Installation in Melbourne

Yes! It's me eating a giant wang!

I amassed a large crew

Managed to play some accordion on the way

The old businessman again

Making the money

Zero Dollars

The next day it was gone

¡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.

Heads Will Roll

Wind Up Birds

Finally! Some street art! Even decided to give stencils a second chance. I did a warm up run here in Barcelona, Montreal styles (idea, cut out and spray all in the same night) with my trusty companion, Sparky. Turns out it's more important to look out for sketchy night wanderers than the police.

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

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.

Expulsion

POST 100!!!

My most successful screen print to date. 5 layers, 3 stencils, magical gloss.
Some of the detail created by the gloss is lost in the scan. It's much more magical in hard copy.

The Drawwwwing

This is my first ever digital print with a two layer screen print on top. I'm a little disappointed by the results cuz the colours were dulled by the printer. It also looks way better live than in this picture.



Here's the original paintings that I scanned. It's so much brighter than the print, not to mention fluorecent red is the best colour ever. I collaged it from its constituent parts.

Window Pain

This was my much anticipated holiday project that met a sad sad end. It fell down in my hallway where I had temporarily placed it and shattered in one corner. I was going to work on it more, I was thinking about adding in some fluorescent spray paint, but now I feel a little sad and discouraged.

Spacemonkey animation on Wooster!

The Spaceman animation made it onto Wooster!

Thanks wooster.

PS. Do not go spray painting with Chewy

Spaceman is Back

What with everyone stressing out about exams and school all around me,

I have decided to finish that project I started last December in Berlin.

I was going to make 26 Spacemen, but I only got to 18. So here they are:

Space man 19 (the reincarnation!)

http://www.vimeo.com/7824613

SpacemanNiko20 from ParticleWave on Vimeo.

Final piece on the wall:


Spaceman 20
6 more to go.

Permafrozen Heart

Results.back

After a long hiatus I finally slapped together a little stencil/drip spray paint number on a half finished window that was sitting around my place.

It felt good.front

I'm going to donate it 52 McCaul where they are having a 20$ show (from many local artists) on Friday evening. Proceeds are going to WellandGood so they can run this awesome space for what I would call non-elitist art.
Friday evening!
52 McCaul
Be there.

Gaia in the Desert

I just got back from Burning Man, and the above is what I shared with the insane weirdos that inhabit that god forsaken, sun baked, and wind ravaged piece of earth. The theme of the festival was evolution. My take on that was to mimic the evolution of poster layering as seen on our city streets. I also meant Gaia to be holding a pictorial representation of evolution in each one of her hands. Unfortunately, booze, the sun, and shiny things all worked to distract me from completing the piece. I brought it home with me though, so sometime soon it'll make another appearance in a new incarnation.

HeartWorm vs HeartRoach

The last cube deals with one of those mysteries that nobody seems to be able to figure out. The achy, breaky heart. I imagined there being a larva in your heart and it grows and develops slowly as you fall in love and get your heart broken over and over again. I mean there is no single meaning to life, so life is just a process like the metamorphosis of this weird heart bug, the germination of that idea or the hatchling guy. So, there you go (Toby).

The Love/Pain Cube

The Metamorphosis

An idea sprouts

Cube the second. This is how I imagine an idea springing forth in the brain. The brain is so complex, the idea travels through your mind on a discombobulated path, turning around memories, positive and negative experiences, fueling on all of them to create the conclusive idea, which is only formulated once it has been released out of your mind (usually through your mouth or some action), or in this case a lotus.

The idea cube


The Process

The Chicken & the Egg

Lately I have gotten really really obsessed with the passage of time, and been preoccupied with a lot of stupid deep questions, which probably means I have been spending way too much time in my head. So I decided to do 3 cube paintings, showing an idea progressing, transformation of emotions and flow of time and space . It started out being my take on some of the main human forces in life or something. Anyways, Toby , you've kinda been kicking my ass on the blog ( you hobo), so I decided to post one of these cubes ASAP. They've been taking forever, painting and drying all 6 sides, but I really got stuck on the whole 3D thing.
So, Check it:

The cube that finally answers the eternal question of that chick and the egg

The Progression

Gypsy Children meet Gummo

Disintegrating Zebra-Person