Matchstick Art comes in many different forms. Often you will find models of trains and buses and other similar examples, but today I will show you two very incredible art forms.

Matchstick art can be simple designs, but I have never seen one quite as cute as the first example. Pinocchio really is a wooden boy here and no amount of fairy is going to change that.

I just love the way they used the wooden boy and matchsticks together – very clever.

The 2nd piece of matchstick art today comes in the form of an incredible video. You just got to watch this to believe it. It is simply a life long passion for this guy and totally amazing. I can’t believe that some people spend their whole lives building and creating a piece of art.

I love what he says about people needing to become creative. Can you imagine doing this all your life though? Would you have time for anything else? It takes me a few house just to do 50 or 60 matches and these are all beautifully sculpted. The quality of his matchstick art is truly amazing.


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I hope you enjoyed that and soon I will bring you more matchstick art.

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Matchstick Art

Matchstick art is an incredible passion not only because exact replicas of virtually any subject can be made, but mainly because of the sheer time it takes.

Matchstick art is considered a unique painstaking art and it is. Large models require many weeks of work often months or years and can take over not only your whole life, but for some the whole house as well.

One of those talented matchstick artists is Phil Geller. It is reported that he has always been involved in model building and has now tried the matchstick art as well with incredible results as you can see from the photo.

What makes this an even more compelling story is that he is a WWII veteran who flew B-24 bombers in the service has kept over the years. And five years ago, he built a model plane out of matchsticks.

And with that, a new passion was born. After building the German fighter plane used in World War I by pilots such as the Red Baron in four days, Geller was hooked to the craft of building things out of matchsticks.





Mr. Geller is an incredible 81 and can still make such incredible matchstick art.

He considers it “good therapy” and it allows him to have a hobby but still be at home with his wife!

The German model plane Geller built using 1,050 matchsticks is the one the veteran holds close to his heart due to his past as an airman.

After the model plane, Geller built a model Taj Mahal using nearly 7,000 microbeams, a Mississippi steam boat, for which he used over 5,000 microbeams, and the Eiffel Tower, for which he used more than 6,000 microbeams. Of all of his matchstick creations, Geller considers the Taj Mahal his masterpiece.

For the full story about Mr Geller and his works of art please click here on Matchstick Art.

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