Graffiti, Marker & Spray Cans

Mode2 is well-known around the world not just for that fantastic nude artworks, but for his amazing character styles he spread throughout Europe as one of the most central figures of European graffiti. In the last months I had the chance to see his latest works twice, first when he visited Berlin and second when painted under the Westway in London… Today I found that nice interview Kay One did with Mode2 in the great depth of my RSS feed reader and I highly recommend to read it, if you like to know more about the history of Mode2 and how graffiti connections were established 25 years ago… ...

Graffiti Mural | It’s top graffiti news today (1, 2, 3), famous graffiti artist MadC finally finished her huge graffiti wall! At the beginning of this year, the probably most well-known female writer started to sketch the single elements for that giant 639m² wall. Since then, the spectacular graffiti project went on and on and now it’s over! Some days she went up and down the ladder more than 500 times, painted more than 4 months every day at least 10 hours. MadC used 1489 Molotow Premium cans; 158 different colours; 600+ caps; 3 different kind of caps, 100 liters primer; 140 liters exterior paint; painted at temperatures from +2C° to +38C° in sunshine, rain, storm, day and night; painted her biggest and smallest piece so far and overall painted her name far more than 100 times on this wall. (molotow.com) ...

Graffiti Artist in Action | Do you remember all the urban artists like Herakut or Ben Eine who did live paintings as a part of the Moniker Art Fair earlier this year? Another famous artist who painted at Village Underground was Hamilton Yokota aka Titi Freak! While the São Paulo-born graffiti artist created a colorful mural on one of these nice brick walls in East London, I took some photos of him in action. Yesterday I had some time and uploaded them to my urban art photography blog, so you are now able to type in the letters www.urbanart-photography.eu into your web browser, to take a look at the Titi Freak photos and to give me some feedback. ...

Graffiti Documentary | All parts of the popular street art and graffiti documentary Bomb It 2 are online now! Now you are able to watch the street artists Klone, Inspire and Know Hope in Israel and Phibs from Everfresh and Twoone in Australia as well as Great, Bates, Victor Ash and HuskMitNavn in Copenhagen, Zero in Singapore, and many, many more! Just wanted to let you know that the final episodes of Bomb It 2, which has seen Jonathan Reiss and his crew travel to Asia, Australia, the Middle East and the beyond, exploring the local graffiti scenes and speaking to local artists will be going live today! (via e-mail) ...

Marker Fight | This week, the Paint Club Finals 2010 will take place in Halle, Germany so make sure to save the date! In the last months, Paint Club travelled a good deal through the hottest metropolises of Europe, but now it’s time to break and to determine who is going to be the international Paint Club champion in 2010. Therefore, all champions of each urban hotspot visited during the European Tour were invited to come to Halle… ...

Graffiti Fine Art | This time it was really hard to decide a heading which makes sense - on the list were for example “Russian Graffiti Drawing”, “Graffiti-inspired Art from Russia”, “Drawn Graffiti Paintings”, and a lot more which is why Russian artist Aykovskiy combines fine drawing, fine painting and nice graffiti skills to very interesting canvas works! Honestly I know nothing about him/ her. I just got an e-mail with these very interesting motives and I thought it would be great to share them with you. Also Google knows nothing about Aykovskiy, except the fact that he/ she is on Flickr…maybe it’s because i can’t read Russian… ...

Studio Visit | He combines tape, paint and aerosol and creates in that way really nice urban-inspired, abstract and rough artworks. Yes, you’re right, I’m talking about London-based painter, musician and agent of change Remi/Rough! Back in 2008 Remi/Rough held court at London’s Tate Modern and talked as part of the Tate’s Street Art exhibition on the underground history of UK graffiti in front of a sell-out auditorium. Now, in October 2010, I met him in his nice studio in South London, had a cup of tea and took some shots of his creativity area and his latest artworks. Today I published some of them on my Urban Art Photography blog… ...

Mural Art | I can’t understand anything but I really love that brilliant video showing Spanish graffiti and street artist Aryz painting a concrete wall in Barcelona earlier this year as a part of the Concrete Walls Project! Living in Barcelona, he got in contact with the local, very creative and inspiring street art scene early and developed an own, unique characters style. Now, he is well-known around Europe for his amazing murals and pieces (just remember that beautiful work he did together with Smash137!) that he uses spray-cans as well as paint rollers and brushes for. ...

Herakut is probably the most famous and popular urban art duo from Germany. Their impressing mixture of rough, dirty painting and photo-realistic elements is well-known all over the world. In October, I met both of them at the Moniker Art Fair in London and had the chance to document their live painting at Village Underground. I really enjoyed watching them painting one of these typical London brick walls and in my opinion they did a great job again. Take a look at the rest of my photos over there on my urban art photography blog or on flickr and write me what do you think about the painting, Herakut and my photos! ...

Good news: The next parts of the new graffiti and street art documentary “Bomb It 2” by Jon Reiss is online now! After Bangkok and Tel Aviv (Remember the post I wrote last week!), the four new episodes present urban artist from Copenhagen, including Great, Bates, Victor Ash and HuskMitNavn. They show Great and Bates painting a wall while talking about their passion for their work, HuskMitNavn talking about why he only bombs characters, and what he doesn’t want his neighbors to know and Ash talking about how he migrated from doing illegal to legal graffiti… ...