Spongebob Crumpits

My mum bought these from Morrisons today. I can't believe these have only just been thought of!

Body Paintings

Last year at college I had a project called Body/Self where I had to create something using that theme. After vising that Body Worlds exhibition by that crazy German guy who plastinates bodies and puts them into weird positions I decided to try and recreate the same kind of effect but on top of the skin rather than under it.

I started off by using my friends hand to test on so that I could get the grasp of how to blend the colours together (watercolours)..

Then I began to work on my own hand, this time trying to fully cover it and make it look as realistic as possible which I've got to admit didn't turn out quite as good as I wanted it to..

I finally decided to experiment on my sisters arm so see if I could paint the muscles on so that when she flexed her own muscles it would define the paint more and I actually think it turned out quite good considering I only had a short amount of time to do it because she had to go somewhere. Also, you may notice that when you click on the second photo to make it bigger you can see little white bits near the top of the painting. This is where it had started to crack as it dried out. I kept trying to paint over the white bits but by the time I could more of the paint had cracked somewhere else so I just gave up on that and finished off.

Old Art

Here's some of my older art from my portfolio..

Me

Here's a drawing I did a couple of weeks ago. It's an image of me made up of the name's of everybody I've ever met (and like, and could fit onto it..)

Agyness Deyn

Here's a drawing of Agyness Deyn that I finally finished yesterday (which I really need to take a clearer picture of)..



I started off by printing the original image out onto 12 pieces of A4 paper..

For each piece of A4 I cut off a strip of pixels and copied each pixel out using a 4B pencil depending what shade the pixel was. I then continued to cut out the rest of the strips of pixels until each A4 piece of paper was copied out. Here are two pictures showing the way I blue-tacked the paper down to cut the strips away and copy out..

..and here are a couple of pictures of the pixels close up..

I'm actually quite pleasure with how it turned out in the end, though I do think the hair and lips ended up a bit rubbish. I'm also a bit annoyed about her jacket because I was gonna shade it grey but it was really difficult to do so because it kept ending up so patchy so I just left it white which makes it look like I've still not finished..
The next time I try this technique I'll probably use felt-tips and create a coloured image instead. I'll also probably take my own picture or use somebody else's with permission next time because I just found the one I used this time on the internet somewhere and it doesn't say who took it so I can't really credit or contact whoever took it. Seems like this one will just have to stay in my portfolio..

Young Photographer Awards

Last December I went to the awards ceremony for the RSPCA Young Photographer Awards 2008 at the Tower of London after being one of the 33 shortlisted entries. I ended up coming as a runner-up in the 12-18 category and won an Olympus camera, a framed copy of my photo and some other stuff. Here's a picture of me (2nd from the left on the back row) and the other finalists on stage..

..and here's the photo that I entered..

..and here are two videos that I just found that I'm lingering about in..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDQPblISkbc

http://www.bsn.org.uk/view_all.php?id=14691

Art

Hey to anyone who's actually reading this. My name's Jake, I'm 18 and from Manchester. I'm really interested in art so I've decided to use this blog which I seem to have abandoned for years to post pictures of the work I've made, pictures of other artists that I like and probably just anything else that I find interesting. I also like to do a bit of photography but I have a flickr page for that which should be on the side somewhere..