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| The Amazing Crayon Art Of Christian Faur |
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| Saturday, 07 November 2009 00:00 | ||||
Page 1 of 2 ![]() ![]() Hed Christian Faur is an artist based in Granville, Ohio. Looking for a new technique, he experimented with painting with wax, but he didn't feel the results were satisfactory. Then, at Christmas in 2005, his young daughter opened a box of 120 Crayola crayons he'd bought her, and everything clicked into place...ecided he would create pictures out of the crayons themselves... ![]() packing thousands of them together so they become like the coloured pixels on a TV screen ![]() He uses this novel technique to create images such as portraits... ![]() a picture of bees in a hive... ![]() incredible photorealistic scenes... ![]() all consisting entirely of wax crayons stacked together ![]() He starts each work by scanning a photo into a computer and breaking the image down into coloured blocks ![]() He then draws a grid that shows him exactly where to place each crayon ![]() The finished artworks are packed tightly into wooden frames ![]() Christian has also created a "crayon alphabet", in which each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different colour... ![]() |
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