Sketch Blog

2010-12-27T06:25:00.001Z

I don't use this blog anymore, I've moved to tumblr.

New blog:

http://ytakblog.tumblr.com/

2009-08-25T09:58:00.015+01:00

I have lots of stuff to do. I've just sent some work to an off-shoot of The Paper Girl project in Northampton, Massachusetts. The original Papergirl Project started in Berlin, and involves rolled up artwork being distributed "american paper-boy" style to random passers-by. From the website:

"Giving the work out by bike means that there is no time for any stereotypes when choosing recipients of the pieces. You have to react fast and spontaneously. Chance plays its part and there is no time.
The basic idea with the project is to bring art to the public in a different way from normal; to surprise people and bring them into contact with art in their everyday life. Our motto is: Anyone who picks up a roll is lucky, and money can’t buy luck. Such as giving something is most fun when you don’t expect anything in return!"

Papergirl #3 from Papergirl on Vimeo.

I'm a big fan of the idea and project.

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2009-07-17T16:09:00.002+01:00

I contributed some work to this excellent zine, put together by Megan Sandover-Sly.

Contributors include:

Carol Esther, Gareth Hopkins, Imogen Bradbury, Jon Steward, Jonas Gunnarson, Luke Person, Mel Stringer, Michael Verhaaf, Nik van Es, Rafsya Vector, ytak and Zeptonn.

Each book is sewn/bound by hand and also contains hand-colouring.

You can buy one here:
friendsnotenemies.blogspot.com/

2009-06-03T18:18:00.002+01:00

2009-04-14T05:20:00.004+01:00

Screenprints. Very pleased with these.

*Edition of 30
*2 colour, hand pulled screenprint on 130gsm cartridge paper
*Variation of 5 colours: red, peacock blue, orange, yellow and silver.

2009-04-05T10:12:00.004+01:00

2009-03-12T09:42:00.004Z

This is an old video, but I forgot to post it up on here earlier. Its of an 'It's yours, take It!' Event in Belfast that I sent some screenprints to last year. The local news covered the story and you can see the lady who picked up my piece in the middle of segment. Its pretty weird to see your work on the news. :)

2009-03-11T07:43:00.002Z

I sent some work into this project a while ago, and was lucky enough to be included in the "MailMeArt" book. This image is over two years old, so its a bit different from the things that I'm (trying) to work on now. Anyway, its very nice to be included, especially since some of the artists in this book are completely awe-inspiring to me.

They put me next to a Jon Burgerman interview near the front page, which really made me very very happy.

2009-02-25T19:04:00.003Z

2008-12-07T05:53:00.000Z

2008-12-02T01:09:00.000Z

The latest set of screens that I have been making haven't been turning out quite right for some reason, which is quite annoying. Some detailed areas aren't washing out after exposing the screen, so instead of wasting the screen and starting again I have overlayed the images to create new images. I will probably use these as backgrounds for other paintings or pictures.

Kind of nice creating something useful out of something which was imperfect. Creating something else out of something else's imperfections.

Hmmm, interesting.

2008-11-28T05:33:00.001Z

2008-10-30T23:21:00.001Z

2008-10-24T23:54:00.001+01:00

2008-10-10T00:36:00.011+01:00

I'm in this book!!!!!! Available on amazon, here.

For more info about the book and exhibition click here.

I've also been doing more screen printing...! Love houndstooth...

2008-09-22T04:38:00.004+01:00

I love screenprinting. So much fun, and very addictive.

2008-09-20T00:09:00.002+01:00

Screen-printing!! I'm going to be printing alot more t-shirts and photographic images. More to come.

2008-09-15T23:59:00.000+01:00

2008-09-11T21:44:00.002+01:00

Put up by ITW for the REUSE PROJECT 2, in Tel Aviv. Reusing a 3 storey, one block long, abandoned building set to be demolished. Very cool project. Happy to be a part of it, as some of the other artists taking part I hugely admire.

Statement from the show:

"The REUSE PROJECT 2 here in Tel Aviv was a great success and has accomplished its goal to raise public awareness about the issues of abandoned and publicly forgotten spaces in the process. REUSE PROJECT 2, like the first REUSE PROJECT in Jerusalem last year, has become a larger challenge to the public and an exercise in space liberation, urban renewal, and guerrilla art. Its about giving back something positive to the community and making a social statement through our expressions at the same time."

See more images here.

2008-07-31T02:46:00.004+01:00

Mini canvas. :)

2008-07-24T16:41:00.006+01:00

I have finally put some items in my neglected etsy shop. Check my shop out here.

2008-06-20T05:06:00.007+01:00

I sent a piece to New Orleans for 'Its Yours, Take It!'. The idea behind 'It's Yours, Take It' is a simple one, trying to make art more accessible to the general public. It involves a group of world wide artists sending their work to be displayed at impromptu street galleries that are created in a public space. Each piece of art is available to take home by a member of the public for free. Events have already taken place in, Tel Aviv (Israel), Southport (UK), Chicago, Honolulu(USA), Tempe (USA), Phoenix (USA), Coffs Harbour (Australia), Winnipeg Manitoba (Canada), New Orleans(USA) , Singapore, Boston (USA). So far, the response from artists who give their work freely and from people who haven taken art from the shows has been overwhelmingly positive.

Also, check out the cool little video from the event in New Orleans below...

2008-05-15T08:45:00.005+01:00

I went to Paris, here are some pics...

2008-05-02T13:02:00.003+01:00

Saturated with colour.

Art trade from Bonus Saves! yay.

2008-04-25T13:35:00.001+01:00

Another collab doodle with Simon Mills. I like how this one turned out.

Sketchbook pattern.

2008-04-21T14:01:00.002+01:00

Second collab doodle with
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bored_skater/

2008-04-07T14:23:00.006+01:00

Collab doodle with Simon Mills .
The image is originally black on white. More collab images to come soon.

2008-03-28T23:36:00.001Z

Left in a phone box.

2008-03-23T10:32:00.005Z

Playing with photocopiers. I want to make a zine.

'It's yours, take it!' on the streets of Tel Aviv. Put out by the brilliant Inspire/ITW.

2008-03-18T23:59:00.006Z

I'm promoting the NOISE festival, an online arts festival for young people. Its free to enter and submit work, and open to anyone under 25. They sent me this big box of goodies in the post. The button badges are great, really well designed. There's big posters and stickers too.

www.noisefestival.com

Above: Nice lady who let me put some flyers in her shop, she has a NOISE button badge on too.

2008-03-12T22:04:00.011Z

Experimenting with colours and shapes. Free art on cardboard left in a red phone box.

Work in progress. Charcoal on lots of different bits of cardboard taped together. Its probably going to be a big free art piece.

Its still quite rough at the moment, i'm copying it from this picture of a family travelling on a scooter through India. I'm also trying to improve my figure drawing. I'll post the finished one, when its done/placed. :)

2008-03-08T10:55:00.002Z

Free art piece.

2008-02-23T13:35:00.005Z

The bottom two pictures are for 'It's yours, take it!'. The cardboard cutout is going to Hawaii and the little wood panel to Southsea in the UK. I wonder if anyone has ever mailed themselves in a box to Hawaii, with airholes in of course, hmmm. I'm not happy with the wood panel, it didn't turn out as I wanted it too, which is a bit annoying, but ehhh, lol. I'll do a better one next time.

The drawing at the top is just me playing around with these figures, its really interesting trying to use as few lines as possible/ trying to simplify everything. I'm going to put some proper figure drawings on here soon, seeing as I can actually draw human beings to a certain extent. Also, I'm going to be in a book about mailart, which is incredibly exciting!! yay

2008-02-13T17:19:00.000Z

2008-02-10T20:39:00.000Z

Hand drawn lettering inspired by Hot Chip's new album.

I love my camera. :)

Above: For 'It yours, Take it!' outside exhibition. More information about this here.
This cutout is going to Arizona.

2008-01-30T17:46:00.000Z

Cavities.

Playing with new camera. I like the colours, I suppose these are meant to attract people to pick them up. Also, to get little kids to ask their parents to buy them as they are right near the counter. Hmmmmm.

Mmmmmm pretty colours!

2008-01-17T10:03:00.000Z

Free art cutout. Also the Free Art Seattle show is up! Go check it here.

2008-01-11T11:38:00.000Z

If you take this literally money can buy you a giant dog with a pole sticking out of it's head, an ipod, a swirly glowing thing and a film case. Congrats!

ahem... lol. Just playing around with collage.

2008-01-06T15:54:00.000Z

Taken with a lomo fisheye 2. :-)

2007-12-21T10:08:00.000Z

One of the things I've sent to the free art seattle exhibition. Pasted paper on wood, paint and spraypaint.

2007-12-17T21:15:00.000Z

I'm really pleased with this. I had permission to use the skyline photo and altered it a bit. I scanned some spray paint drips in also and layered them behind the type. I like the candy pink colour.

:)

2007-12-16T13:54:00.000Z

For the the Constructing Co-Existence project (above).

2007-11-26T13:01:00.000Z

Free art in the park.

2007-11-14T07:17:00.000Z

Been playing around with lots of patterns recently. Every spare bit of paper is covered with them! Have also been playing around with typography. I love hand drawn type.

(song lyric)
Ink and photoshop.

2007-11-03T22:41:00.000Z

Fitting a person/figure into a square. Playing around with geometric forms/shapes. Ink on vinyl floor tile.

2007-11-01T01:46:00.000Z

Another chimp. Spraypaint /stencil on wood.

2007-10-25T13:16:00.000+01:00

Spraypaint/stencil on wood. Fluorescent orange!!!

2007-10-21T21:53:00.000+01:00

These pieces were created for the concept of free art. To leave art on the street for someone to take or destroy/do whatever they want with. They weren't permanent and I wanted to embrace the buddhist belief of impermanence when creating them. Making me not getting attached to the work and focusing more on the process.

I left these under a lit walkway at night. Some people who can only be described as chavs (I hate to stereotype people, but if you don't know what a chav is look here... www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chav
were walking by them and destroyed them. They didn't notice me or the friends I was with at the time
as we were quite a way off. I was a little annoyed, seeing something that I created destroyed. Anyway thats the whole point, people can choose what they want to do with it. It just depends on the person who finds it.

I plan to do a lot more 'free art' but I'll pick a better place to leave them next time. I'll post more free art soon.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/freeartfriday/

2007-10-14T19:18:00.000+01:00

2007-10-13T07:04:00.000+01:00

Chimp on wood panel.

2007-09-27T19:46:00.000+01:00

Torn paper sketch

2007-09-27T19:32:00.000+01:00

Dog.

2007-09-27T19:14:00.000+01:00

Yeti - I like this.

2007-09-27T16:44:00.001+01:00

My brother asked me to draw/doodle, do whatever I like over the walls of his flat/apartment while he was away in New York. It was alot of fun.

Posca pens, spray paint and house paint.

2007-09-21T17:31:00.000+01:00

My generation.

2007-09-17T16:42:00.000+01:00

T-shirt graphic for the Allmightys competition

2007-09-14T16:29:00.000+01:00

Spotty cow - Posca pens and brown paper.

2007-09-12T18:57:00.000+01:00

Playing with photocopiers, and sheets of doodles. Coloured in photoshop.

2007-09-09T11:22:00.001+01:00

2007-09-06T10:46:00.000+01:00

2007-09-01T06:32:00.000+01:00

2007-08-29T22:38:00.000+01:00

Careers Fair supplement cover for my local newspaper. It's a competition, I hope I win! (lol).

2007-08-19T09:24:00.000+01:00

2007-08-16T14:03:00.001+01:00

Handmade book/sketchbook made using recycled paper.

Its bound using a Japanese book binding technique which you can find here.

2007-08-07T03:38:00.001+01:00

Mixtape for a friend. Actually its a cd! Oooooo Fancy!

2007-07-28T20:27:00.001+01:00

Work in progress. I need to ink this and add some text.

2007-07-27T14:46:00.001+01:00

2007-07-19T10:32:00.000+01:00

2007-07-18T12:24:00.001+01:00

Button Badges! :)

2007-07-12T17:12:00.001+01:00

I have just bought this book called, 'If you could...' Illustrators and designers from around the world were asked to submit entries to the question, 'If you could do anything tomorrow, what would it be?' It's so good, the work in it is great and there's lots of talented people in it. I would recommend the book to anyone.

http://www.ifyoucould.co.uk/issue2.htm

Here's mine - haha!

2007-07-03T23:23:00.000+01:00

http://www.startdrawingforliveearth.blogspot.com/

Go green people!!! Follow the cow's example!!

2007-07-02T23:08:00.001+01:00

Image from my sketchbook, modified with photoshop.

2007-06-04T13:17:00.000+01:00

Blackbird.

2007-06-02T19:53:00.001+01:00

This used to be an old chair seat. Its painted with house paint. I just wanted to experiment with Typography. The words are just random things that popped into my head.

2007-05-31T08:12:00.000+01:00

I like things stuck to envelopes.

2007-05-30T23:39:00.001+01:00

YUM. Taking this pic was very very difficult, the raspberries seemed to disappear.

2007-05-30T14:08:00.000+01:00

Illustration Friday - Cars

Cars, cars, cars, cars, cars!

2007-05-30T10:06:00.001+01:00

MOO!!! :) The second image would make great wrapping paper. I like the second image alot.

2007-05-26T01:56:00.001+01:00

Feeling sheepish?? HAHA. Just a bit of fun. :)

2007-05-23T04:34:00.001+01:00

My retro camera, Pentax K1000.

2007-05-09T15:05:00.000+01:00

Possessions. The image has compressed for some reason, how annoying.

2007-04-27T14:07:00.000+01:00

My design for the Don't Panic poster comp. The theme was INNOVATION. You can vote for it here.

2007-04-24T18:51:00.000+01:00

Done in illustrator. Haha.

2007-04-17T04:20:00.000+01:00

2007-04-05T07:02:00.000+01:00

Figure sketch. I wasn't going to add anything originally to the image, just scan it in... but I couldn't help it. It's ok. I'm not sure about the blob thing in the right hand corner. I think it works though, kind of.

2007-03-26T05:40:00.000+01:00

Illustration Friday - I Spy...

There's a spyglass on the table. I first thought of a spyglass then drew this image. Created with tea, coffee, matches, ink and coloured on the pc. Painting with coffee is fun.

2007-03-19T21:55:00.000Z

Some sketches. Enjoy, lol. :)

2007-03-09T09:46:00.000Z

Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I'm happy with this.

2007-03-06T23:22:00.000Z

2007-02-27T11:59:00.000Z

Image for a 'get well soon' card for someone.

2007-02-23T21:53:00.001Z

2007-02-22T12:51:00.000Z

New header thing for shop.

2007-02-20T13:26:00.000Z

I'm selling prints if anyone is interested. The prints are of my 'Penguin Army' illustration. Its an edition of 30, printed on 280gsm SILK stock. I sent them to a printers, so they are very good quality. They are signed and numbered on the back. If anyone wants to purchase one go here

Anyway, I love the prints, the paper is all shiny, ooooo shiny. Penguins!!!! :)

News!!!

I just got pick of the week over at AmateurIllustrator.com for my penguin army illustration!!! Yay! Thats pretty cool!! By the way go check out that site its great, and full of alot of talented people. Penguins!!!

2007-02-19T11:17:00.000Z

Illustration Friday - Gravity.

2007-02-15T04:29:00.000Z

Penguin army!

2007-02-10T15:27:00.000Z

2007-02-08T01:24:00.000Z

Guess which cartons are real? I like the way that you can take something out of it's environment, i.e - a product from a supermarket shelf and call it art. Just like Andy warhol did with his famous Campbell soup cans, well his screen printed ones. Mass-produced art. I'm into Pop art at the moment. By the way its snowing here. SNOW!!!!!

2007-01-31T23:24:00.000Z

Ahhhh where have my arms gone!!! The horror!!! Muwhahahahha!

2007-01-25T16:44:00.000Z

Sheep stack.

2007-01-25T11:54:00.000Z