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After four long months
the traveller girl returns
family complete
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by Scooj
- On picking up our daughter, who has been travelling in Southeast Asia since mid-April this year. So good to have her back safe and sound.
Month: August 2024
6307. Muriel Alleyway (9)
It is a bit of an old cliché, but the idea of men going fishing to get away from their wives is one that has caused great mirth for as long as I can remember, and probably a lot longer than that. I imagine Sir Izaak Walton probably deployed the same reasoning when composing the Compleat Angler back in 1653.
Merny has captured the anglers fishing in rather angry looking water really well, and I rather enjoyed the concept when he told me what he was going to paint when I met him just before he started. This is another vibrant and humorous wall from Merny, who has been on fire this summer, perhaps inspired by his exhibition.
6306. Sparke Evans Park (103)
I haven’t posted many No Frills pieces for a while, in particular from Slim Pickings (TES), even though I have a whole stack of them in my archives. I don’t know how I’m going to manage the situation, but I’ll think of something. This is a nice collaboration from Slim Pickings and Biers.
I have stuck with the original names I used for both of these artists, for the sake of consistency, but you won’t find anyone else referring to Tes as Slim Pickings or WD40 (Jimothy Slip) as Biers. In this piece Slim Pickings offers his TES letters, of course, in a nice black and white combination with a light touch on the white outlines.
Biers appears to have abandoned his combination, pieces lately, dropping his characters and concentrating on his letters, which might be why I haven’t posted much of his work lately, because I do love his characters. Fun stuff from the No Frills duo.
6305. Dean Lane skate park (741)
Over the past few months some rather nice script writing has appeared all over Bristol, with the words ‘Nice One’. I had nothing more to go on about the artist, until now, when a signed portrait by the artist appeared in Dean Lane recently. Unfortunately the identity of the artist remains a mystery, and until I know more I will refer to them as Nice One.
This is a fantastic portrait piece painted in a ‘brush-stroke’ style, as if it were a charcoal sketch in a black book. The proportions and perspectives are superb, the work of a trained artist I would guess. I love the expression on the character’s face. The bold ‘e’ in the signature is something I’ll be looking out for. More to come from this Natural Adventures debutant soon.
6304. Muriel Alleyway (8)
This was a bit of a red-letter day… not only was it gorgeous weather, but I got to meet Mind 49 for the first time, having been following his work for a number of years. He was painting alongside the Bristol Mural Collective at Bristol’s smallest street art festival at the end of July.
This is the first shutter piece that I have seen Mind 49 paint, and although the portrait is magnificent, I’m not convinced that the uneven surface lends itself well to his style, or at least in a narrow lane, where you can’t stand back to get the overall impression of the piece.
This is one of the first times that I have seen a full face portrait piece by Mind 49, as he usually likes to paint heads from all sorts of different angles, or with obstacles hiding parts of the face, creating a sense of mystery. A very nice piece indeed from a lovely artist.
6303. Cumberland Basin
This fine Mote and Mr Crawls collaboration is at the northern end of Ashton Avenue Bridge, and greets with good humour all who cross it. The pair appear to have gone with a full-on monster theme for this collaboration, combining their styles well.
Once again we see their preferred chrome background, which is a quick and easy way to identify the artists. On the left, Mote’s monster, in pink, has a little bit of Frankenstein’s monster about him, perhaps sub-consciously. On the right, Mr Crawls has gone for the melting face look, a device used by other artists such as Laic217. It works really well with this character piece. All in all, a tidy and fun collaboration.
6302. Cumberland Basin
I’m not entirely sure how Acer One finds the time to paint so much, but I am glad that he does. One of the upsides of self-employment I guess. This is a really classy design piece in one of his favoured spots, which he pretty much ‘owns’ these days.
The word ‘love’ is written in the same format as the background, and emerges from it due to the curves in the lettering where they depart from the horizontal background pattern. If the letters were to straighten out, they would disappear into the wall altogether. The piece is nicely conceived, and as always with Acer One, beautifully executed.
6301. M32 roundabout J3 (617)
You’ve got to grab the opportunities when you can, and that applies equally to artists as it does to me. Kid Crayon and I Am Ian have been out and about a few times this summer, and knowing that they are busy people, it is great to see them painting walls and enjoying themselves.
This recent collaboration on the M32 roundabout wall showcases their artistic skills beautifully. kid Crayon has produced one of his light-hearted writing/character combinations, which I have to say is really good. It is always nice to see the floating crayon, KC’s signature symbol, in front of the character’s mouth. There is a little shout-out to the Gums and Tongue crew on the character’s baseball cap.
I don’t think I have ever seen any writing from I Am Ian, I don’t think it is his thing, but his characters are always interesting and usually humorous. This rather forlorn character at least is able to comment ‘What a beautiful day!!! I Am Ian’s pieces are often accompanied with the words ‘sit up’, although I am not entirely sure of their significance. A wonderful collaboration from these two fabulous artists.
Hedge trimmer
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Peak middle England
time to tidy up the hedge
with new cordless aid
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by Scooj
6300. Sparke Evans Park (102)
I haven’t featured Kid Krishna’s very much over the last few months. That doesn’t mean to say he hasn’t been painting, he has, it just shows how difficult it is for me to keep up with the volume of wonderful artwork being produced in Bristol on a daily basis. I might have to do a catch-up collection of Kid Krishna’s work, just to put things right.
This is a striking and quite unusual combination piece by Kid Krishna with his graffiti writing (which might spell out CRIE – it usually does) and a muscular skeleton, who I think it is Skeletor from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe franchise. The two parts of the piece are juxtaposed creating quite a special look. It feels good to get back on the Kid Krishna merry-go-round.
Natural adventures 