Artist nails the perfect portrait - using tens of thousands of SCREWS
This artist could be accused of having a screw loose after spending the last two years drilling screws in attempt to nail the perfect portrait. DIY Da Vinci Andrew Myers creates unique portraits of his friends and family by drilling everyday screws into planks of wood. The 31-year-old artist spends over six months and uses up to ten thousand screws to create just one of his three-dimensional portraits. Andrew Myers creates his unique portraits by drilling everyday screws into planks of wood The Californian said he first came up with the idea while he was working at a church two years ago. 'I was doing bronze reliefs depicting the life of Saint Catherine and thought how cool would it be to create something entirely out of screws. 'I'd always wanted to work with screws, I got the idea and that was it, six months later I had completed my first piece. To create the unique portraits, some of which are four foot tall, Andrew firstly spends weeks drilling holes into...