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Bird feeder refilled
who will discover it first
squirrel or song bird?
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by Scooj
Tag: Bristol
Ceus
A gallery of wonderful graffiti writing in Bristol from Spanish artist Ceus.
Instagram: @javiceus
All photographs by Scooj
5910. M32 Spot (183)
This is a pleasurable post to write because it involves one of my favourite walls with one of my favourite groups of artists. The RBF ladies have been a little quiet this month, but this collaboration from Evey, Pekoe and Bnie has laid that to rest pretty well.
Evey continues to smash it each time she paints and her improvement from piece to piece is so gratifying to witness. The letters here are nicely designed and cleanly finished, with good fill transitions and well organised spotty details. She appears to be building her confidence with is an important part of improvement.
In the middle is another Pekoe portrait piece, full of fun and style. The subject has beautifully painted big hair and a rather smart yellow cap or beret. The blue face is rather RBF, if you know what I mean and the whole piece has an interesting dot – dash border. For me though, the hoop earrings steal the show, they are brilliant.
Finally, Bnie never ever disappoints with her beautiful letters. This is classy writing, with stunning fills, a wonderful drop shadow and yellow border complete with drips. The colour selection of pinks and oranges works really well against the green patterned background. It is good to note a small Palestinian flag under the ‘B’, should we forget what is happening in Gaza right now. A wonderful collaboration from this RBF trio.
5909. Brunel Way (264)
I am so far behind with my posts that since this piece by Dibz and Fade was painted, the left hand side has gone, and the right hand side augmented. The more these two work together, the more difficult it becomes to determine who has painted what, and I was lucky enough to meet them yesterday and Fade said that the both contribute to both bits of their work, and that it might be easier to attribute the pieces to both of them, rather than trying to isolate one artist from the other.
Having said all of that, on the left, the writing is the work of Fade, containing plenty of spots from the cheetah. Some great letter shapes and the crossover fade from orange to black is expertly handled.
On the right the letters spell out Dibz, and the character, which I have only just realised as I write this, is the cheetah from the Cheetos snacks brand, hence the words “it’s not easy… being cheesy”. The cheetah and the writing have been incorporated into a full wall Alice in Wonderland piece from the pair, which I hope to be able to stitch together from several visits. There is no stopping this Dibz/Fade juggernaut.
Merlin Bird ID
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Bird song ID app
six birds in sixty seconds
garden paradise.
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by Scooj
I heard some sweet birdsong this morning while I was washing up, so I went into the garden with the app (Merlin Bird ID, which I cannot recommend highly enough) and within a minute I had recorded birdsong from six species:
Great tit, Wren, Wood-pigeon, Carrion crow, Blackcap and Magpie.
Magical.
5908. Greenbank (113)
You might have sensed my excitement a few posts ago with the return of Rozalita (Rozilitaa), and here she is again with another outstanding portrait piece, in the same venue, and again featuring Frida Cahlo, who has come to represent so much about female art, strength and vulnerability.
This time, the portrait is painted in shades of blue and turquoise, which contrasts brilliantly with the four surrounding orange flowers. There is a lot of passion and emotion in Rozalita’s work which works hard to combine people with the natural world. This is another belter, and there is still more to come soon.
5907. Easton Road
Another diversion away from my usual routes took me to Easton Road where I came across this magnificent mural from Caryn Koh, possibly the last thing I might have expected to see in this part of town. What is disappointing is that my son’s work is very close to this mural, and he never thought to let me know it was there.
This is a powerful portrait of a woman superimposed or floating over a pond with beautiful water lilies in it, but look a little closer and you can see that the pond is polluted with plastic bags and bottles and straws, a commentary and observation in the state of our environment. One day it would be nice to think that people, those in power and citizens alike, would learn to value nature and habitats because we live here and now. Who wants to live on a planet with diminishing beauty and wildlife?… let’s watch the hands go up. Nobody. So we must do what we can do to live in a better world, and that doesn’t have to equate to one where financial wealth is the only goal.
Thank you Caryn Koh for using your art to socialise the issue.
Exploit the gap
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Yey, the sky is blue
so make hay while the sun shines
time in the garden
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by Scooj
5906. Cumberland Basin
Marckinetic and Kid Krishna have been having a rather productive spring following what might be described as a reasonably lean winter. This collaborative pair of pieces, sharing a background and elements of a colour palette, is on the long wall at Cumberland Basin.
To the left Marckinetic has written the letters FFS, which would be difficult to know if you didn’t already know, if you know what I mean. His trademark galactic space cloud kind of fill is incorporated in the letters and the semicircle, to great effect. He has also painted a very nice black shadow, in the same mode as often used by Acer One. This is a creative and, as ever, interesting piece.
Kid Krishna, who has recently changed his Instagram account to @name_dropin, has been smashing it of late, and here he is again with one of his CRIE pieces so full of colour and interest in a fairly abstract presentation. I particularly like the ‘canyon’ at the bottom of the piece. I have so many unpublished pieces by Kid Krishna in my archive, and I am trying to figure out how I can post them all. A very nice collaborative wall.
5905. Dean Lane skate park (700)
Collaborations from Fade and Dibz are becoming part of the furniture these days, and it would be easy to slip into complacency or to take their work for granted. What I have to remember is that we are very lucky in Bristol to have two artists of this calibre at the top of their game and painting on at least a weekly basis.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to determine who paints which bits of their collaborations these days, but my guess is that Dibz painted the letters FADE and Fade painted the character piece. It appears that the pair are on a bit of a Dragon Ball frenzy at the moment, as this is the second recent character from the cartoon series to appear in Dean Lane. This time it is the turn of Majin Buu.
The work of Dibz and Fade is pretty much always tight, and rarely, if ever, do they turn out anything that looks scruffy or rushed. This is what they do and they look like they are absolutely loving doing it. The benefactors of their labours are those that seek out and find their work.
Natural adventures 