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Two weeks off from work
doing chores around the house
get me back to work.
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by Scooj
Tag: UK
6294. Upfest 2024 (49)
A few weeks after Ejits painted this piece for Upfest, I was fortunate enough to meet her while she was painting a larger wall at the Cheltenham Paint Festival. She told me a little bit about her style and that she uses brushes for her work, because although she uses spray paint, her can control is not up to it for fine detail.
This is the second farting character piece I have posted in a matter of days, the other one was by Pl8o, this one however is a farting unicorn, farting rainbows, as they do. I have a feeling that Beep Monkey painted a rainbow-farting unicorn a few years ago. Obviously it is a thing. Ejits has painted this beautifully over a challenging wall with plenty of different textures to contend with. Neat, tidy, fun and cute… nice work all round.
6293. Upfest 2024 (48)
Being a young parent can be tough for anyone, but Billy and Merny managed admirably while Billy was painting this wonderful mural at Upfest this year. Merny was on dad duty around the corner selling merchandise, allowing mum to complete her work. Merny completed his piece a few days later.
Billy has painted a repeating puffin mural on this car park wall, which is difficult to photograph without obstructions (cars). Each puffin has a different and uplifting symbol in its middle, and each is painted in a different colour palette. A really nice piece adjacent to a school, so age appropriate too. Great work from Billy.
6292. Upfest 2024 (47)
Angus is a Bristol street artist who has been delighting locals and visitors alike for years and is an ever-present at each Upfest festival. He is an artist who is constantly looking for the next idea, having moved on from spray painting to mosaics, which he has now refined using small building blocks like Lego. Note to self… need to do an Angus gallery.
This piece, on a wall that Angus has decorated before, is a retro arcade game piece, and he has replaced Nintendo logo with his name in the same style. The blocky nature of the building blocks gives the impression that the piece is pixelated, just like the games looked in the early days. Brilliant stuff from Angus.
6291. Upfest 2024 (46)
One of the first pieces I saw being painted at Upfest this year was this wonderful, relaxing piece by Hannah Adamaszek. As is usually the case, she was accompanied by her friend and artist Stephen Quick, who was making use of his height to help out with some of the harder-to-reach parts of the mural.
Hannah Adamaszek manages to create a great sense of calm and wellbeing in her pieces, which usually feature people in relaxed poses or situations. She has done an outstanding job of capturing the movement and colours of the water in which the subject is swimming.
I think I have seen one of her pieces in Leake Street tunnel, otherwise I have only seen her Upfest and Tobacco Factory pieces, but they are enough to satisfy my appetite for her work. Great mural.
6290. L Dub (55)
Dun Sum is an artist I’d love to see more of in Central Bristol, but he tends to stick to his home territory of Lawrence Weston. Whether it is graffiti writing or his fantasy character pieces, he brings an originality which is hard to better.
This extraordinary piece of writing shimmers as if it were molten metal… an incredible effect. The letters spell out Dun Sum and are filled expertly. To me, this looks like the graffiti version of the Terminator character who can morph from solid to liquid. The downside to painting in L Dub is that footfall is incredibly light, and so few people will ever get to see this outstanding work.
6289. Muriel Alleyway (6)
Bristol’s smallest street art festival took place at the end of July, organised by Rtiiika, in Muriel Alleyway, Brislington. This is an alleyway which has a couple of dozen garages backed onto it as well as garden back walls, which make fabulous canvasses for street art and murals. The spot has has a few pieces painted along it in a fairly sporadic fashion, but this event ensured that many of the available well/garage spaces were painted. Most of the artists were part of the Bristol Mural Collective, including Tanith Gould, who has painted this exact wall previously.
I love Tanith Gould’s illustrative style, which includes, I guess, quite a lot of symbolism and meaning. She has virtually replicated the hands that were here before, but the surrounding decoration is rather different. There is something very calming about the piece, which I really like. Below is her earlier piece from July 2021, for comparison.
Peggy
A gallery of amazing floral murals from the Bristol-based street artist and tattoo artist Peggy.
Instagram: @misspeggybrown
Website: misspeggybrown.com
all photographs by Scooj
6288. Lower Ashley Road (9)
It is rare for new hoardings to remain unpainted or untagged in Bristol, and no sooner had these gone up around a new development site, than they were decorated with several throw ups including this fine anti-style graffiti writing and character combination piece by Taboo.
Taboo has been reasonably quiet lately, so this piece came as a very welcome surprise. As you can see it is a birthday tribute piece to Ffion, and includes a cute portrait of Simba from the Lion King Disney film. The writing, which is really on-point, spells out TABOO, of which the lion cub makes up the first ‘O’. I love the pink inside the second ‘O’, adding just another layer of interest.
6287. M32 roundabout J3 (615)
Stivs is something of an enigma, you never really know quite what you are going to see from him next. He is both an accomplished portrait and scene artist, as well as an exceptional calligraffiti writer. In this piece, he has created a wonderful cartoon book style portrait.
I took this photograph on my second trip to the wall, because the sun wasn’t quite right on my first visit. Unfortunately, by the time I returned, YSAE and Solar (one of them) had tagged it. At least they were respectful enough not to go over the portrait itself. The piece is called (I presume) ‘moody boys start wars’.
The artwork itself is exceptional, and it is one of the best renditions of comic-book style artistry I have seen, and at scale too. I have included a photograph I took on my first visit, which has no tags, but bright vertical strips of light where the sun has caught the wall and corresponding shadows. Phenomenal stuff from Stivs.
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