Painting Walls: Graffiti, Street Art & Urban Art

Street art belongs on the road - The Canadian urban artist Roadsworth takes this literally. He paints directly on the streets and uses thereby pre-existing things like road markings. Since about 2001, he reinterprets various elements of the urban landscape with his original street art. His unique style of his interventional painting, makes him popular around the globe. Peter Gibson (Montreal, Canada) otherwise known as “Roadsworth”, looks to street lanes, crosswalks, and traffic markers as the inspiration for his painterly interventions. In what he refers to as “Pedestrian Street Art”, Gibson employs humble materials of stencils and spray paint to turn the street into his canvas. The resulting work re-fashions the all too familiar signage of streets and sidewalks, creating a whimsical new twist on civilian wayfinding. (press release) ...

For graffiti artists around the world, fire extinguishers become more and more popular. Whether Katsu, Moral, KR, or others, everywhere urban artists use the high-pressure tanks to paint their tags in oversize. But there’s at least one disadvantage with that modern technology of mural painting - when the pressure capsule is empty, you can throw away the fire extinguisher… More comfortable is it to use smaller pressure sprayers. Yes, I mean those (pesticide) tanks you can buy for little money in every DIY market. The guys from Just Straight Photos recently made some action with there own ink tank! It’s nice to see, how good this special high-pressure tank works for painting some big tags… ...

Last weekend, the “Wallbreakers Festival”, which toured through Germany the last months, ends with a big get-together in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The last part of that street-art-exhibition-series was a exhibition, including live painting and music session, by Neoangin aka Jim Avignon, who presented some really interesting paintings. The idea behind the “Wallbreakers Festival” was it to discuss 20 years breakdown in an artistic context: “2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A historical moment in German history, as well as for the cultural scene of the Street Art movement. On one hand, the Berlin Wall represents a salient symbol of the Cold War and the separation of Germany. On the other hand, it represents a creative areal of a peacefull revolution and the biggest open-air galery in the world.” (artwallbreakers.com) ...

This is an amazing video - silver drips on black metal! As I already told you before, I love the abstract style of KR’s artworks. And when I saw the nice photos of the “Krinked” Mini Cooper, I was really charmed! Yesterday, Mini and KRink published the corresponding video clip, which shows KR while customizing the car, the car itself and the beautiful drippy lines on it. ...

From week to week, it’s harder to decide the three urban top shots from the Urban Artcore Flickr-group, ’cause every week there are are more members and a lot of great shots. What, you don’t know what I mean? Every week I feature the three best Urban Artcore shots of the last seven days. Perhaps you have a great shot of urban art, graffiti, architecture, street design, or other urban impressions, too – Become a member of the Urban Artcore Flickr-group and add your photos! ...

“Sombras” is the name of the new mural art book by Spanish street artist Sam3! After he printed his own small book, called “Tirá me de la lengua”, at the beginning of this year, he decided to make a real hardcover book about his outdoor artworks. Sam3 is, like many other urban artists too, a globetrotter - his well-known mural artworks can be found all over the world. For this reason, “Sombras” shows not only his impressing works, but also the different locations and cities where he painted. ...

In 2008, the two talented Norwegian urban artists Dolk and Pøbel hit the fjords of Norway and painted abandoned houses! The pictures from back then went around the world. This project is ongoing with more works added this year! To set the mood for new huge mural artworks, the video documentation “Living Decay” was published. It’s a suggestive daily log, that narrates through 4 tales, the making of these huge paintings inside the unique northern landscape. ...

I like the abstract character of the artworks by urban artists Nuria and El Tono! Both belong to the most famous street painters worldwide although or even because of their simple style with its great recognition value. El Tono and Nuria use tape and acrylic-paint for their artworks, which are at first view actually not more than colorful lines, but at the second or third view the spectator recognized the architectural influence. ...

Yesterday, the German urban artist duo Herakut painted live in Berlin! I was there for taking some photos… Herakut - Between graffiti, street art and art Hera and Akut combine with their mixture of graffiti and contemporary fine arts the urban roughness of the streets and the natural richness of detail. Yesterday, the both artists showed in an impressive way, how they interact with each-other and in which way they create their artworks. Tinting paint, water and spray-paint became in several hours a dirty, interesting and impressive mixture and lead to a harmonious whole. ...

It’s an event of superlatives - The “ARTotale – Urban Art Project” goes into its third day and the artworks continue to grow. Fortunately, Just is on the spot! Germany’s best street art documentalist not only presents the video live stream, he also publishes a selection of his top “ARTotale” photos every day! Whether Ben Eine, Evol, Pius Portmann, Swoon, Vitché, Moki, 1010, Tilt, Daniel Man, Brad Downey, Boxi, Victor Ash, Jay-One, Dave the Chimp, Tryone, Daniel Tagno, Zezao, Bronco, Faith 47, Loomit, Herakut or Daim, Just got them all! ...