Pine Cone vs. Feather: Burning Man Mural

I painted a mural this year at Burning Man in center camp. I got into the festival 2 days early to do it and it was pretty much a non-stop process. I pulled an all nighter on the Sunday before the gates opened to the general public so I could start festivaling myself. It is a bigger version of this sketch http://shouldercat.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-planters-ball.html from the Planter's Ball in June. I decided to chose a lighter, more positive, less critical theme than usual to try and be more in the Burning Man spirit and less of an asshole. I think it was a good choice. I guess this is the 3rd mural I've ever done (see 'mural' label at the bottom), and it's the first all just acrylic with paint brush and permanent marker. I went for a very illustrative not so street art style. That is all.

¡Panic!

I'd been wanting to try free hand spray painting for a long time, so when I heard about this abandoned water park near Barcelona and came up with a really simple idea at the same time, I jumped on it. Free hand is hard. I would need a lot of practice to get any good at it. Paint brushes are looking pretty good about now. I was too embarrassed to take any close up pictures but in retrospect I regret it now.



Making Of in Stop Motion:

¡Panic! from shouldercat on Vimeo.

Fishy Business

new thing in union lane

freehand!

context

Yesterday was a really sunny day so I ran away from studio for an hour or two to paint this little picture in union lane. First time ever doing some real time freehand spraying (the oil-rig). Some kiwi fella named city went into my little window frame and pushed me out into new territory. I had to go over some sexy pirate but I left her face hanging in the sky, because I guess I just have a thing for pirates. I feel like the picture I am trying to paint isn't clear enough without dollar dollar bills flying out of Mr. businessman's briefcase but I didn't have any green paint. Maybe I will go and retroactively add them bills.

Miss you friends.

concept sketch

Team X

Finally finished the new thing.
People, be awed.

Team X from tzch on Vimeo.

Alleyway

Here is a little picture of the work in progress on the piece in the alley.

Melbourne Alleyways

The little alleyways in Melbourne are plenty. And you can find all sorts of excitement here.
Theres a range from spiffy ones with cafes and don don shops, and dingy ones full of trash-bins and dumpsters. Somewhere among these is this one:

John from Sydney'sfirst legit mural

Drew
http://drewfunk.com/

putting a tag up high on bamboo stilts

the alley

I'm working on getting some efterblivet TZCH action into this alley.
over and out from Melbo.

Tidal Failure

Upon our reunion with ''el holy'' and consequent invasion of his apartment in Vancouver we attempted our first efterblivet/el holy collaboration piece...and failed miserably with wet feet. The idea was to work with tag graffiti by blocking some of it out into a simple shape. It ended up being a long and complicated process with multiple nights, and ultimate failure due to improper planning. The first day we scouted out a spot on the Vancouver waterfront, we picked a spot that an artist named Steep had graffitied. We hypothesize that he is a 14 year old boy with a shakey hand and low self confidence. The first night we walked around with a huge 10 gallon bucket of house paint and whited out the wall. The second night we painted with black acrylic some details and tried blocking out the graffiti into the cockroach shadow we had in mind, but had to abort mission when the tide rose so high that the paint was getting washed away as fast as we were putting it on.

White out.

Poor little Steep's reaction to us whiting out his work.
"Toy, toy...Why me...F You...Asshole!'' - Steep

Advanced tide avoidence paiting techniques.

The mural was abandoned because efterblivet was leaving town and el holy didn't have the heart to finish it alone. No ''final'' picture was taken.

Exploding Head Hits the Wall

Finally after getting caught by the cops and painting it on a shitty piece of wood, my mural idea got put where it belongs, on a real dead wall. This is in Hollywood in Cambodia, this ´´street bar´´ in Buenos Aires where I´m helping out every once in a while.

Here´s some context and a chair for size. The mural to the right is by a guy named Piraña. Above are some lighter stencils by Valentina, and to the right of Piraña is Valentina and Santiago´s mural that was already posted on the blog.

Here I am before getting started.

stencil o' rama

valentina and i painted this one about a month ago in the roof top of H.I.C., the next day in the same place we met toby for the first time, we shared some beers and a little subway ride.
we promise to do some dirt outdoors when you get back!