Star Wars & Simpsons salads

REFERENCES:

How to make Side Show Bob Spicy Salmon Salad on Craftzine

Make crane croutons for your salad

Make minature salad (for a dolls house)

Fish salad

Salad Flowers

Salad Clothes

Making a cakehead baby

As well as the terrifying baby cake and lifesize hound dog-shaped sugar sculpture (above), below are some more of Michelle Wibowo’s amazing sugary creations. I particularly like the cupcake big enough for 2,000!

Ugly duckling art installation

Cute yet powerful art installation from Sam3 – entitled Ugly Duckling.

Manic Lifeblood

Whoa – these images were created by the design studio FARROW for the CD art of The Maniac Street Preachers album, Lifeblood. Photography by John Ross. They were created by pouring buckets of fake blood all over a model who was later taken out of the images in post production.

Ant genocide for art

This is fundamentally wrong on so many levels I am not sure where to start but I’ll give it a go…

An artist has used over 200,000 dead ants to make a ‘painting’ of his brother. The portraits from artist Chris Trueman are designed to look like an old-timey yellowed photograph, except with hundreds of thousands of harvester ants instead of photographic film.

“They’d die in a couple of minutes and then I’d sprinkle them onto a flat piece of Plexiglass,” Trueman said. “Some ants would break apart because they were dried out, and others would be in their full form.”

via Bizarre

Graffiti trainers

Sole Heaven and Zero Cool Gallery recently teamed up to create art on a bunch of trainers. The idea was simple; give a bunch of infamous graffiti artists a pair of plain white Nikes, and a conventional canvas, and let them crack on. In terms of creativity it’s an idea as over-exposed as Jordon, but the results are brilliant and speak for themselves (source).

Valay Shende

Monsters & car boots

We’re gearing up for the Vauxhall Art Car Boot at the moment, its on the 6th June at Truman Brewery and as you know I have done it before (but this time it’s all about the monsters and will be soooooooo much better). Oh & Pete Fowler is also painting a Vauxhall car live on the day. What I love about this event is that it makes art accessible to all, and I honestly rock the £30 prints from Peter Blake I have collected over the years from this event.

Here is a sneak preview of the prints which will be sold from the Monsterism Island car boot or to be specific my Triumph Herald.

copyright: Bruno Vincent

copyright: Bruno Vincent

Cast art

I am currently thinking up a ‘Casts for Canvases’ style project with leading illustrators and artists for a children’s hospital so I have been doing some research on the subject, with a view to start setting up the days very soon. Here is some of my research so far:

Leinz Election Results

You would have read about the Leinz “Personalities not Policies” election campaign on this blog before but the results are now in and – of course – have been delivered via art. Find out more about one of my favorite artists at the moment here (and one who has given Billbored much loving for which I thank him).