Nice Up The Walls....street art...jamaica mi soon come....

NUW... Nice Up The Walls

From 12th January to 12th February 2012

JAMAICA WE SOON COME...AND WE "NICE UP THE WALLS"

Linda Zina Aslaksen                       Louis Masai Michel

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To our knowledge, no international artists have visited Jamaica since the recent Hurricane to use street art as a means of bringing colour, life and aesthetic remedies to the community. This is the key objective that we wish to achieve with Nice Up The Walls. 

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These photos are a small collection from the photos that i took 5 years ago on my last trip to Jamaica...they are taken in the hills of Gayle, at a surf camp with billy mystic, Kingstons closest beach (i have forgotten its name) and a place i don't rate to highly, Negril...

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WHOLE HOUSE, FREEEEEEEEEEZE.....

JUMPING JACK FROST AND THE TIGER CUB

its october...we are in london...we dont have any snow...least not yet...were in a derelict gasworks station...and yup thats a mountain peek up there....lots of artificial snow and one slope that is one hell of a long way up...way too many neon colours, bobble hats and shirts that look like dresses...gotta love the snowboarding scene...making ends out of an english winter...o and they love their bassline...its a bit like a surf festival but with angry bass instead of hellow mellow beats...lots of wide eye people instead of stoners...i wouldn't have called this a festival as rather an excuse for making some money as there was a lock down que on the main tent to see any of the live acts...at least the slope was a good consolation prize...just felt sorry for all the people that bought their tickets....not being a grandad about it all though as had a greet two days....thanks to upfest for setting this up and also to the jumping bean buritto boys and gal, for those tasty burittos...kept me going....

www.louismasaimichel.com

http://adnilart.blogspot.com/

http://www.relentlessfreeze.com/

http://www.upfest.co.uk/

this is the first proper collab that linda zina aslaksen and i have done to date...we talk about it alot and finally got it together...kept people guessing throughout the two days, linking the two bits together, right at the end....

being that it was a snowboarding event i wanted to link in my love for the wooly pattern i wear so much...linda was working in blues so i opted for the pattern being blue...now im looking at the photo i see all the bits on the ears i could have improved on....

the link up in motion

"im so cold im turning blue you so lucky you got all that fur mister...."

"where you want me to plug you into then little man...?"

bit of the details on the fur...really happy with the colour palette....and managed to sneek in a bit of the fabric pattern in there too...

free hand pattern close up on the ear...few people asked if it was a stencil...made me smirk that did...nice up the homemade stencil cap there...

the blue tint to the eye helps to make this little chap look like a cub...well i think so...

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...damn miss zina you getting good there arent u....nice eye work...

little hipstamatic fun...

snub dropped in....and then zooomed back off again...think its another self portrait that one...

brave....liking that awesome grinners...

dank...showing some frightfully slick tones...gonna have to do a paint together soon....

other artists were... rob wass aka data, id-iom, dephect, pilot...the light was shit by the time i got round to taking shots of everyone else's work and the ones i didn't get too many people were stood in front of...for more shots take a peep at the upfest facebook...

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Upfest-The-Urban-Paint-Festival/123655691054889

      

ALL THAT GLISTENS IS NOT GOLD

BEAR GRILLS...ALL THAT GLISTENS IS NOT GOLD

truman brewery...bristol...

was lucky enough to have not been rained on over the last two days so managed to squeeze in an extra paint on this trip...just a quick one though because in the end it did what southwest does best and rained, and hailed and was really really cold...

he is wearing teeth grills, which is just about seeable...

i hadn't planned this paint so didn't bring my gold, could only buy burner tin, which is horrible paint for this type of thing so i learnt...ruuuuuuns, is really separated and doesn't have nice pressure...perfect for burners no doubt...anyway managed to bumble my way through...and was happy with the end result...

some hipstomatic fun...

THE SEVEN OF CUBS

THE SEVEN OF CUBS SHOWS HIS HAND

Hotwell Road bristol england

i originally did this illustration for a project called the rat pack card deck...

http://cardproject.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=117610860

it was a while ago and nothing has resoleved much since then, it needs a few more artists to finish the project...so if u like the sound of it join in...any way i recently did a few wheat pastes of the illustration, in fact i think i put some up in amsterdam in the spring too but anyway since the illustration was being brought back to life i wanted to paint him....

i was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time after the see no evil project in bristol and overheard that the painting that case had done at upfest 2011 well part wheat paste was peeling off and the owner of the wall wanted it painted over, i voluntered the idea of a new painting...so stephen got it confirmed and here is the outcome...this is alink to cases painting...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/phade71/5798341162/in/photostream/

that link seems to have some of the best images of the painting, as case left it...credit to phade 71...

case is an artist that i have been following for a while now and i love his work here is a link to his website...http://www.sexyartcase.com/ i admit to feeling a bit of pressure to create a new wall that everyone would like as much as the previous...

day one left me at this stage... its going well and the passers seem to approve although a lot of people have been showing love for the old painting...pressure pressure pressure...

the bear is done and now i shall introduce the tattoos...

this shot shows how tall he is...about 15-18 ft i think...

so the tattoos are in place and below is a few close up 

the tattoos represent the human attribute in the image...tattoos are something i don't feel the need to have on my own skin, but i really enjoy putting them into my artwork...i want to work on the technique of how tattoos illustrations look more, i think i probably should have done these lines a bit thinner...

love the clubs...

hate the spades...

there is no hate without love, there is no love without hate...love who you are and learn to love what you are not...that is the idea behind this painting...

i really like how these stars turned out using the transparent black helped to create shadows that made the tattoo look like it was moving on the pad of the paw...

ca cest fin....

a little plant growing hearts and diamonds...does money grow on trees....does love grow on trees....i feel that this part of the paint helps to remind the viewer that the image has strong references to a pack of cards...and links back to what the illustration was originally about...

close up... im loving how the shadows turned out on this...

watch out lola theres a bear behind you....

special thanks to stephen hayles at upfest for sorting this out for me...

http://www.upfest.co.uk/

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