Video: Benjamin Schein - cloth painter
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The celebrity portraits that Benjamin Shine creates are nothing special at first glance. Excellent resemblance to the original, interesting colors - but by and large, many can draw well. And yet there is a difference in the works of our hero that makes them stand out and makes them carefully consider every detail: all his portraits are "painted" with cloth!
All the "strokes" in Benjamin Schein's portraits are thin strips of fabric sewn to the canvas with small stitches. The author does not use paint at all. The author came to such an unusual technique on his own, and it all began in 2008 … with the presidential elections in the United States. The general Obama-mania did not pass by the artist, who decided to paint a portrait of the future president of his country. Benjamin took the old flag, cut it into thin strips and began to create. The resulting blue-white-red Obama became interested in the Museum of Art and Design, and the subsequent success of the portrait among museum visitors brought Shine fame.
Following a good start, Benjamin continued his textile art. This is how portraits of Audrey Hepburn, Margaret Thatcher, Prince Albert, Winston Churchill and other prominent personalities were born.
Another interesting way to work with fabric can be seen in the portrait of Rembrandt. “I wanted to portray Rembrandt because he is a great master of light and shadow,” says Schein. - To do this, I took a piece of black tulle and began to twist, fold and squeeze it so as to form a portrait. It took about 200 hours of hard work before I got something. Who would have thought that something like this could be created from a piece of translucent fabric!
Benjamin Schein was born in London in 1978. In addition to painting with cloth, he is also a talented sculptor. The author also collaborates with many well-known brands, helping them in the development of designs for certain products. Shine's clients include such companies as Google, Red Bull, Harrods, Tesco, Barclays and others.
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