Video: Chicken grain by grain. Unusual portraits laid out from multi-colored beans
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It's hard to believe, but it took the authors several months to create one such portrait, like those shown in the illustrations, and many thousands of multi-colored seeds. And this is not only about beans, peas, lentils and other cereals and legumes. For their work, the authors of unusual paintings, P Rocha, R Rocha and Malcom West, used more than 50 colors, and this is difficult to arrange using exclusively plant seeds. So they had to use Jellybelly jelly.
True, in the 1980s, when artists were just starting to engage in such an unusual art, they used exclusively legumes, choosing different colors of the seeds and carefully placing them first on a pencil drawing, and then covering with glue and forming those portraits that we can see on the picture.
By the way, the very first "grain" portrait was the image of the then US President, Ronald Reagan, who was the idol of one of the founders of "grain painting", an artist named P Rocha. It took him about six months to post the president's portrait, and Reagan was very impressed with what he saw. By the way, this work can still be seen in the presidential gallery in California.
Throughout his life, P Rocha became the author of more than 50 portraits laid out from grains, then this inheritance, together with the author's technique, passed to his nephew, R Rocha, who to this day is engaged in creating stunning portraits laid out from legumes and jelly grains. In Britain, a talented artist named Malcom West took over the "grain painting" baton.
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