Artist makes Guinness record for crafting world's largest

An Assam-based artist has made it to the Guinness Book of Worlds Records for making the world's largest paintbrush measuring as long as a double-storied house.
Using the mammoth-sized 28-feet-long brush made of bamboo and wood, Sujit Das has painted larger-than-life colour portraits of Mahatma Gandhi and freedom fighter Bhagat Singh at his art school in Assam's Nagaon town.
Made by him in 2012, the feat features in the latest 2015 edition of the Guinness World Records.
"Art and painting have given me so much in life and now with this I want to bring the spotligt on our brush itself. It is something so intrinsic to our lives," Das told PTI from Nagaon.

He crafted the brush, weighing around 22 kg, on his own using pieces of bamboo and logs of wood. The bristles are made of horse-tail hair.
Das has broken the 2009 record of Romanian artist Primaria Municipului Campaina of Campina city, whose paintbrush measured more than 14 feet.

After making the brush, the toughest task was to put it to use, he said.
"I hanged the brush from one end so that I could move it from the other end for painting. The brush was so heavy that at times the canvas also got pushed back by its sheer force," said the artist who runs Jyoti Art School in Nagaon.

On a canvas measuring six feet by 4 feet, he has made portraits of Gandhi, Bhagat Singh and famous Assamese artist Bishnu Prasad Rabha.