one more street artist and some sketches

One other artist from Unurth.com that I was meaning to share in the last post was a guy who goes by the name of Ludo.  He uses collage and paint for his street art, focusing more so on content than technique.  He's put up work in a ton of places including France, Italy, New York, Chicago, and LA.  The contrast between nature and technology that reoccurs in his art is pretty cool.

by Ludo

You can check out more of his work here.

With Thanksgiving, and my whole household getting sick, I really didn't have the time or energy to paint much over the last couple of weeks.  At least I got a little bit of drawing in.  Here are some recent pages from my sketchbook...

 

~ eye should get a better sketchbook soon...been trying to use up pages quicker in my current one because everything seems to smudge easy in it.  It's a crap-lousy, generic, drugstore brand..should've known better ; )

some awesome street art

I came across a site yesterday called Unurth.com that has all sorts of different street art.  I was surprised by some of the unusual styles that I saw.  Seems like "street art" is totally evolving into something that includes a huge range of styles.  Maybe it has been this way for awhile and I've just been oblivious to it until now.  Some of the pieces would feel right at home in a gallery setting, so it was pretty cool to see them outside, most of them crazy big, on walls.  Here are some of my favorites...

by Phlegm

Harnessing of the Squid - drawing inspired by the original painting above

I really like some of his line use for shading and for a long time now I've been pretty much obsessed with stage prop-looking elements in art (like the waves in his drawing above).  Click here to see a time lapse video of Phlegm painting several walls last year.

Then there's Roa (below), who created these larger-than-life animals on buildings as part of this event called "Wide Open Walls-an Art Safari", where seven or eight artists painted for 2 weeks in the African village of Kubuneh.

 

While poking around looking at Roa's work, I found another artist, Lucy McLauchlan, that was part of the same event in Africa.  She uses a lot of fluid lines and patterns in her black and white paintings, and sometimes includes found objects.  She lets the space that she's painting in kind of dictate how her pieces develop, which makes the art look like it belongs in the environment.  Here's a cool video of her painting a staircase at Lazarides Gallery in London...(if your browser doesn't show the video directly below, click here)

and Aryz (below) makes some really colorful and unique paintings...

Aryz - Love Letter

I dig the overall feel of the painting above and how the girl seems to fit so perfectly on the building.  I also love his way of coloring contour lines as a shading technique.  You can see more work by Aryz here.

Some others definitely worth mentioning...

-Claudio Ethos...check his art out here.

-Kislow, who has a more surrealist style...here's a little article from Juxtapoz about him.

-Max Zorn works in a smaller scale, but using a technique I've never seen before.  He uses blades to cut away at layers of brown packing tape on plexiglass, then illuminates them by clamping the artwork to streetlights.  One of the most unique processes I've ever come across.  Check him out here.

~ eye should posts some sketches again tomorrow.  I've been in the mood to doodle and sketch more than paint the last couple of weeks : )