This Website Will Turn Your Photos Into Crayon Mosaic Masterpieces

This Website Will Turn Your Photos Into Crayon Mosaic Masterpieces

Looking for a new and unique way to share your Instagram shots with the world? A company called Colour.Works now offers a unique alternative to simply having your digital photos printed: It will instead turn them into elaborate mosaics hand-assembled from thousands of coloured crayons.

This Website Will Turn Your Photos Into Crayon Mosaic Masterpieces

Given that each crayon represents a single pixel, and crayons are much larger than the tiny dots that make up your smartphone’s display, the resolution of Colour.Works creations won’t be nearly as sharp. But from a distance it’s easy to make out what image is being formed by the colourful wax mosaic. (Hint: It’s the Mona Lisa.)

The artists who hand assemble the mosaics have a colour palette of 173 different shades of crayons to work with, which is also a far cry from the millions of colours most LCD displays can reproduce, but the low-fi aesthetic is certainly part of the charm here. Plus, every time you look closely at it, you get to experience the intoxicating smell of crayons that you probably haven’t encountered since you were a kid.

This Website Will Turn Your Photos Into Crayon Mosaic Masterpieces

There’s a bunch of pre-made artworks available on the Colour.Works website which start at $US69 ($90) for a simple 15cm design created from 195 crayons. But if money is no object, you can order a custom creation, from any image you want, as large as 95x140cm in size. Since that requires upwards of 15,000 crayons to complete the design, you’ll be spending $US3229 ($4212) for your masterpiece, so just make sure you keep it well clear of open flames, heaters or anything that could cause it to melt away.

[Colour.Works]


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