FFS – Page 2 – Natural adventures

6300. Sparke Evans Park (102)

Kid Krishna, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, August 2024

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.

6128. Cumberland Basin

Marckinetic, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, May 2024

Marckinetic has been out a fair bit this year, painting alongside his mate Kid Krishna, and he hasn’t yet appeared to run out of inspiration for his FFS designs – this one being a cracking example. There is a real sense of clarity and purpose in this piece.

You have to have some insider knowledge or a great imagination to know that the letters spell FFS. There is a lovely symmetry and flow in this piece created by the curves of the letters, and the deep black shadow gives the whole thing a monolithic appearance. The fills are very nicely worked and I love the cracks in the blue fills. The piece has been nicely finished and is clean and crisp – an excellent and unusual piece of graffiti writing from Marckinetic.

6020. M32 roundabout J3 (575)

Kid Krishna, M32 roundabout, Bristol, April 2024

There are one or two artists that are on fire at the moment, and I am really struggling to keep up with their work, which vexes me a little, because I want to share it all – I’ll need to find a way of sharing moor, possibly through mini galleries or something like that. Kid Krishna, has been going nuts lately, and I must have seven or eight recent pieces in my archive, all waiting to be posted.

This is a bright and colourful piece of graffiti writing spelling out CRIE, which you can see more clearly in this one than in some of Kid Krishna’s other pieces. There is so much intricate work, and a flow that runs through the letters both in design and colour. Kid Krishna’s work always comes across as quite organic, chaotic and unplanned. I don’t know if that is the case or not, but it is also consistently good.

5975. Star and Garter (8)

Kid Krishna and Marckinetic, Star and Garter, Bristol, April 2024

Those boys have been smashing it lately, and by those boys I mean Kid Krishna and Marckinetic. It doesn’t seem to matter what spot I go to, with the exception of Dean Lane, I can usually expect to find something from this pair. And this one in the green adjacent to the Star and Garter in Montpelier/St Paul’s is an absolute beauty.

Kid Krishna, Star and Garter, Bristol, April 2024

Kid Krishna is a prolific artist once he is on a roll, but can be prone to stopping altogether for a while… it can very much be fits and starts from him. This one is a cornucopia piece, so full of wonderful colours and movement, it almost feels like the whole thing is swirling around in front of your eyes. This takes abstract writing to another level and verges on the trippy. The focal point of this organic ball of colour is perfectly offset by the atmospheric cosmic style background. This is truly wonderful work from Kid Krishna.

Marckinetic, Star and Garter, Bristol, April 2024

Next to Kid Krishna is something a little more formulaic, but only by comparison, by Marckinetic that highlights his unusual approach to writing the letters FFS (I think). The characteristic long straight letters are interlocked and slightly juxtaposed with the circular element at the end. His cosmic fills are sensational and like Kid Krishna’s piece the letters contrast perfectly with the background. Long may this purple patch continue.

5955. Cumberland Basin

Marckinetic and Kid Krishna, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, April 2024

Two things to notice immediately about this wonderful collaboration from Marckinetic and Kid Krishna. The first is the diabolical weather – it feels like it has been raining all winter, and is something of a miracle that artists have been painting in quite the frequency that they have and the second is the bright yellow background drawing attention to the pieces.

Marckinetic, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, April 2024

On the left, Marckinetic has painted one of his FFS pieces in his unusual writing style using elongated straight-lined squares and rectangles to form his letters. The letter fill has a clever marbelled effect, and the very deep black drop shadow is filled with an inky night sky with yellow stars and suns. Lovely and original work from Marckinetic

Kid Krishna, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, April 2024

To the right is a rather more densely packed array of shapes and forms making out the letters CRIE. There is loads of colour and activity in the letters, which at times is almost overwhelming, and this is sometimes what you get with his work. Other times he will paint something so simple, he has it all in his armoury. There are lots of FFS tags all over the piece and a little “Four Five Six” to help us along with one of the acronyms for FFS.

5906. Cumberland Basin

Marckinetic and Kid Krishna, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, March 2024

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.

Marckinetic, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, March 2024

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, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, March 2024

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.

5828. M32 roundabout J3 (551)

Marckinetic and Kid Krishna, M32 roundabout, Bristol, February 2024

I am mildly hungover following a wonderful wedding party for our niece, in the extraordinary setting of Farnham Castle on the border of Surrey and Hampshire, and am writing this post sitting in the car, waiting to get home back to Bristol. Fast forward a few hours, and I am now completing this post at home, a little later than usual.

Marckinetic, M32 roundabout, Bristol, February 2024

This is a fabulous collaborative wall from Marckinetic and Kid Krishna, a duo who have started off 2024 in vigorous fashion. Marckinetic’s disguised FFS letters are written in such a unique style and filled with his wonderful ‘cosmic’ patterning, that they simply couldn’t be by any other artist. Creative and wonderfully presented, his work is always a pleasure to see.

Kid Krishna, M32 roundabout, Bristol, February 2024

Kid Krishna has been on fire this year too, after a relatively quiet period, so much so that I am going to have to gather up several of his early year pieces into a single post soon. The colours of this piece broadly match those used by Marckinetic, and create a feast for the eyes, enhanced by being painted on the black background. The letters CRIE are probably there somewhere. This is a fabulous collaborative wall from these unconventional graffiti writers.

5808. St Werburghs tunnel (404)

Kid Krishna, St Werburghs, Bristol, January 2024

Whenever I see the number 404, my heart sinks, thinking of some kind of computer error code. Fortunately no such disappointment with this fine piece from Kid Krishna at the end of the tunnel, it what is proving to be a fruitful and exciting comeback after a few lay months.

I have to take it on trust that the letters spell out CRIE, because, although it is what he usually writes, the letters are very well disguised and obscured. I love the way the greyscale piece draws in a puddle of colour towards the middle, a little reminiscent of those blotting paper colour separations we did at school in science lessons.. Great to have Kid Krishna firing on all cylinders again.

5586. St Werburghs tunnel (390)

Kid Krishna, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2023

After his short absence, Kid Krishna is well and truly back in the groove, although his recent pieces, a handful of them, appear to be reasonably simple in their construction, and perhaps he is returning to first principles before building up into another crescendo.

At the entrance to St Werburghs tunnel, this piece is about as basic as you can get from Kid Krishna. You’ll have to take it from me that it most likely spells CRIE, and the writing was probably painted with small rollers. There is a contemporary message ‘no more wars’ which I expect will chime for most of us. What is happening to our world?

5515. Lower Ashley Road (8)

Kid Krishna, Lower Ashley Road, Bristol, June 2023

There was a period during the spring/early summer, when I could scarcely take a trip out without meeting Kid Krishna. Our biological clocks were in sync and it was great to be able to chew the fat on a regular basis. Then his activity fell off a cliff, on the streets at least, and I imagine that he was spending more time on his studio art creations. This piece is one that languished in my archive, probably because of the poor quality of photograph.

When the sun is behind a wall or hoarding, it is almost impossible to stop the flaring, and to maintain the integrity of the colours and contrast of the artwork, so this is a poor reflection of the piece by Kid Krishna. The letters probably spell out CRIE, but there are other elements woven into the letters. Although there is always a basic structure to Kid Krishna’s pieces, there is also a lot of freedom in the decorations and extra bits. In this case FFS, a crew tag, reads as Fireman From Space.

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