Sorry!

I haven't posted anything in a long time! I have the whole summer off now, and will be posting and creating more art. Still doing requests!

My Fathers Day Present

This piece was my fathers day present. It looks the spit of him, and has very detailed hair

This is my GCSE art desk, showing some of my work aged 16

Everything

Some sculptures

Some portraits

Chalk and Charcoal

A response to a DaVinci foetus 

Customs?

So this is my favourite of my sculptures, resin Angry Elf. I'm gonna experiment with some different custom paint jobs over the next few days. Will report back to the ol' blog of course.
Gotta get through an interview first though. Wish me luck!

Animations!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMsPfo-KqO8

This is an animation I did as an experiment for school. I was responding to Aardman animations style. Its unbelievably hammy, very silly, but its all good fun. The designs for it are further down the blog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k2pbteB5KE

And this animation is just practicing with the camera. I wanted it to look like my friends limbs were moving weirdly, but completely naturally.

Concept Design.

This is an idea I had aaaages ago. I used some really quick rough water colour paints for this. I will retry it with my pencils. Its basically about 2 insects in love, who are about to meet their doom with the daily gardening. I call it, "Love and Lawnmowers", and I'll show you the final piece once its done.

Creepy friends

I also love to change images to make them sinister. I took a couple of pictures of my friends and painted, sketched and digitally manipulated them. I like how they look like photographs.


This is my best friend, with a vinyl uglydoll. I later went on to make this on a canvas using acrylic paints. This was so popular that my friend had to have it.

Photographs

I took these pictures in response to the photography of Arno Minkennen. I loved his play on reflections, and use of his own body. These have turned out very well, I love the different tones and textures, the reflections along with the shapes of my body look incredible and I couldn't have asked for anything better. These were shot using the timer on a camera, then editted on photoshop.

Head colour ideas

So these are some potential paint jobs I chucked together on Photoshop. I'd change the base colour of the pieces aswell. Smile would have a dirty green colour, with some extra detail, such as wrinkles, a few decorative spots.

And the Grumpy Monkey would be possibly brown, or a dark olive green as fur going around the edges, with a paler skin colour in the middle. As a Grumpy Monkey, he'd need sunken eyes, wrinkles, real skin definition.

Wall mounted heads.

This weekend I made 3 heads, to which I will add to a wall mountable plaque. Im very proud of these. They've turned out well. I think I'll make more individual heads for the same purpose.

They will come with a name engraved at the bottom, like any other objects mounted on a wall.

This is probably my least favourite. Its meant to be a beast, sort of like one of the main aliens in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". Once painted I am giving it a top hat.

This was the first I made. I was just watching TV and was playing around with the clay, and I came up with this. My parents keep calling it "The Grumpy Monkey" Even though it wasnt meant to be a monkey, the name has stuck. I think this has a lot of character.

I love this. The teeth are so effective and this looks really creepy. This is the first time I've ever used marbles as eyes, which are brilliant for making the glossy, smooth shape of an eye, but it also give it structure and something to work around. I call this "Smile"

They will all be presented in a similar version to this: A fish plaque I made for my brothers birthday.