re: street legal.....

hi lovers,

here's some street art that myself and KAST painted recently at a local high school in Kamloops, BC. after several years of doing FREE workshops in high schools, it feels good to finally get somewhere. although now, there's plenty of competition whereas there once none before. we started a good thing, and now others are getting on the workshop train. it's crazy. we're trying to show people that street art is vibrant, colourful, a safe means of self-expression, not gang related, not vandalism if done legally and properly. 

we did this in about an hour and a half. when we get going we can crush it out quickly.

enjoy,

cb

as you can see, we start with 6 sheets of plywood

at 4 x 8 feet in size.

they were from an art show we had at Arnica Artist Run Centre

we never buffed the wood, we just painted over them

at this time of year, buffing a wall means waiting over an hour

for the paint to dry before you can start painting.

I did two new fun characters and KAST wrote

some fresh new letters.

literally it is an explosion of colour.

Juxtaposed against the bland wall

of the high school, it just leaps out

adding much needed colour and life.

re: new art....

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i saw some street art i thought you'd dig.

can't believe it snowed yet again today. argh.

anyways, i hope all is well in your world,

until next time,


cb

a new crew in town, "no public art."

until next time,

cb

re: march madness.....

hello friends, foe, fans and lovers,

hope all is well with you in this new year, life is good, i've now joined the ranks of the teetotalers, and it's been a few weeks now and i feel healthy and great. if anyone can get carried away with a good time, it's me! haha. so because i've been sick for so long, i put two and two together and realized, if i cleaned up my act, i'd get better, and it's working. problem solved. in fact, i feel quite normal, not super human and crazed,  just regular art guy doing his thing.

over the years, i've been on the road back and forth across the country, i realized early on, it's so boring without good friends. not that i haven't made GREAT friends in my travels, but sometimes, you see your mates struggling for a break, and you offer that olive branch and for whatever reason, they just don't take it. it's heartbreaking, but you gotta just let it go and soldier on, so it was a nice surprise that a buddy of mine is ready to step up and take on the art world. we had coffee recently, and he said he appreciated the fact i tried so diligently to get him to hit the road, but he wasn't ready he said, and didn't have his shit together. i laughed and said i never did either, but destiny flings you into the chaos sometimes, and you just gotta go with it. anyways, he's ready for it, and i can't wait until good things start happening for him. you can't force people into things, they've got to do it themselves. if they make mistakes and crash and burn, that's part of the process and all you can hope is they get back up and try again. success or so called "success" does not come without it's trials and tribulations, but it's great to have a little victory now and then to keep you hungry.

so, okay, i lied about not feeling super great, i do, and have more energy and clear thoughts than i've had in ages, and i'm out and about doing street art, which is great to get fresh air, and see what others are doing on the walls in this community. i can't wait to hit the road and do it elsewhere. traveling is so good for the soul, at least mine, if i am still for too long, i start to go crazy. it's funny once you get into graffiti, you start looking at walls differently, you start looking at the lines of a wall piece differently, and when you start experimenting with different paints, depending on your budget, it really open your eyes. my appreciation for street art is off the charts right now, because it's winter time here in kamloops, and people are still hitting walls! it's fcuking cold out! haha!

not only that, there's a $500 fine if you get caught, which to me, is a lot of paint money, and because Kamloops has criminalized graffiti, it's been pushed into dangerous places, just like the drug trade. obviously, the war on drugs hasn't won anyone any victories, so why do the same with graffiti? a lot of great graffiti is being done in horribly and dangerously accessible places, which pisses me off, because some kids will get or killed just to do some street art.

you can't bottle or explain that rush of doing graffiti, you just have to do it, and experience it for yourself.

well lovers, i gotta go, my birthday is on the 27, and i've got to post at least 17 times this month, so i've got a lot of art to make.

until next time,


cb

sleepy kamloops.

my daughter being cute

well, one of my daughters.

i know who did this graffiti! 

the little bugger! 

i love bubble style letters.

sweet letters!

i like ironlak now

it's vibrant and looks sharp

plus, it comes with a fat cap

and 2 skinny caps!
dope!

 crying emo ghost.

best graffiti i've seen in a while.

i actually was here and pissed on custer's grave

i couldn't help myself, i'm native.

bastard deserved it.

re: little monsters.....

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i'm going to be posting a monster a day for 30 days. part of my new thing, as well as some images from the graffiti workshops, and other things going on in my life.

it's busy, not too busy, and still fun.

hope all is well in your world

and to start things off right, here's a disney-fied version of slipknot's song 'wait and bleed.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG6G4XBnvLQ&feature=related

and here's my little monster for the day.

which really demonstrate, how little i've actually played with photoshop.

i need to re-evaluate things.

until next time lovers,

cb