Tag: 3F fino

5945. Sparke Evans Park (92)

Mind 49 and Fino, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, March 2024
Mind 49 and Fino, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, March 2024

There was a good turnout for the LRS paint jam in Sparke Evans Park last month, with some really good pieces, including this collaborative work from Mind 49 and Fino (previously referred to as 3F Fino in Natural Adventures). The two totally different styles and subject matter of these two artists have combined really well.

Mind 49, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, March 2024
Mind 49, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, March 2024

Mind 49 is consistently turning out some outstanding portrait pieces at the moment, and pushing himself to continue refining and improving his work. I understand that his subjects are randomly selected images, and therefore represent anonymity. His style is edging towards photorealism although the textures of his artwork look very much like brush strokes. Great stuff.

Fino, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, March 2024
Fino, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, March 2024

It would appear that Fino has awoken from his winter slumbers and is starting to paint a little more now, and I was lucky enough to meet him a short while ago while painting with Tao Create on the M32 Cycle path. I thought that he might have moved away, but far from it… just a winter rest. The colours he has chosen for his FINO letters are exquisite, and the fills and borders are beautifully neat and tidy. This is a simple and attractive piece and a great counterbalance to Mind 49’s portrait piece.

5825. St Werburghs tunnel (406)

Werm and 3F Fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2024
Werm and 3F Fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2024

What a nice surprise it was to find this collaboration from Werm and 3F Fino, who I thought may have left Bristol (which he might have done), given the almost total drop-off in his work in the city. It felt coincidental, too, that I found this piece only a day or two after publishing a gallery of 3F Fino’s work.

Werm, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2024
Werm, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2024

To the left, Werm has worked a wonderful piece of writing painted using a fabulous colour palette of purple shades and gold. This sumptuous colour scheme creates an interesting effect, where the letters, counterintuitively, are a little more disguised than you might expect. The gold colour, although contrasting with the purple colours, doesn’t ‘pop’ the piece as much as you might expect, instead it has a rather more subtle impact.

3F Fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2024
3F Fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2024

To the right, a character that 3F Fino has painted many times, is holding up letters that are painted in the same colour scheme used by his neighbour. The letter fills are very nicely painted and go a long way to obscuring the letters themselves. I would like to think the letters spell FINO, but can’t be certain, and have a feeling that the fills might also spell something out. Altogether, this is a very nice collaboration from the LRS pair.

3F Fino

A gallery of character pieces and graffiti writing from 3F Fino or simply Fino

Instagram: @f1no_lrs

Crew: LRS

all photographs by Scooj

3F Fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2024
3F Fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2024
3F Fino, Mina Road, Bristol, March 2023
3F Fino, Mina Road, Bristol, March 2023
3F fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2023
3F fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2023
3f Fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2023
3f Fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2023
3F Fino, Greenbank, Bristol, October 2022
3F Fino, Greenbank, Bristol, October 2022
Werm and 3F Fino, Chatterton Square, Bristol
Werm and 3F Fino, Chatterton Square, Bristol
Full Time Ghoul and 3F fino, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2022
Full Time Ghoul and 3F fino, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2022
3F fino, L Dub, Bristol, April 2022
3F fino, L Dub, Bristol, April 2022
3F fino, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, February 2022
3F fino, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, February 2022
3F fino, M32 Spot, Bristol, January 2022
3F fino, M32 Spot, Bristol, January 2022
3F fino, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, January 2022
3F fino, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, January 2022
3F fino and Werm (Eman), Cumberland Basin, Bristol, December 2021
3F fino and Werm (Eman), Cumberland Basin, Bristol, December 2021
3F Fino, Dean Lane, Bristol, November 2021
3F Fino, Dean Lane, Bristol, November 2021
3F Fino, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, July 2021
3F Fino, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, July 2021
3F Fino, Leonard Lane, Bristol, May 2021
3F Fino, Leonard Lane, Bristol, May 2021
3F Fino, Leonard Lane, Bristol, May 2021
3F Fino, Leonard Lane, Bristol, May 2021
3F Fino, Brunel Way, Bristol, May 2021
3F Fino, Brunel Way, Bristol, May 2021
3F Fino, M32 cycle path, Bristol, January 2021
3F Fino, M32 cycle path, Bristol, January 2021
3F Fino, M32 Spot, Bristol, December 2020
3F Fino, M32 Spot, Bristol, December 2020
Rosalita and 3F Fino, M32 cycle path, Bristol, November 2020
Rosalita and 3F Fino, M32 cycle path, Bristol, November 2020
3F Fino, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2020
3F Fino, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2020

5776. Mina Road (23)

3F Fino, Mina Road, Bristol, March 2023
3F Fino, Mina Road, Bristol, March 2023

One of the nice things about pausing and going back through archives is that it gives me a chance to post those pieces I had always intended to, but never quite got round to doing. This fun spray can character piece by 3F Fino is one of those.

3F Fino, Mina Road, Bristol, March 2023
3F Fino, Mina Road, Bristol, March 2023

This piece in Mina road spent much of its time being obscured by all sorts of shop paraphernalia and rarely saw the light of day, however, I got lucky and managed to capture it when it was partially exposed. The character, with a nozzle for a head, is standing in a pile of what look like banana caps. I felt, that this was a piece that demonstrated 3F Fino’s development really well, and he did a great job on the fabric shadows and textures, and the same with the shapes and orientations of the caps. A really good piece from the artist, who appears to have stopped painting in Bristol (although I saw a piece by him last week). Time for a gallery? I think so.

4987. St Werburghs tunnel (345)

3F fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2023
3F fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2023

The turnover in St Werburghs tunnel is always high in Winter, but this winter it has gone off the scale. New pieces emerge daily, and there have been a plethora of paint jams involving several artists painting together. I hope to get down there today, having been away for a week, and expect to find quite a lot of new work.

3F fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2023
3F fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2023

This lovely piece by 3f Fino is slightly haunting, with a yellow-coated character hanging, phantom-like, over the green and purple FINO letters. The folds in the clothing have been worked really well, with some great shading and highlight work. Overall something a little bit different and also rather good from the LRS artist.

4967. St Werburghs tunnel (339)

3f Fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2023
3f Fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2023

Trainers are quite a common motif in street art, and this is a fine example from 3f Fino in the tunnel, painted during a recent paint jam with LRS crew friends. The brown shoe, nicely designed in a cartoon style, is stuck to the floor with some sticky green goo (chewing gum?), where we find the letters FINO. 3f Fino also recognises his crew with the letters LRS making it into the soul of the shoe.

3f Fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2023
3f Fino, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2023

Set on a red background, there is a lot to like about this piece, as it is different from the regular stuff you see on the street. 3f Fino is not short of a creative idea or two, and it is probably high time I published a gallery of his work.

As you read this post, I should be some 30,000 feet in the air, on my way to France. Timings of posts over the next week might vary, but I intend to continue posting while I am away.

Mr Draws, The Bearpit, Bristol, April 2018
Mr Draws, The Bearpit, Bristol, April 2018

4797. Greenbank (59)

3F Fino, Greenbank, Bristol, October 2022
3F Fino, Greenbank, Bristol, October 2022

It is getting very difficult to keep on top of the street art scene in Bristol at the moment. The sheer number of artists and the frequency with which they are painting, means that many pieces never see the light of day on the pages of Natural Adventures. An artist who doesn’t appear as much as he should is 3F Fino, and I have a great many of his pieces lurking in my archive.

3F Fino, Greenbank, Bristol, October 2022
3F Fino, Greenbank, Bristol, October 2022

I have managed to include this recent one from Greenbank, painted alongside LRS crew friends. The letters FINO are half decorated in a bubble style, that 3F Fino has used before at L Dub, if my memory serves me right. The design as very effective and unusual. Alongside the letters, the artist has painted a masked character jumping out of the side of a spray can with a brick wall motif, used a lot by street artists. All good work from 3F Fino.

4732. Chatterton Square (6)

Werm and 3F Fino, Chatterton Square, Bristol
Werm and 3F Fino, Chatterton Square, Bristol

Chatterton Square is a stone’s throw away from Bristol Temple Meads station and boasts two stretches of wall that tend to be relatively untouched by tagging, and it is a great place for artists to go to town with ‘special’ pieces. This is a rather nice collaboration between two LRS artists, Werm and 3F Fino.

Werm and 3F Fino, Chatterton Square, Bristol
Werm and 3F Fino, Chatterton Square, Bristol

The writing is by Werm and spells WE-RM. It is technically very well done, with a great colour transition in the fills and a deep drop-shadow that has a central vanishing point. The rather intimidating character, perhaps loosely based on the ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, is by 3F Fino. Although the proportions of the character are a little inconsistent, it is well painted and certainly conveys an element of fear.

4472. Dean Lane skate park (495)

You might have noticed that in recent weeks I have started to write three posts a day when I can, and have been posting collaborations and sometimes multiple pieces by the same artist. This is due to the very real situation that there is simply too much art being produced in Bristol at the moment, that I can’t get even close to keeping up with it all. This is a good problem to have, rather like a football manager with team selection dilemmas, but it also means that so much great art may sit in the archives, possibly forever.

Full Time Ghoul and 3F fino, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2022
Full Time Ghoul and 3F fino, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2022

Although this post features three artists, the paintwork suggests that one is a stand-alone piece and thee others two were painted as a collaboration. The stand-alone piece is by FTG (Full Time Ghoul) on the left, is one of many of these fantastic ‘knot’ heads that are scattered all over Bristol and horribly under-represented in Natural  Adventures. I may sort out a collection of his work from multiple sites. On the right is the left-hand side of a collaborative paint by 3F fino, the other side being by Werm.

3F fino is an incredibly productive member of the LRS crew, many of whom, to be fair, seem to paint their socks off. I don’t know how they all afford the paint. In this piece, 3F fino continues the theme of a character with a head scarf, with some nice folds in the material.

Werm, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2022
Werm, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2022

To the right-hand side is some graffiti writing from Werm (formerly Eman for those who remember). Werm has been concentrating on his writing over the last few months and has been working on two or three concepts that he practices again and again, striving for perfection. If I am honest, I miss his characters, and hope he makes time to treat us to one or two before too long.

4382. L Dub (33)

I do love my walks to the L Dub spot and although it only happens occasionally, both my dog and I love the remoteness of this curious brownfield site, brimming with wildlife, that runs alongside the M5 motorway. These occasional visits are always worthwhile because at the end of the walk is a water treatment pumping station and a pedestrian underpass with plenty of wall space for graffiti/street artists to play with. On my last trip a week or so ago, it would appear that some members of the LRS crew had been having fun.

3F fino, L Dub, Bristol, April 2022
3F fino, L Dub, Bristol, April 2022

This piece is by 3F fino and creates a scene from Fineas and Ferb, a cartoon TV series that my children used to love, and which features Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirt, the villain of the piece. The bubble fill for the lettering is absolutely outstanding and has a sense of evil chemistry about it, and the character has been faithfully recreated. All in all a fabulous piece from 3F fino, one of his best in my opinion, and worth the long walk alone.