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Your Step-by-step Guide to Creating Bacon-based Works of Art

Your Step-by-step Guide to Creating Bacon-based Works of Art
This guide will take you through the production techniques towards reinventing your favourite works of art as an alternatively palatable painting.             
 
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Step 1Pick a Particularly Meaty Artwork

Pick a Particularly Meaty Artwork
Begin by selecting the artwork that you wish to baconly appropriate. This Lucian Freud self portrait makes a useful starting point for its exaggerated, meaty flesh tones.
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May 15, 2011. 3:05 PMDr.Earl Insanity says:
uh....this be creepy, but it also makes me want to deep fryer...deep fried bacon baby anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1niqKEK465E&annotation_id=annotation_328678&feature=iv
May 13, 2011. 8:08 PMcraftyv says:
Ugh. I am so busy being revolted by the images that I can't get to admiring the artistry bit. I'll never be able to look at bacon in the same way again.
May 12, 2011. 2:03 AMpcarrington says:
youve turned a bacon sandwich into artwork, inspiring
May 10, 2011. 5:49 PMflyingpuppy says:
How can the dog stand not eating the baby?
May 10, 2011. 2:49 PMOtisDrftwood says:
Seriously.... that baby... nightmares... awesome, delicious, nightmares.
May 10, 2011. 5:48 PMflyingpuppy says:
Third degree burn baby. But clever...
May 9, 2011. 11:49 AMscoochmaroo says:
So first you make the sculpture out of the meat, and then you photograph the sculpture and create a painting of the photograph? This is really something. It's too bad the sculptures themselves aren't sustainable. It's very creepy and lovely at the same time.
May 9, 2011. 3:17 PMpoofrabbit says:
Throwing it out there to Alexander Ross and scoochmaroo...... Do you guys think you could resin the sculpture and preserve it? Just a thought. I adore the process you are using Alexander Ross! I just wonder if you couldn't also preserve in someway the original sculpture, it would be sort of neat to see them all together (sculpture, photo, painting) in an exhibit.
May 10, 2011. 2:51 PMpoofrabbit says:
I'm reminded of Francis Bacon when I see your work (and I love him btw). I also think of expressionist who completely rock in my world. So, I think it's great. I understand the idea of rotting, I'm just fascinated by your process and (I assume) you show your work. I just hope people understand the process, because if I just saw your end result, I would be amazed, but man seeing your process and the end result I'm flat out blown away. :) I dig your work, keep it up! I hope you will be posting more to instructables. :)
May 10, 2011. 7:39 AMjessyratfink says:
Deliciously creepy! :D
May 9, 2011. 2:45 PMWhiternoise says:
Bacon-baby wins my creepyvote.
May 9, 2011. 2:44 PMpmearns says:
This genuinely disturbs me. How much did all this bacon set you back??? I hope it was sainsbury's basics.
May 9, 2011. 2:30 PMpoofrabbit says:
This is so very cool! Nicely done!! I gave you my vote, good luck!
May 9, 2011. 1:31 PMsoeinegaudi says:
as a vegetarian i have to say, i'm shocked how you "play" with food
but we all have to make sacrifices for art !!!
this might be one of the creepiest, and sickest things i saw on the net (well according to what one hears there still seems too be much worse... )... but i have to admit, that i actually am really impressed by your sculpturing and drawing skills.
i think this is awesome :)
May 9, 2011. 1:14 PMllawrence1 says:
metamorphous
May 9, 2011. 3:26 AMdbacon says:
Flesh-tastic.

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