Tuesday, 11 August 2009

Lost Colours & Alibis

My good friend and fellow Ikonoklast crew member Remi Rough
has a book. 'Lost Colours and alibis' Covering over 20 years of his work, from his early days, Ikonoklast years and up to present day. 104 pages of original artworks, walls, trains and history

Go to the Agents of Change website and get yourself a copy of this nicely designed, limited release.







And even better, as we've painted together quite a few times, you can find my work in there too.
Lot's of other artists in there aswell, but most importantly, my stuff, so even more reason to get a copy..


Also, check out some of the work from Remi's solo show 'Lost Colours & Alibis' he recently did at the Urban Angel Gallery


Last Chance Saloon

Time really does fly by. The show is well and truly over and a new show is up at Galeria Nuble. But if anyone is still interested in a painting, now is the time to get in contact with Galeria Nuble and ask them before I have the remaining work sent back to me. The small stuff and cardboard work is all gone but don't let that stop you :)
iro iro This girl is based on early Heian style, and inspired by the Hina Matsuri dolls, wearing Juni-Hitoe robes. Love this style as it's really over the top and ceremonial. 'Iro Iro' was the last painting done for the show. It roughly translates as 'this and that' and probably has the most layers of all the work. Starting with a few layers of random sketching with spraypaint, then tagging, quick throw up to cover it, and then buffing it off as much as I can. You can see the first layers just about showing through. Interestingly, I notice that the anti-graffiti stuff melted off all the 'graffiti paint' by Montana but just didn't work on the 'Grog' black ink or Hycote's double acrylic spray.
I gave it a couple of days to dry out and painted a character on top with acrylic. Then framed it with a little throwup.

layers progress

Buffing away the layers makes for really nice textures.
detail textures

Galeria Nuble


The buffing thing really makes me wonder though.. Montana is making paint to directly target graffiti artists and yet it's really easy to buff off. City Council's should stop whining and quit lying about the cost of buffing it off. End custodial sentences for graffiti artists and make them clean it off.