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.

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.

This is my elf in a dress, one of my favourite sculptures, next to a kitten which was given away as a present. Most of my sculpture work nowadays is made in Super Sculpey, as seen in the background. A closer picture of him is further down the blog.



Again, the 2 characters together, with a baby in the background. I make anything..




And this is a bit of a sinister spin with the baby.. Creepy. Im hoping to have this guy, head and hands jumping out of a jack in a box on springs. Working progress.

Animation

For one of my final year pieces I decided to move my art and sculpture along by making an animation. It was in response to Aardman, as I used to dream of working there. This animation was about a polar bears struggle against global warming, took ages and got me very frustrated, but I got there and loved it.


This is his smiling face, also a T sound.

This is an M, or closed mouth



And an O. Its all quite simple, but very effective.

Figure Design

This is one of my figures made a month or so ago. Its about 4 inches tall. I think it would work well as a black DIY figure for other artists to customise. I roughed out a colour scheme using photoshop, but haven't painted it yet.

AS Level work

These are some of my AS level 6th form school projects.

This is an Art piece, based on Jacob Epstein's work. He's a screaming head, about 25cm tall. I must have been 16 when I made these... God.

And this is a dragon bust I made, the eyes have been digitally coloured, but I'm quite proud of how this has turned out. as approx 15cm high.

And here are some of my photographs. I couldn't resist taking pictures of these dramatic skies and landscapes.