STREET ART SNAPS FROM A FLOOZY IN THE GUTTER: Live Drawing

13 September 2011

Street Spotted was 2 days ago..

I've only just recovered and gone through millions of photos so please forgive the lateness of this post, it'll be worth waiting for, I promise.

Look what's now living in my flat (until Vomit decides what to do with it)!

So, Street Spotted was a success! All the artists were brilliant, lots of people came to watch and The Spotted Dog's owner (John) was actually filming some of it so I reckon we'll be able to do it all again, probably April/May next year.

Huge soggy thanks to all the artists (Wah, Mew, Lisk, Vomit, Obit, Rise1, Tommy Human and 6TWO4), Ser and his lovely parents for travelling all the way from Dublin to be there, Lisk's family for feeding everyone with the best curry and nibbly bits ever, John and the bar staff at The Spotted Dog for letting us use the garden and facilitating everyone getting drunk, Slobs and Rachael for lending us six of the boards, all the mates and family for turning up and supporting us and finally to Lisk, my co-organiser, partner in crime and giant ball of stress; I am extremely proud of us for turning a drunken conversation into a real event. Time to start planning the next one?

Photos!

Obit, Rise1 and Tommy Human

Ser

Obit

Tommy Human

Ser

Vomit

Lisk

6TWO4

Obit and Rise1

6TWO4

Obit

Mew

Wah

Tommy Human

Vomit

Wah

Rise1

Lisk

Vomit

Wah

Obit

Obit, Rise1, Tommy Human and 6TWO4

Vomit

Mew

Obit

6TWO4

Mew

Lisk

Wah and Mew

Lisk and Vomit

Rise1, Tommy Human, 6TWO4

Few!

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After Street Spotted all the artists went out pasting, I went out drinking so I took some daylight shots of their work today.

Wah on Adderley Street

Lisk, Tommy Human and Wah on Liverpool Street

6TWO4 on Floodgate Street

Obit, Tommy Human and Lisk on Floodgate Street

Obit and Tommy Human on Floodgate Street

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On Thursday night, Tempo33 added lots of fresh new pastes to the streets but couldn't make it to Street Spotted because he was off being legendary in The Netherlands. I think my favourite place he hit has to be his old spot on the building I live in, he was on there for a couple of years (I've heard) then got buffed but now he's back.

Bradford Street

Fazeley Street

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Links

Wah Flickr
Mew Flickr

28 August 2011

Street Spotted has a poster!

I made a poster! Well, Lisk did all the arty picture backgrounds and names and the logo and the 'live art' bubble and I did the boring writing and wrestled with photoshop for a few days.

I'd like to draw your attention to the additions of Riseone and Mew to the line-up! There will also be free stickers and stuff for the grabbing and some more extravagant work for sale so keep some pennies away from the bar.

If you've not already seen it, here's the Facebook event page, two weeks to go!

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Additions to the streets this week came mainly from PTP who has now departed Birmingham for university related things. He has promised to keep in touch and we swapped some stickers and whatnot but Digbeth and I will miss him.

Big duckie! - Bradford Street, Digbeth

Vomit 'peck' - Bradford Street, Digbeth

(having a go at drawing someone else's character is called a 'bite' but ducks would 'peck', you probably knew that)

6TWO4 'peck' - Birchall Street, Digbeth

My very own Malcom!

Painted spray cans with Marvin duckie and shrooms

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Also new on the streets are some quite badly stencilled moustaches (my can skills aren't brilliant but I haven't covered Digbeth to show everyone).

The mystery moustache person seems to be preparing us for something so I thought they might be promotional, but there's already a well established music event that happens every couple of months called Mustachio! with a very similar logo so it can't be them and I don't see someone blatantly ripping off their design.

Also, they've sprayed one of these moustaches over Golden Boy's giant paste which hurts me inside and is hugely disrespectful and breaks what is surely one of the first rules of graffiti/street art; don't go over anyone else's work unless you're friends/have permission.

'Graffiti Wars' that was shown on Channel 4 earlier this month showed the very creative 'covering over' fight between King Robbo and Banksy (I have fairly reliable info that Robbo's out of the coma now, by the way). Watch it if you can find it, it seems to have been taken off 4OD.

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Links