SHAMBALA PAINT JAM

before this year i have only been to shambala once in support of my friend samuel j a few years ago, that year there were so many ridiculously well established graffiti artists painting, i couldn't believe it... i have been on the case to get involved myself ever since, finally this year it was my turn...i managed to get linda a spot to paint aswell...im not sure why but the standard of other artists was no where near as good as the year i was last here.  Having said that, the guys painting (malarky, sweetoof, milo, codefc,) were really cool peeps and i had a good time...massive thanks and shout outs to oli for sorting this out for us all, u can count on me to be back next year.... heres the link to the festival...

http://shambalafestival.org/

Dancing bear is brought to u... by inspiration from the native indians of a lost america...the native indians were very spiritual people and respected the bear as one of their own amongst many of mother natures creatures.  I decided to bring a level of spiritual connection to the painting i did at shambala because its such a down to earth spiritually uplifting festival....shame the idiot upstairs left the bloody tap on though cos it poured and poured and pourrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrred with rain....it took two days to get this finished after dodging rain every 30 mins or so and that was after two days of no painting at all cos of the rain....still had muchos fun though.....

used stencil caps , home-made ones of course for the first time, so much drips suited for the rain i guess...was nice to get such skinny lines for working on the fabric in the jumper dancing bear was wearing.  i wanted to keep it looking flat though which is why no shadows or ripples are in the top, i like the change from a rounded bear to the flatness of the jumper. below is the original i did in the studio, it was exhibited in bristol at the upfest gallery show i had back in february...im enjoying using my old studio designed works out on the streets at the moment... im finding that the size and change in medium is making he work stronger on the street than in the studio, which is quite exciting....

 heres a few shots showcasing the layers i work with, thanks to the people of shambala for forwarding these photos to me.....there was a bit of dogging and mud pie throwing at the paintings which was really sad to see amongst so many good people at a festival.  i guess thats too much alcho pops and drugs for u...had to really keep an eye on the cans too cos idiots kept trying to wise crack me, stealing em, i think i managed to get em all back...

heres lindas work, getting better everytime, a link to her blogspot is here 

http://adnilart.blogspot.com/