THE CALLY SQUARK

Cally Fest is a community run street festival, based in the northern lands of london. After the painting that i created there last year of lola my recently passed boxer dog i feel a very close attachment to the street. I spent the whole of last week up a monkey lift painting this new mural being asked.. if i done that painting of the bulldog round there...yup thats me...thats proper mate, proper... Its nice to know that even as a painting my girl has made impacts on peoples lives...any way so a new year, a new wall, one i been eyeing up since November last year... timed perfectly to launch this years Cally fest as lola did last year.

Cally website 

HERE 

when i decided to paint macaws on this street, i wasn't really aware of why, other than i thought it would be cool to paint with so many insanely vibrant  colours. After a week of painting i realised that it was humorously apt that the squark of cally road matched the squark of parrots.

 The actual street that i was painting-Tilloch street is the boundary of one of the gangs...they are mainly youth and they all ride on bikes or mopeds, seldom on foot. They are pretty un threatening or at least they were accommodating to me, but one afternoon two kids decided to throw bottles and stones at me whilst i was balancing some 50ft up in the sky, balancing on the tip of the lift, painting this guys feather tips...and i do wear flip flops so yeah was a bit sketchy at times...

macaws come from latin america and in conjunction with my current works i added fabric patterns to the feathers. I also added a few musical apparatus in an attempt to link in the painting i did last year of lola... where she is wearing headphones.

Unfortunately the monkey lift didn't reach to the top of the wall and so i had to stop three quarters up... its my aim to get some funds together to finish the wall with a couple more birds... any ideas are welcome at this point.

it didn't seem right to be painting this street on my own and so i invited some friends to join in on the fun...enter hunto, tizer and milo...hopefully more pieces will continue to arrive...

tizer

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hunto

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milo

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with thanks and praise to one of my favourite london street art photographers 

Myriam Preston

FORESTGATE GETS A LICK OF PAINT

THE LITTLE SHOP OF HUNTERS

i painted this for the local pet shop in my neighbourhood...FORESTGATE NEWHAM LONDON...its the beginning of a big project i am going to attempt...the project will be titled the animals of forestgate, heavily influenced by a favourite book of mine when i was a kid..the animals of farthing wood...the idea is to create a trail of animals down to the forest from one end of the hoods to the woods...

when trying to encourage someone to let me paint on their shutters , walls etc it always pays to attempt to work with their ideas, in this case the shop wanted fish as they are trying to expand more towards selling tropical fish...i immediately thought it would be fun to have a kitten hunting for the fish...the shop sells cats too so it wasnt too hard to get the idea across... 

although i have painted lots of gold fish and koi carp in the past iv never done tropicals or for that matter with sprays, so this was a fun challenge... the cool thing about tropicals, is their bright colours against translucent whites and the same can be said for the painting of them...the black background made it even more exciting watching the colours pop out...

the fish were painted completely under street light, which is the first  time i have really painted at night and so i was a little apprehensive as to how they might look in the day time, having said that with exception to sundays these shutters will mostly only be seen at night anyway so the fact they look ok in the day also is a bonus...

so lola what ya think about an oversized kitten taking over your local pet store?

well obviously im outraged...and hope that a canine appears somewhere soon, and it had better be one of me...nuff said...i will be pissing on it when ur not looking by the way....hehehehehe