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 used 11 different painting methods to create abstract paintings using his bare hands. See the rest of his record attempt here.

Siva Pamarthi painted a portrait of Lord Ganesha in 33 minutes while riding a bicycle.

Nick Stoeberl painted a slice of pizza using his tongue in one minute, 58.27 seconds.

Christos Kakoulli made a stencil art painting that measured 1.50 centimeters in height and 2.50 centimeters in length.

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.

Vakhtang "Vato" Abashidze of the Georgian Records Federation created 5,383 sketches. He set the record to celebrate Wassily Kandinsky's birthday. See more of Abashidze's creations here.

1,175 students from SPK Schools in Namakkal, India handprint painted the Indian National Flag at once. Dr. S.Prabu Kumar, chairman of the school institution, organized the record.

Group members from Rotary Club of Tirupur Pride and AVP Trust Educational Institutions Tirupur created a painting using their fingerprints. The painting measured 24 meters in length and 23 meters in width.

Prasanna Bhojashettar created the inverted painting titled "Motherly Love" in three minutes, 17.56 seconds while singing a Bollywood movie soundtrack.

1,106 students at Bharathiyar Matriculation School in Salem, India participated in a group fingerprint painting.

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.

A student at the Chinmaya Matriculation School in Coimbatore, India made a portrait of the national flag of India that measures 216.23 meters in length.

400 students from Chinmaya Matriculation School in Coimbatore, India painted the national flag of India at once.

Artist SinGh painted a 10-square meter wooden board in two minutes.

A student at Chinmaya Matriculation School in Coimbatore, India finger painted the national flag of India measuring 54 square meters.