Hello there , I know it's been quite some time since I posted a blog , the reason I haven't posted has been good, I've been pretty busy!
So I'm going to use this post to tell you what's been going down in Okse Town! (do not try and google maps it,there is no such place)
Now where do I start Art in the Park was good , if you don't know what Art in The Park is, it's a yearly event held in Leamington Spa where many creatives gather together and showcase their works, it's just buzzing with creativity you can smell it and it smells of hot dogs...but saying that it could have been the hotdogs they were selling ...did I not tell you there's food too?
My mate Kate asked me if I'd like to join her at The LSA ( Leamington Studio Artists) tent , she said I would be able to showcase my art, she was like "do some caricatures or something".So I decided to draw Pokemon Trainers and their favourite Pokemon. I thought it'd be quite chilled..it went cra cra (that's how the yoot are speaking )
I ended up doing loads my time management was rubbish so I was glad to have Kate by my side helping us out. Kates got an Art Gallery by the way ,it's very cool She runs it with her business partner Kate , luckily there isn't a third partner called Kate, KKK thats be awkward! ...Anyway here's their site http://www.deasil.co.uk/
Was also great to hang out with Artist Caroline Shotton and her lads.She's a Cow Lady..She paints cows not that she's literally a cow that'd be strange and rude.
Pokemon Trainer drawings are available here on the site https://theartofokse.com/products/pokemon-trainer
Art in The Park 2016 http://www.artinpark.co.uk/
What else has been happening?
Pep and Jose
Middle of August I was asked by BBC Manchester if I'd be up for doing a weekly animation based on the rivalry between Man United and Man City. Pep and Jose.
Now a lot of my friends know that I'm not that big on football I know who Gazza ( he cried ) , Lee Sharp (he went to my school and Emlyn "I know it , I know it , I know it " Hughes ( Question of Sport )are so I jumped at the chance.
I brought my mate Scott Gibson on board who is an editing wizard and we did the business. 9 weeks of getting the script Wednesday night, Thursday morning would be spent creating assets for the visual gags, audio at 12 pm , then to the studio creating all the lip sync and secondary motion, While Scott would put the visual gags together all ready for Friday morning.
Working with our mystery writer was great ( he's like Banksy, though I reckon he's either a Blue or a Red so wants to keep schtumb). The voices were provided by The Mimic Men ..."hang on Okse" I hear you say "I've heard of them" , yes you have they've been on BGT doing The A-Z of Impressions, very funny and great impersonators... "Ooh betty" is about all I can muster. Oh and by the way ,don't worry I couldn't really hear you
It was just a good bit of fun, I learned loads mainly about pies and other Northern food.
oof, Wigen Kebab.. I wont explain.. just google it :)
if you want to see Pep and Jose they can be seen here
That was a very busy time and it lead to more work in collaboration with www.elburydesign.com a great team of professionals based in Cornwall creating an explainer video.
We're going to be adding this as another service The Art of Okse can provide,so if its something your business is interested in please dont hestitate to drop us a line.
from Elbury Design
As well as doing all this cool work there has also been time to have fun , I went to see Tape Face, for those of you haven't seen him he's the Boy With Tape on His Face (literally ) who got through to the final of America's Got Talent, I've known him for years and had painted him many moons ago. So when I saw him I started drawing cartoons of him on Instagram that he reposted and they got a lot of attention.
So I took my friend Neil along to see him, such a funny act, he's a mime artist who does a lot of audience participation. "Okse that sounds hideous audience participation!" No it's brilliant , you won't have seen anything like it and everyone who goes up on stage end up being a mime, it's so clever!
I gave him some framed versions of the art and he was very happy, well it think he was, he had tape on his face.
He's given me a lot of exposure social networking wise and for that I am truly thankful.
Me and Tape Face...or Tape Face and I
I feel like I'm waffling loads but a lot has gone on I've just created a series of emojis for BBC Coventry and Warwickshire , thought it was going to be a small local thing but it's gone world wide.
A lovely lady called Diane Hill was telling the BBC CW That there weren't emojis for her generation so they asked me to come on board and create them , here,s a news clipping with the story
We've been interviewed by loads of people all over the world and I've been on the tele which is quite cool. So if you've come to the site via the news story "hiya"
another thing I've been doing inktober on Instagram , if you search #zoeyandthezombie you'll see what I've been up to.
I think that enough for you, it's been a cool productive couple of months .
I'm taking orders for Christmas so drop us a line,
We've also released a new Sid James print along with others.
These can be purchased here .
https://theartofokse.com/collections/prints
Take care , I'll do another update in couple of months.
L8rz!
