Amazing & Intresting The Amazing Crayon Art Of Christian Faur
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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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