Pictures with hairs
 

Hi,

I heard from a new colleague in Poland: There was an interesting culture tradition, centuries ago.
Pictures, portraits (and landscapes) made from human hairs. Families gather hairs and the "master" in the village made a portrait with this. Hairs are short (cutting) and stuck with both ends in a soft-wood panel (with a needle, maybe).

It sounds so interesting, so I can't get it out my head. If I think about it: Hairs have many color variations from white to black, if those " masters" mixed the "tones" of hairs, the result maybe fascinating. Perhaps the forerunner of Pointillism, Impressionism (Seurat etc..)
I can imagine pictures in style of Van Gogh's Sunflower. In any case they had no problem with painting "hairs".

Nowadays nobody makes it in this manner, only as simple family-tree with hair-curls of the members.

Cheers.