Portraits Made from Individual Crayons

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By Michael Colombo
Posted 2012/08/09 @ 12:00 pm
Category Art & Design

Artist Christian Faur made a set of stunning portraits using thousands of crayons inset into the frames. The series is called “Rods and Cones” and is the first instance I can think of where crayons are used in such a way to create art.

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9 Responses to Portraits Made from Individual Crayons

Roberto Alsina (@ralsina) on August 9th, 2012 at 1:11 pm said:

There was a guy called Dusty in a reality/contest show called Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, who had done the same thing as a self portrait, IIRC.

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- Roberto Alsina (@ralsina) on August 9th, 2012 at 1:13 pm said:
  
  And here it is (picture #5 if the gallery doesn’t take you there immediately) http://www.bravotv.com/work-of-art/season-2/photos/photo-diaries/dustin#image-102351
  
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  Michael Colombo on August 9th, 2012 at 1:46 pm said:
  
  Then I stand corrected. I guess there’s more than one person working with crayons in such a way. Thanks for the link.
  
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Alex on August 9th, 2012 at 2:43 pm said:

Or how about this one that appeared on Makezine 3 years ago?

http://blog.makezine.com/2009/02/25/christian-faurs-crayon-pixel-art/

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- Seth on August 9th, 2012 at 4:26 pm said:
  
  That’s just today’s guy, but from 6 years ago. Nice.
  
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Alex on August 9th, 2012 at 2:58 pm said:

Or this one from 2006!

http://blog.makezine.com/2006/11/17/portrait-made-from-crayon/

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Michael Colombo on August 9th, 2012 at 4:34 pm said:

Well, mea culpa – it appears I’ve double-posted. Thanks for pointing it out, readers.

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- Alex on August 9th, 2012 at 5:09 pm said:
  
  It’s all good – these are new works from the artist, and it’s been a while since he or similar works were posted.
  
  It’s just that when I can remember something similar from my years of obsessively reading Makezine it’s like a challenge to find it in the archives
  
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G on August 10th, 2012 at 6:40 am said:

Great ideas happen simultaneously. There were folks that were less than 1 year behind Einstein in relatively. Alexander Graham Bell beat the other guy to the patent office by just a few hours.
Great idea and great art.

G.

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