I wonder which one would be harder for the general population...? For me, I would say the paintings are harder, and I would say for the vast majority of people. The crayon flat 'sculptures' are way more 'artistic', though.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1342262/Artist-Christian-Faur-uses-wax-crayons-create-new-kind-painting.html

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"At first glance these pictures look like nothing more than pixelated photographs but closer inspection reveals the images are actually created using thousands of wax crayons. Bored with paint and pencils, inventive artist, Christian Faur, turned to the childhood favourite for inspiration after seeing his young daughter using them. Christian, from Granville, USA, starts each piece by scanning a photograph and breaking the image down into coloured blocks. He then places thousands of crayons into a grid - like coloured pixels on a television screen - before packing the finished piece into a wooden frame. The result is a realistic image which only reveals it's humble Crayola roots on close inspection. The Ohio artist said: 'My earliest memories of making art involve the use of wax crayons. 'I can still remember the pleasure of opening a new box of crayons, the distinct smell of the wax, the beautifully coloured tips, everything still perfect and unused. 'Using the first crayon from a new box always gave me a slight pain. To the best of my knowledge this is unlike anything ever done before in art. 'The individual 'pixels' of wax are precisely packed into specific locations to produce something that uniquely balances both photography and sculpture.'"

From the comments, this would be cool to do:

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"I think it would be cool to use a heat gun on them and watch them melt a little bit. It might add the chaotic element to turn these into something a little more then photographic imitation."

12/30/2010 5:24:03 PM

That hurts the shit out of my eyes.















ART!

12/30/2010 5:25:48 PM

let's get that chuck close post in here, too

12/30/2010 5:28:15 PM

That first one is about 16,000 crayons.


[Edited on December 30, 2010 at 5:30 PM. Reason : ]

12/30/2010 5:30:00 PM

i am impressed

12/30/2010 5:31:21 PM

pretty cool. where the hell does he get all those crayons?

12/30/2010 5:31:38 PM

i would like it if you'd spell "y'all" correctly.

12/30/2010 5:42:15 PM

oh fuck... how did i mess that up?!

i know how to spell it

proof: message_search.aspx?type=posts&searchstring=y'all&username=0EPII1

[Edited on December 30, 2010 at 5:46 PM. Reason : ]

12/30/2010 5:45:04 PM

That's pretty cool. I second the melt them and watch motion.

12/30/2010 5:50:20 PM

12/30/2010 5:52:58 PM

^ Read my mind.

12/30/2010 5:57:48 PM

wtf? These people get paid? Like in dollars?

Computer science was totally the wrong field

12/30/2010 8:23:24 PM