Juice, Rough and me painting into the ev

Juice, Rough and me painting into the evening for Mutate Britain 2

I am in Hastings, painting stuff. This m

I am in Hastings, painting stuff. This mtn 94 paint is really good for sketching.

Frankfrazzetta by gravy paste

Frankfrazzetta  by  gravy paste

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 :)
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.



Buffing away the layers makes for really nice 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.

Yellow Kimono

'Gaijin No Bijinga' at Galeria Nuble in Santander.


My show, up now until July 4th, originally started with the Yellow Kimono, my first picture of the show that inspired the direction I was going to go. Originally called 'Sykimono' for the postcards, short for 'system-kimono', it is now called 'Kikimono', Kiiro(Yellow) - Kimono, basically short for Yellow Kimono. Paper and antique calligraphy pages wood glued to canvas before painting acrylic and dye.
The main head decoration is based on the traditional Geisha 'Kanzashi' hair ornaments. In place of the flowers is my 'System' piece.



I mostly stopped painting lettering in my graff when I joined Ikonoklast in 1989 and went through my Gigerism biomechanical style. And I always just liked painting characters anyway, and was always happy to be the character guy when doing productions. I still do outlines in my sketchbook or doodle on old paper and even hide them in my illustration work now and then but you won't see them very often. When I worked in computer games I would hide my name somewhere in each game I worked on. Lettering is something that never leaves you, and it's what makes the graff art movement so unique. After all these years I still love all graffiti. A city just doesn't feel right for me if it isn't written on.
But I still also like drawing. This is the original sketch on old newsprint paper.

Life-size Gundam

This is simply the greatest piece of awesome ever created.
God created Man. Man took out a rib and created Woman. Man promised he would call Woman the next day but instead he created Life-size Gundam!!
That's exactly how it happened...



Photos on Danny Choo's website.
And some nice night-time shots too
The original press release to announce that all this is to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Gundam.
I really want one of these. Not sure my shelf could take it though..