The Queen's Diamond Jubilee: unusual portraits created to mark the event (26pics)

Nicola Wood completes a sculpture of the Queen at the annual Weston-super-Mare Sand Sculpture festival

Artist Jane Perkins has created three portraits of the Queen made from discarded pieces of rubbish. The triptych depicts the monarch in three stages of life: during her Coronation, Silver Jubilee and the Diamond Jubilee. Two of the portraits are seen above.

Artist Peter Mason, renowned for his portraits of celebrities and politicians made out of postage stamps, has used thousands of recycled stamps to re-create an enormous version of the Machin Stamp portrait of the Queen. It was unveiled on 25 May in the atrium of Whiteleys Shopping Centre in London and will be displayed until 28 August 2012.

Artist Terry Woodvine from Norwich has a constructed massive portrait of the Queen out of more than £2,000 in real money

To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, Cobra, the official beer of the Jubilee Garden Party, commissioned ‘beer artist’ Karen Eland to produce a portrait of The Queen using just beer and spices as her paints. The artist also painted a portrait of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge using beer and spices.

Henry Hargreaves poses with his portrait of the Queen made of toast in his studio in Brooklyn, New York

The Queen has been immortalised in a portrait made of hand-decorated 2,012 cupcakes. Her Majesty's face has been portrayed in a giant artwork called 'Cupcake Queen'. Leeds-based baking brand Dr Oetker commissioned food artist Prudence Staite to create the picture to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee.

Gerhard Jenne works on a test section of a pixellated portrait of the Queen made out of cakes, at Konditor and Cook in London. The finished portrait made up of 3,120 cakes, one for each week of her reign, will be displayed in Battersea Park on June 3, 2012, at the Diamond Jubilee festival.

Zac Kieran, 3, plays with a 60kg portrait of the Queen, made from 300 packs of Cheddar, created by food artist Prudence Staite for the British Cheese Board to encourage people to buy British cheese for their Jubilee celebrations

A portrait of the Queen carved onto a coffee bean is seen next to a needle. Willard Wigan created what is believed to be the world's smallest portrait of the Queen to celebrate Douwe Egberts' support of The Big Jubilee Lunch.

A work by street artist Bambi depicts the Queen astride a motorcycle, on Windsor Street, Islington, London

Buckingham Palace has been recreated entirely out of duck spring rolls, as a tribute to Her Majesty in her Jubilee year by high street frozen food retailer Iceland. They've called the work Duckingham Palace...

...The huge model took an entire week working around the clock to construct and 3,000 spring rolls. It was designed and constructed by food artist Prudence Staite.

Model maker Giorgio Pastero places a new Lego model of the Queen, complete with a real diamond-encrusted crown, next to figures of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke of Edinburgh and Duke and Duchess of Cornwall on the balcony of a model of Buckingham Palace at Legoland, Windsor

Jewellery designer Dinny Hall holds a 10cm Lego figure of the Queen complete with a real diamond-encrusted crown at Legoland Windsor

A flag with a portrait of the Queen made entirely of Lego is pictured in the window of a shop in London, ahead of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations

Self-portraits by 200,000 children are projected onto Buckingham Palace to form pictures of the Queen, in the Face Britain project...

Self portraits by 200,000 children are projected onto Buckingham Palace to form portraits of the Queen

Helen Marshall has created two mosaic images of the Queen - one from shortly before her coronation and a more recent picture - out of thousands of photographs sent in by members of the public...

...More than 5,000 people submitted photographs to be used in the mosaic the size of a double-decker bus. The artwork was organised by BBC South East Today and the local BBC radio stations of Kent, Sussex and Surrey, asking viewers to send in pictures for the project.

Madame Tussauds employee Keeley Scothern poses with a new figure of the Queen, produced in honour of her Diamond Jubilee

Artist Dominic Wilcox creates a portrait of the Queen on a Jaffa Cake - using just his teeth

Biscuits depicting the Queen and Union flags sit on trays at Biscuiteers in London

A mug has gone on sale for the Queen's Jubilee - incorrectly featuring a picture of the Queen Mother. The £10.99 mug is being sold on www.guandongenterprisesltd.com but all may not be as it seems. The website shows the firm's registered office is in North Finchley, London. 

A giant photograph of the Queen and the Royal Family waving from a balcony at Buckingham Palace during the 1977 Silver Jubilee celebrations is unveiled on the front of Sea Containers House on the banks of the Thames in London. The huge banner was produced by Service Graphics, based in Chessington.