Using only red paint and a basketball, Shanghai-based artist Hong Yi painted a detailed portrait of ex-NBA superstar Yao Ming, who recently retired from the Houston Rockets.

Hong—who also goes by the nickname ‘Red’—decided that a basketball was a more appropriate instrument than a brush.

“I guess all those years of basketball training in high school did come in handy!” she wrote.

Hong was also responsible for creating a portrait of artist Ai Weiwei out of 100,000 (7kg worth) sunflower seeds.









[via Neatorama]


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