Girls and Boys Grow Old.././. Brighton 2015
Obsessive followers would have noted of late most of my works of the past year are based around the art of tattoo and graphic design. Many artists go through dramatic changes as their lives influence their decisions and their work. I am one such example../.
I have recently started work as a tattoo apprentice at Black Sails Tattoo Brighton, because of this i am finding less and less time for painting and creating Fine Art, it also means i have less and less space for my previous works and my new work expands and takes over i must make room for such changes. I have always been an advocate of free art, street exhibitions and vandalism, In a fond farewell to some of my earliest “serious” art works i found the perfect place to wave goodbye and grow a little… .. ././. Here’s to always moving forward./ .
May 4, 2015 | Categories: Fine Art | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, boys, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, Crafts, evolution, Exhibition, expression, Free Art, free art friday, free art giveaway, gallery, girls, Jakob Belbin, life, New, old, Painting, People, pigeon, school, Solo Exhibition, street art, Tattoo, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, vandalism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
Above are photos of the …//. FRAGMENTS.. .\\\.\ Exhibition which opened 14th November 2013./. Before it filled up./
And below are some ‘poor’ photos of the LOVE BIRDS installation which a third of birds put out were returned and reunited on the night../.
A massive thank you to all who attended, helped, and returned birds on the night./. /x
November 20, 2013 | Categories: Fine Art | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, birds, Exhibition, expression, fragments, Free Art, free art friday, giveaway, Jakob Belbin, Jewry Street Gallery, life, love, pain, pigeons, street art, urban art, urban expressionism, Winchester, www.JakobBelbin.com | Leave a comment
You’ve found me../. And I’m yours to keep../ …For free ./ .
I’m sure that most of us when walking the streets pay very little attention to our immediate surroundings and the creatures we share it with. Most of it gets swept past our eyes and shoved off the pavement as we rush to be somewhere we most likely don’t want to be. These birds, in a way are much like you. They are somewhere they don’t want to be and they want to go home to the one they love. So if you’re the lucky one happen across one of these stray birds take them in and they will love you always,.. . /. /././ .
Go one step further, for each bird left on the street there is an equal and opposite waiting. Bring them to the show where their loved one awaits.. ./.
// . // .. . ./. FRAGMENTS.\\..\\.\…\
Opens Thursday 14th November 2013 7pm – 9pm
Art Café, Jewry Street, Winchester
SO23 8SA
November 13, 2013 | Categories: Fine Art, Photography | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, birds, city, cold, couples, divide, Exhibition, expression, fragments, Free Art, free art friday, free art giveaway, heart, heart break, Illustration, Jakob Belbin, life, love, Love birds, Paint, Painting, partners, pigeon, portrait, Prints, Reclaimed, recycle, recycling, Seperation, soul mate, street art, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts, Winchester | Leave a comment
Pre sketch of the window display for FRAGMENTS Love Birds Give Away. . ././ . More info soon . . / ./..
See event page here for comprehensive updates. . /.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1426226090923455/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
October 28, 2013 | Categories: Fine Art | Tags: Acrylic, art, art cafe, Art Exhibition, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, birds, city, evolution, Exhibition, expression, Facebook, fragments, Free Art, free art friday, Give Away, human, Jakob Belbin, Jewry Street Gallery, life, love, Love birds, New, news, Paint, Painting, pigeon, Reclaimed, recycle, recycling, solo show, street art, Street Birds, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts, Winchester | Leave a comment
As it was announced yesterday i have a new exhibition opening 14th of November../ The exhibition is called ‘Fragments’ and as part of the show i will be dropping pigeons all around Winchester for free!!!./ .. ./ Here is the first wave of pigeons./
October 15, 2013 | Categories: Fine Art | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts and Entertainment, bird, Free Art, free art friday, gallery, Jakob Belbin, Jewry Street Gallery, local artist, love, Paint, Painting, pigeon, pigeons, portrait, Reclaimed, Recreation, recycle, recycling, Solo show (art exhibition), Species, street art, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Winchester | Leave a comment
All Dropped Today In Brighton, UK
April 14, 2013 | Categories: Fine Art, Uncategorized | Tags: Acrylic, art, art giveaway, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, China, city, destruction, East Sussex, England, Exhibition, expression, fans, fragments, Free Art, free art friday, Illustration, Jakob Belbin, Japan, Japanese dolls, just because things break doesnt mean theyre broken, life, love, New, Paint, Painting, plates, pottery, Reclaimed, recycle, recycling, street art, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
The new pile of fragments ready to be distributed this week… . ././.. Look out Brighton./ .
April 7, 2013 | Categories: Fine Art | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, city, destruction, East Sussex, Easter, England, Exhibition, expression, Free Art, free art friday, Jakob Belbin, New, Paint, Painting, Painting Pottery Cafe, plates, pottery, Reclaimed, recycle, recycling, street art, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
All out and about in Brighton today finally thanks to some not unreasonable weather// . .. ././.
October 26, 2012 | Categories: Fine Art | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, city, East Sussex, England, expression, Free Art, free art drop, free art friday, Jakob Belbin, New, Paint, Painting, pigeon, Reclaimed, recycle, recycling, street art, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
Free Art Pigeons.. . . /./. October 2012
October 19, 2012 | Categories: Fine Art | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, bird, city, expression, Free Art, free art friday, Illustration, Jakob Belbin, New, Paint, Painting, pigeon, Reclaimed, recycle, recycling, street art, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
Today i have been very busy indeed.. ./. ./ Aside from all the other little projects i have going on all over the place, today i decided to document the process of creating a whole batch of Free Art Birds.. . ./.
Phase one.. . / This beautiful piece of hardboard i lifted from a skip last night.. . /. So first i had to see just how many pigeons i could get out of it.. .. 9 is the answer.
Next Chop them up with one of my favorite tools
a circular disk cutter.. . // mm mmm m
And then give them all a quick coat of black.. . Again my
favorite of all colors, And i know the knee jerk response
to that “But its not a color, its a shade!” that may be
in the natural world but when it comes to paint every
single shade / color needs pigment to give it said color,
in my case the color of that pigment is indeed black,
and as i stroke the black paint side to side i am coloring.. . . . /./. Its a color.. . ./.
Phase four, time to get dirty and finger paint .. .. . /.
Finally after the paint is sufficiently dry add the final touches in the form of eyes,beaks and sign off . . ./.
Tomorrow i will post close ups of each one of these little fellows before they go on their individual journeys.. . .. /. Some are going to Portsmouth tomorrow to find new homes, Some are going.. .well im not sure where yet it all depends on who wins the competition tomorrow on Facebook,.I will be running another give away to all those who share and like the links, names drawn from a hat at the end of the week.. . find out more here
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jakob-Belbin/176500152446780?ref=hl
And the rest are on a very long journey indeed, they are off to Tel-Aviv to take part in a free art give away in December and you can find out more about that here.. /.
https://www.facebook.com/FreeArtFridayTelAviv?ref=ts&fref=ts
October 18, 2012 | Categories: Fine Art, Illustration | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, bird, birds, city, Color, Exhibition, expression, Facebook, Flying, Free Art, free art friday, free art give away, Israel, Jakob Belbin, life, love, Middle East, New, News International, online competition, Paint, Painting, pigeon, Portsmouth, process, Reclaimed, recycle, recycling, Skip, street art, Tel-Aviv, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
This free art friday i’ve got something on a little larger scale.. . . . /./. 100 sons of gadgets to go on to the streets of Brighton today.. . . .. / ./
October 12, 2012 | Categories: Fine Art | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, Brighton, city, expression, Free Art, free art friday, free art giveaway, God, human, Illustration, Jakob Belbin, life, New, Paint, Painting, portrait, Prints, Reclaimed, Recreation, recycle, recycling, Scale, street art, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
Free Art Friday
I’m sure that most of us when walking the streets pay very little attention to our immediate surroundings and the creatures that we share it with. Most of it gets swept past our eyes and shoved off the pavement as we rush to be somewhere we most likely don’t want to be. These free art birds, in a way are much like you. They are somewhere they don’t want to be too, they also want to go home. So if you happen across one of these stray birds, take them in and they will love you always.. .. ../ .. /.//./ . Find out more on https://www.facebook.com/FreeArtFriday
These little guys went out last week. . . . /./.
October 10, 2012 | Categories: Fine Art | Tags: Acrylic, Angry Birds, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, bird, birds, city, cold, Exhibition, expression, Free Art, free art friday, free birds, industrial, Jakob Belbin, life, love, New, news, Paint, Painting, pigeon, Reclaimed, Recreation, recycle, recycling, street art, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
Though it didn’t necessarily fall on a Friday this week i decided to postpone the free art drops one day and release some birds with a gay twist.. . ../. i hope those who found them took them in to a loving home and didn’t treat them any differently o.O .. . …. .. ../. ./ .
And that’s where i left them. .. . ././ .
September 3, 2012 | Categories: Fine Art | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, birds, Brighton, expression, free a drop, Free Art, free art friday, free art giveaway, free bird, gay, gay pride, human, Illustration, Jakob Belbin, life, love, New, Paint, Painting, People, pigeon, pride 2012, Reclaimed, Recreation, recycle, recycling, street art, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, village people, Visual Arts, YMCA | 2 Comments
August 28, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, birds, city, death, destruction, expression, free, Free Art, free art friday, free art giveaway, free birds, Illustration, Jakob Belbin, life, love, New, Paint, Painting, pigeon, Reclaimed, recycle, recycling, street art, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
Free Art Friday in Brighton and Hove.. . ../.. .. ././.
August 17, 2012 | Categories: Fine Art, Uncategorized | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, birds, Brighton, Brighton & Hove, city, expression, Free Art, free art friday, free art giveaway, Hove, Jakob Belbin, life, New, Paint, Painting, pigeon, Reclaimed, recycle, recycling, street art, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
Set to be released tomorrow.. . . /.
August 16, 2012 | Categories: Fine Art | Tags: Acrylic, art, art drop, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, biirds, bird, Brighton, city, expression, Feather, Free Art, free art friday, free art giveaway, Jakob Belbin, New, Paint, Painting, pigeons, Reclaimed, recycle, recycling, street art, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
A few snaps from this free art friday (thursday).. . . .. /././ .
August 9, 2012 | Categories: Fine Art | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, bird, birds, city, Exhibition, expression, free, Free Art, free art friday, free art give away, human, Jakob Belbin, life, love, New, Paint, Painting, pigeon, plywood, Reclaimed, recycle, recycling, street art, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
Getting prepared to release these birds unto the streets of Brighton.. . …. /./ /. Free Art Friday.. . ./.
August 6, 2012 | Categories: Fine Art, Uncategorized | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, bird, Brighton, city, doves, Exhibition, expression, Free Art, free art friday, Illustration, Jakob Belbin, life, love, New, Paint, Painting, pigeons, Reclaimed, Recreation, recycle, recycling, street art, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
This Easter Sunday there’s going to be a free exhibition in Portsmouth not only is the exhibition free but everything.. .. Everything on display will be free to take away with you. I am really pleased to be a part of this, So many people want original artwork on their walls but most feel it is too expensive to buy or like so many pieces it is just viciously overpriced. There will be 100s of pieces on display from 100s of fantastic artists. So if you’ve always wanted to collect some original art this is the time and place to do it, you may just find your favourite artist of all time. .. …. / . /.
Details here . …. . / . https://www.facebook.com/events/178234632294421/
Here is what i will be contributing, three impressions of Jim Morrison’s mug shots .. .. . /
‘Morrison 1963’ ‘Morrison 1967’ ‘Morrison 1970’
March 22, 2012 | Categories: Fine Art | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, city, drawing, Easter, Easter Sunday, Exhibition, Free Art, free art friday, Free Exhibition, Holidays, Jakob Belbin, Paint, Painting, Portsmouth, street art, town, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | Leave a comment
Today i set off bright and early for Bristol to have a meeting about showing my explosion drawings at the Tobacco Factory, The good news is i’ve secured a joint show for the summer.. . .. but that’s not the best bit, i also managed to drop 6 pieces of free art on route.. . . on my way back through i had noticed that some had already been picked up . .. ….. . . . /.
Also cracked out a little pencil drawing whilst waiting for the train home. .. .. .. ….. . /. / .
February 21, 2012 | Categories: Fine Art, Illustration | Tags: Acrylic, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, Bristol, city, drawing, Exhibition, expression, Free Art, free art friday, human, Jakob Belbin, life, Paint, Painting, Prints, skull, street art, Tobacco Factory, Tobacco Factory Theatre, town, train, travel, urban, urban art, urban expressionism, Visual Arts | 2 Comments
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