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Soika or Sicko? One Street Artist’s Fascination with Discomfort

Soika the Vomiter, also known as Soika John McVomter, is a Filipino who is based in Cebu. While Cebu might seem like a tropical paradise to outsiders, there are many locals who know only too well that beneath the touristy veneer lie a lot of slum areas. And in these slum areas… Art. Street art […]

Meet Four Fantastic Japanese Graffiti Artists

Director Shinsuke Tatsukawa introduces us to four influential Japanese street artists; ESOW, AIKO, and the duo KAMI & SASU (aka HITOTZUKI). Each of the artists have their own individual design style, based on the emotions that they would like to express to the world. For some of the graffiti artists, it’s not about communicating with people through their […]

Watch Bordalo II Turn Junk into a Street Art Chameleon

Portuguese street artist Bordalo II has moved out of the realm of 2D street art and into the world of 3D sculptural graffiti. He recycles the unwanted remnants of human activity, ie, the rubbish that people discard from their homes and workplaces. Each piece of junk that finds its way into Bordalo’s art has its […]

Forget Paint. Street Artist Vhils uses EXPLOSIVES to Create his Graffiti.

While most street artists rely on spray paint, markers, stencils and paper and paste to create their graffiti art, Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto (aka Vhils) uses explosives to create his murals. By setting his incendiary devices in specific places on a wall, Vhils is able to blow away portions of the wall to leave behind […]

Watch Naples become a Biblical City Thanks to Street Artist Zilda

The Italian city of Naples (Napoli in Italian) comes under artistic attack when a single paste-up artist papers the streets with his biblical art. The beginning of the video shows the artist at work in his studio, creating paste-up graffiti pieces with oil paint on paper. We later see Zilda wandering the city choosing sites […]

Watch Street Artist Nychos Paint a Gruesome Wall Mural

Austrian artist Nychos specializes in cheerfully macabre paintings of dissected animals and people. His fascination with anatomy began at a young age; he was raised in a hunting family who introduced him to every aspect of hunting; from stalking and killing an animal to butchering the carcass and treating the remains. The colors, textures and […]

Ashop street artists celebrate the completion of their large scale mural of the Madonna in Montreal

It Took 500 Cans of Spray Paint to Create this Magnificent Madonna Mural

Five talented Canadian street artists used 500 cans of spray paint over 16 days to create a large-scale wall mural of the Madonna. They drew inspiration for the style of the piece from the works of Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha, and incorporated symbols of Montreal’s history into the mural. One of these symbols is […]

Graffiti Artist Blu Animates Evolution on the Streets

Blu is an Italian street artist who creates animated graffiti. He uses a method called stop frame animation, also known as stop motion animation, to create videos of graffiti that creeps, crawls, swims and flies. The animation method is time-consuming. The animator must move an object, or draw a new “frame” and take a picture […]

This is the Kind of Team Work You Get when Two Street Artists get Married

French street and gallery artists Supakitch and Koralie have a unique collaborative style; they work together not just to create indoor and outdoor wall murals, but they also work together to build a life as a married couple. When proposing to Koralie, Supakitch chose a proposal method that was relevant to them both; he created […]

Street Artist Aryz Shows his Methods and Techniques in this Time Lapse Video

Spanish graffiti artist Aryz reveals his painting methods in this video that shows him creating an indoor commissioned mural for a pizzeria. His tools include aerosol paint and paint brushes. He sprays the aerosol paint into caps which he then uses as a portable palette to dip his brush in as he works; creating fine […]