has found a place in the Guinness Book of Records and the Limca Book of Records.

His feats include threading hair, writing 396 letters on one grain of rice and writing the entire Bhagavat Gita on a 15-paise postcard, writing a 148-word congratulatory message on a sesame seed for cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.

He has also been featured on the History Channel.