Artist Studio: A Peek Inside the Creative Process

Explore the vibrant world of artist studios through our curated collection of articles. Delve into the unique spaces where graffiti artists, street artists, and urban artists bring their creative visions to life. Discover how their environments shape their work, from the tools and techniques they employ to the inspirations that fuel their artistic journeys. We showcase a range of studio setups, highlighting the diverse approaches and styles of artists across the urban art spectrum. Whether it’s a sprawling warehouse or a compact apartment, each studio tells a unique story of creativity and dedication.

Fin DAC, A London Stencil Artist

Two days ago, Urban Art Core published an exclusive sneak peek on London stencil artist Fin DAC’s latest stencil artwork Blackjack, of his fabulous female stencil art series. For those who want to know more about the London-based stencil art master, Abid Khan recently published a nice portrait of Fin as part of his inspirational artists video series, filmed in Fin DAC’s very own studio! It’s about beautifying something rather than destroy it. Cutting stencils is so hard edged and flat, I can’t get the depth, the fading that I want from it, but I still love cutting stencils.. ...

Open Call: Garage Art in Berlin

In history, garages are well-known for their contribution to mankind. Garages gave birth to Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Iggy Pop and other garage bands, etc. Now, a Berlin-based art project gives away nine free garage studios for artists in Berlin… *This is an open call for a nice project in August. The winner gets 1.000 Euro. The participants get a GDR-style double garage for 3 weeks to do whatever he/she wants. ...

Jakob Tolstrup Studio-Visit

The marvelous paintings and illustrations by graffiti-inspired Danish artist Jakob Tolstrup describe his worldview in the humorous way of someone who was born in the middle of nowhere - the countryside of Denmark. During the last couple of years, Jakob not just pushed his amazing painting series forward, experimenting with different techniques, materials and mediums, but also worked together with different galleries and invoiced several papers and magazines for his illustration works. ...

Artconnect Berlin: Artists Network

I’m pretty sure, some of the Berlin-based readers already heard about Artconnect Berlin, nevertheless I have to write some lines about this new networking platform for artists, because I like the idea behind… Artconnect Berlin is a free tool for Berliners and provides you the opportunity to have an online portfolio, tag yourself by your skills, and find or be found by other creative heads. Additionally you have the possibility to offer jobs, and post classifieds about material, studios and general questions about Berlin and it’s creative scene. All in all this sounds like a nice, new thing to check out, especially because the creative scene in Berlin changes every day. I already joined, so make sure to add me as a contact after you did the same! ...

Word To Mother Studio Shots

Do you remember that dope exhibition by London-based urban artist Word To Mother at Stolen Space Gallery in 2010? If not, you’ll soon get the chance to see some new works by the talented British lad, because Word To Mother is preparing his next show at Stolen Space Gallery, entitled Essence Of Adolescence right now! My friend Ian Cox recently visited his studio and took some first photos of the new artworks. Make sure to save the date… ...

Rero, La Jarry, Paris

I just received an e-mail by well-known French urban artist Rero, who informed me about a ruthless initiative by the city of Paris, who plans to break down the beautiful La Jarry, an old, huge and crazy building near Paris, which is used by many artists as studio and exhibition space… To escape of this tragic end, several artists organised the exhibition-series Saving La Jarry, which also includes a work by Rero, who was invited to paint one big word on the huge facade: the crossed out letters PARADIGM! Rero describes it as follows: ...

Matt Adnate, Studio-Visit

Australian urban artist Matt Adnate is in Berlin right now, preparing new artworks for his upcoming solo-exhibition at Box32! He recently invited me to his studio… Born and raised in Melbourne Adnate, who is part of the AWOL crew, originally comes from plain letter-writing but started creating photo-realistic paintings and has also worked with larger than life canvases, wooden sculptures and mural works in the last years. His latest urban artworks combine the rough nature of spray-painted tagging styles and the fineness of portrait-painting and can also be found in some abandoned areas in and around Berlin! ...

Ron English Studio Visit

ron english - studio visit The crew of itdrewitself.com recently hook up with famous US-American painter, interventional and pop propaganda artist Ron English for a small photo-shooting in his studio. Yes, Ron is the guy who is that famous for his billboard-bustings that he has his own vinyl action-figure and who did that crazy “Cloud Graffiti” stuff two years ago! All the more it’s of-course interesting to cast an eye at his most private working area, although it doesn’t look like a studio but like some kind of Ron English museum… ...

Saber, The American Graffiti Artist

Graffiti Flags | US-American graffiti artist Saber got a massive popularity push back in 2009 when he created that brilliant graffiti flag video to support the US-American health care reforms by Barack Obama. Afterwards Jeffrey Deitch, the famous director of the controversial MoCA in Los Angeles, decided to support Saber as one of the most representational figures for today’s graffiti and street art movement. Featuring a level of sophisticated detail, including collaging, and the skill you would expect from one of the world’s greatest graffiti writers, these pieces represent an artist at the top of his game. (Arrested Motion) ...

Studio-Visit: Morten Andersen in Berlin

Graffiti Fine Art | Danish urban artist Morten Andersen, who is part of the London-based art label “Beautiful Crime”, started - as many well-known urban artists - his career on the streets as a graffiti artist. Since a few month, the originally Aalborg-based artist has a studio in Berlin and for that reason and because I really like his detailed and abstract artworks, I met him in his studio for a small photo-documentary… ...