A YOUNG man has single-handedly reinvented the sandcastle through his unique way of creating amazing artwork using just a sticky canvas and sand.

Tim Bengel, 24, from Stuttgart, Germany, covers a blank canvas with a special adhesive, which dries very slowly.

He then adds black sand, and some Bengeles gold, to the canvas in a planned-out design, adding the grains individually using a fine scalpel.

This step can take a few weeks and Bengel said that he needs an “abundance of patience” for it.

When the design has been completed, he fills in the spaces with white sand.

Then comes the “wow effect,” as Bengel shakes off the excess sand and the artwork is revealed.

Bengel said, “My curiosity for art first presented itself when as I child tried to imitate the works I saw at my first visit to art museum Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

“I won my first art competition at school, age of 18.”

He said he wasn’t taught the sand technique but just learnt it “by doing.”

The creative, who was born in Ostfildern and studies art and philosophy at the University of Tubingen, said, ‘A few years ago I asked myself “what do I have to do to be a successful artist?’

“My answer was: ‘Find something unique!’”

Bengel’s artwork generally takes a month, or 80 hours to create, however he once spent nearly 300 working on his biggest creation — a copy of the Palace of Versailles.

(SD-Agencies)