For a quarter of a century, the 1984 cult film Ghostbusters has delighted kids and adults around the world with its quirky humor and weird but lovable characters. Many of the characters have had fan art created for them, but the green flying ghost, Slimer, has found a new life after death as a kind […]
Ekundayo was born in Hawaii in 1983. When he was still just a little boy, his parents split up and his father smuggled him out of the state. For years, his mother searched in vain for him. When Ekundayo was 11, his father passed away from lung cancer, leaving the young boy to live with […]
Wild Drawing is a street artist who was born in Bali, Indonesia, but is now based in Athens, Greece. His love of painting murals has taken him all over the world, however, to places like Sweden, England, Malta, Germany, France and Finland. Some of his paintings are created in urban settings such as warehouse districts […]
Spanish street artist Duke 103 brings color and movement to the streets of his hometown Valencia in Spain with his large scale street art murals. The subjects of his murals are generally personified animals and funny caricatures of people. His use of perspective and caricature techniques are eye-catching and draw the viewer into the scene […]
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 […]
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 […]
Street artists Path1, Jolt and Ouija team up to create this colorful street art mural of a bird of paradise. The three artists combine their styles and skills to create a mural that has abstract elements, graffiti symbols and realistic imagery. This fun time-lapse video is accompanied by a musical soundtrack by Corey Harris. The […]
Colombian street artist Stinkfish starts his artistic process by either seeking out discarded photos or secretly taking photographs of people he’s never met. He then transforms these portraits into large graffiti murals and completes each artwork with psychedelic patterns and splashes of color. These colorful designs add a spiritual, emotional element to his works, inspiring empathy […]
Pixel Pancho is an Italian street artist who depicts both his own fantasy world and the reality that exists around him with robotic characters. His style transforms organic organisms such as people and animals into mechanised characters, making a statement both about humanity and spirituality. Though his characters appear to have been bolted together from […]
David Choe is an interesting guy. Between 2005 and 2007, he painted two murals for the Facebook headquarters. Because he was afraid of losing yet more money to a gambling habit, Choe asked Facebook’s Sean Parker and Mark Zuckerberg to pay him with shares rather than cash. By 2012, his Facebook shares were worth $200 […]