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“Obama Portrait In Thousands of Crayons”
This is a short story on Nashville artist Herb Williams, who spent over four months making a large 3-d portrait of Barack Obama out of thousands of crayons. You can view more of the crayon sculptures at http://www.herbwilliamsart.com.
See video here:
http://www.wsmv.com/video/17916594/index.html
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Well done Herb !!!
**Nicholas Forrest is an art market analyst, art critic and journalist based in Sydney, Australia. He is the founder of http://www.artmarketblog.com
, writes the art column for the magazine Antiques and Collectibles for Pleasure and Profit and contributes to many other publications.
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at 06:45 on February 5th, 2009
Why doesn't Herb mention he had interns cutting and gluing crayons for 4 months while he barely showed up to work?? Herb gets ideas then has other people figure out how it can be done, then interns spend hours upon hours working on his projects without getting paid. Do they see a profit after the work is sold? After the months they put into his art, you'd think they get a cut of something. No. Herb kept the money for himself. Not surprising, as this has been his way for a few years now. He may be original for using crayons, but that's as far as it goes. Perhaps he'd be more respected in his local surroundings if he'd own up to the truth of his "art".