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.
[via Dude Craft]
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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.
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
Then I stand corrected. I guess there’s more than one person working with crayons in such a way. Thanks for the link.
Or how about this one that appeared on Makezine 3 years ago?
http://blog.makezine.com/2009/02/25/christian-faurs-crayon-pixel-art/
That’s just today’s guy, but from 6 years ago. Nice.
Or this one from 2006!
http://blog.makezine.com/2006/11/17/portrait-made-from-crayon/
Well, mea culpa – it appears I’ve double-posted. Thanks for pointing it out, readers.
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 :-)
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.
Looking at Faur’s “traditional” paintings quickly revelas that he’s really more a skilled technician (and possibly e-promotor) than an “artist” of any great ability – even his most thoughful pieces are directly based on the work of other photographer’s work; and when he resorts to producing his own custom hued ‘rods and cones’ sticks, he even removes the limitation imposed by the original medium, children’s crayons. but interesting wall-hangings, still.