Chinese Artist Creates Dragon Sculpture with 83,600 Pieces of Straw
70-year-old master craftsman Fangze Yu can bring mythical creatures to life using nothing but straw. His most recent piece of work is an impressive dragon that he hand-crafted out of 83,600 pieces of rice straw! Mr. Yu and his daughter spent four months working on the dragon at his workshop in China’s Jiangxi province. He started […]
Lithuanians Build Intricate Straw Sculpture Park Only to Burn It Down in Fiery Celebration
Every year, the people of New Town, in Panevėžys, Lithuania, hold an annual festival where tall intricate sculptures made completely out of straws are displayed for the entire month of October in a temporary Straw Sculpture Park. At the end of the month, the straw sculptures are burned to the ground to mark the transition […]
Russian Artist Creates Amazing Straw Paintings
Irina Parosova, a self-taught artist from the Russian city of Syzran, creates mind-blowing artworks from straw. Work on just one of these masterpieces can take from one day to a whole month, depending on the complexity of the project. Straw is usually defined as an agricultural byproduct that is mostly used for livestock bedding and fodder, thatching […]