Tag: Glasses

6964. Dean Lane skate park (837)

Nice One, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2025
Nice One, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2025

OOF! This is a superb character portrait piece by Nice one, so full of movement and vibrancy. The ‘sketchy’ style that Nice One adopts for his character pieces has an impressionist quality, with what appear to be brush strokes rather than spray paint work, especially around the face and hair. This is a clever technique, and I suspect rather difficult to do.

Nice One, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2025
Nice One, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2025

The character is wearing enormous glasses, with a hint of reflection in them, which is incredibly effective. There is no need for a signature, when the whole piece sits over a huge ‘Nice One font’ ‘N’. A superb piece from an artist whose work is beautifully executed and always interesting.

5089. M32 Spot (159)

Saik0134, M32 Spot, Bristol, February 2023
Saik0134, M32 Spot, Bristol, February 2023

I took these pictures a short while ago, but held back on publishing a post because I couldn’t work out who the artist was. It took me a long time to work it out, but I got there in the end. I’m not sure I have seen his work before in Bristol, but it is clear that Saik0134 is a hugely talented artist, and is welcome back anytime.

Saik0134, M32 Spot, Bristol, February 2023
Saik0134, M32 Spot, Bristol, February 2023

Painted on one of my favourite walls in Bristol, this portrait/writing combo stands out from the crowd. The bright lettering and striking portrait are real attention-grabbers. Even though the piece is not painted on a buffed wall, it doesn’t seem to matter too much, with the piece occupying nearly all the space. The letters spelling SAIK are nicely done in yellow and orange with light blue drop shadow, but for me it is the portrait that is the trump card.

Saik0134, M32 Spot, Bristol, February 2023
Saik0134, M32 Spot, Bristol, February 2023

The eye is drawn immediately to the woman’s glasses, reflecting the light, a clever street art technique, and she is beautifully painted in shades of blue and grey. This is a fabulous portrait piece, and I would love to see more from the artist in Bristol, or anyone else for that matter. This artist is not to be confused with another who used to paint in Bristol called Saik One.

2695. River Avon (3)

Context is very important to our comprehension of the world around us. I passed this piece last week on a walk I rarely take and I knew I recognised the artist, but my brain just couldn’t compute who it was, because I’m not used to seeing his work outside of the places I would normally come across it. It wasn’t until the return leg of the walk that the penny dropped.

Riverside walk 010 10 January 2020_edited

This is of course a fabulous chrome piece by Slakarts that judging from its condition is fairly recent. Although I have been taking pictures of art by Slakarts for a long time, it is only recently that I have started posting them, due to finding out who he was only a few months ago. Ever since, he seems to have been churning out these faces with alarming regularity, which is all rather good really.

Those glasses are spectacleular (see what I did there?) and I imagine look striking from the opposite bank of the river.

New glasses

 

From one pair to three

there’s no need for a neck chain

thank goodness for that.

 

by Scooj

Specs

 

Fast failing eyesight

depressing, irritating,

debilitating.

 

by Scooj

Admission

 

Disappearing words

blurred in the half-light of a

restaurant; need specs.

 

by Scooj