Amazing Inspirational Artist

November 11, 2007

“Richard Wawro was diagnosed as “moderately to severely retarded” at the age of three, a condition later recognized as autism. He did not learn to speak before the age of 11 and required eye surgery to remove cataracts, which left him with sufficiently poor eyesight to be classed as legally blind.” -Wikipedia

Richard Wawro has created some of the most amazing handmade art I have seen – with crayons. Many of his drawings look amazingly like a photograph, especially at thumbnail size. But even at larger sizes it is crazy how real they are and how it contains some elements of photography. (DOF is a large one I noticed.)

Check out his awesome work here!  (Also, see a documentary of his work here.)