Painting World Records  

Sujit Das built a paintbrush measuring 28 feet in length, 4.40 feet in breadth, and 22 kilograms in weight. He used the brush to paint portraits of Mahatma Gandhi, Sahid Bhagat Singh, and Bishna Prasad Rabha at Govt. Boys High School in Nagaon, India.

Parijoy Saha completed 51 paintings in 35 minutes using his bare hands. Read more about the feat here.

As part of the "Dream Big - Read" summer reading program, Ingvild Herfindahl and her friends from Kasson Public Library blow-painted 160 dandelions on a table.

Micro-tip painter Shaik Ameerjan created 63 paintings of India's national heroes on tamarind seeds. The seeds average 168 square millimeters in size. The painting marathon lasted six hours, 12 minutes. He set the record to celebrate India's 63rd Republic Day.

Atmakuru Ramakrishna, an innovation artist, used his fingers and hands as tools to paint 100 landscapes in a record 13 hours, 26 minutes. The paintings use oil medium and were painted on 100 12" x 16" stretched canvases. The record was set at the Indian Institute of Science campus on May 20, 2010.

166 artists who attended the Saint Louis Art Fair painted on the same canvas without using black. The finished piece was bought by Ale Uchitelle. To see the list of artists who created this work, click here.

103 artists who attended the Saint Louis Art Fair painted on the same canvas without using blue. To see the list of artists who created this work, click here.