I Smell Paint: Graffiti and Street Art

Moving Street Art- Boone NC

2011-11-22T12:25:00.000-08:00

This is Alice, another painted up Volvo in NC. I posted one I found in Raleigh in October, which was inspired by the above car. Apparently Alice has seen better days and will be towed away soon. RIP. Thanks to Abbi for sending in the pics.

Moving Van Street Art- Raleigh NC

2011-11-16T22:31:00.000-08:00

Raleigh Free Expression Tunnel NCSU

2011-11-09T22:29:00.000-08:00

Raleigh Stencils Fall 2011

2011-11-04T22:25:00.000-07:00

Moving Street Art- Raleigh

2011-10-31T22:35:00.000-07:00

pacman on the bumper. Painted up Volvo . . .

Raleigh Sketch Artist

2011-10-31T22:24:00.000-07:00

These weren't paint, but you I can smell markers too. The second one is fuzzy (I was in a sketchy place), but was a piece worth posting.

Bouncing Ball Stencils- Raleigh 2011

2011-10-31T22:21:00.000-07:00

This dude was prolific. There was a larger piece that I saw while riding a bus that I didn't get a chance to take a photo of.

Kansas City Mural behind a Liquor Store

2011-09-02T16:50:00.000-07:00

Whats another name for Pirate Treasure (stencil) ?

2011-08-14T23:17:00.000-07:00

Well, I think it's Booty . . .

Train Tags

2011-08-14T23:12:00.000-07:00

Stencils- Lawrence KS

2011-08-14T23:10:00.000-07:00

Lawrence KS Tags- July 2011

2011-07-21T13:28:00.000-07:00

"The Someday Famous"

Lawrence KS Stencils

2011-07-21T13:23:00.000-07:00

Trains

2011-07-04T16:01:00.000-07:00

Stencils- Lawrence KS

2011-07-04T15:58:00.000-07:00

Lawrence Graffiti- Spring 2011

2011-04-19T07:48:00.000-07:00

Train Tags April 2011- Day Two- Lawrence Kansas

2011-04-15T13:08:00.000-07:00

Train Tags April 2011- Lawrence Kansas

2011-04-12T14:35:00.000-07:00

Train Paint in February

2011-02-20T20:25:00.000-08:00

The land finally thawed a tad, so I went looking for train paint. Location is Lawrence KS.

Gandhi Portrait- Cabbagetown ATL

2010-12-07T05:41:00.000-08:00

Cabbagetown ATL- Tags Set 02

2010-12-03T05:38:00.000-08:00

Cabbagetown ATL- Tags Set 01

2010-12-01T07:37:00.000-08:00

Cabbagetown ATL- Zombie Wall Graffiti and Tags

2010-11-23T13:18:00.000-08:00

Cabbagetown ATL- Stencils

2010-11-17T11:59:00.000-08:00

Cabbagetown Mural

2010-11-15T14:30:00.000-08:00

Cabbagetown ATL Graffiti- Aliens

2010-11-09T10:01:00.000-08:00

Atlanta Graffiti- Cabbagetown Tunnel- Mouse and Faces

2010-11-08T11:53:00.000-08:00

I hit the dirty South this week and did the dirty bird in ATL for a few days. The southside patch of turf called "Cabbagetown" had a good paint covered tunnel and and a about a mile of fence covered in tags. It was like heaven- bars with Yuengling, sweet tea, the sweetwater brews, and people talkin slow like me. Local of the tunnel can be found here.

Stencils- Lawrence Kansas

2010-10-07T09:07:00.000-07:00

I have seen this design before on the bottom photo, but it was black. Shout out to the Lawrence Stencil Crews, get that skrilla.

Murals On the Side of a Recyling Building

2010-09-30T11:21:00.000-07:00

Fireworks Stencil- Lawrence Kansas

2010-09-14T15:31:00.001-07:00

Mona Lisa with a Grenade Launcher

2010-09-03T14:13:00.000-07:00

Jesus Mural- Guatemala

2010-08-31T14:19:00.000-07:00

Colorful Mural- San Juan de la Laguna- Guatemala

2010-08-27T14:08:00.000-07:00

San Juan de la Laguna Mural- Guatemala

2010-08-25T14:06:00.000-07:00

Panajachel Guatemala Hummingbird

2010-08-25T14:03:00.000-07:00

PBR Mural-

2010-08-02T08:00:00.000-07:00

No shit, painters were painting the front of this building. When I was taking pictures of the mural, I talked with the building owner who had just leased the building to a business. The painters painted over this mural about an hour after I took these pictures. RIP.

Brick Wall KC Tags- One Wall

2010-07-30T07:49:00.000-07:00

Tags in Kansas City

2010-07-28T10:08:00.000-07:00

Stencils- Kansas City

2010-07-26T08:12:00.000-07:00

Fish Tags- Kansas City

2010-07-24T07:46:00.000-07:00

Cesar Chavez Mural- Kansas City

2010-07-23T09:08:00.001-07:00

Avenida Cesar E Chavez- Kansas City

2010-07-23T09:08:00.000-07:00

I found these on Avenida Cesar E Chavez, and they

are a fading legal mural group. Unlike most of the legal murals in the towns I have sniffed paint in, these have a very little of the stereotypical "graffiti" style and instead have a traditional feel to them. Below are the credits from this project.

Ali- Peace in the Hood

2010-07-21T08:25:00.000-07:00

Under the Bridge- Downtown KC- Westbound

2010-07-20T07:31:00.000-07:00

Under The Bridge- Downtown KC- Eastbound

2010-07-20T07:29:00.000-07:00

J. Manco- Westside Kansas City

2010-07-15T08:20:00.000-07:00

I found these two faces and both had the signuture of J. Manco. I really like these two girls faces and dude/chick's style.

Westside Pride- Kansas City

2010-07-15T08:16:00.000-07:00

Holy! Westside Pride- Kansas City

2010-07-15T08:14:00.000-07:00

Guatemala Paint

2010-07-13T15:23:00.000-07:00

My wife is spending the summer in Guatemala and she stumbled upon some stencils and a mural in Chiq'a'l. In some places in the world, Che isn't a hipster symbol of cool but an actual revolutionary. Click here to see the whole gallery.

18th St Jazz/Blues Mural Kansas City MO

2010-07-11T19:04:00.000-07:00

Second Mural On Troost Kansas City MO

2010-07-11T18:59:00.000-07:00

First Mural On Troost Kansas City MO

2010-07-11T18:55:00.000-07:00

42nd Street Mural Project- Kansas City Kansas

2010-06-29T10:29:00.000-07:00

On the corner of 42nd Street and Mission Road, there is a mural project going on. Here and Here will take you to some more info on the project. It is so great to see a community support a paint project such as this. This is still a work in process so
I plan on checking in every couple of months and doing an update. Below are the pieces that appeared to be mostly done. Above are some close ups of various pieces.

Tags through Chainlink, KCK

2010-06-29T10:23:00.000-07:00

This is somewhere on Southwest Blvd in KC Kansas near I-35.

Trains

2010-06-02T07:33:00.000-07:00

One heading East, and one heading West.

Dalai Lama Stencils

2010-05-28T11:29:00.000-07:00

Trains

2010-05-28T11:27:00.000-07:00

Girls Faces in Paint- Southwest Blvd KC

2010-05-14T09:06:00.000-07:00

I found these all one one wall in the Southwest Boulevard area, Kansas City, KS. Feminine represent.

Fab Crew Tag KC

2010-05-14T08:37:00.000-07:00

Trains in Kansas

2010-04-28T10:16:00.000-07:00

Margaret Kilgallen, Graffiti, Art 21, Folk Art

2010-04-18T19:01:00.000-07:00

This excerpt from the PBS Art 21 Series Episode "Places" had a highlight on Margaret Kilgallen and the influence of graffiti and other hand painted folk art on her installation work. It had an interesting part on trains and the use of them as a painters medium. Graffiti is one the worlds great folk arts.

Back Side Mural Hotness in KC

2010-04-13T10:31:00.000-07:00

and now for the back side of the building in the below post.

Super Dope KC Mural

2010-04-13T10:28:00.000-07:00

Found near the West Bottoms. This was a on the front side of the building, and the next post above is on the back side. While it isn't illegally done, it is tha hottness.

Asheville NC Tags

2010-04-13T10:25:00.000-07:00

I am from Asheville NC, and I have to go back there on the regular for holidays, deaths, weddings, and general family time. When I go back now, I start to smell paint. These were under a bridge right near my parents house on the South End of town near the Skyland Fire Department.

Trains

2010-04-13T10:21:00.000-07:00

Trains

2010-03-29T16:11:00.000-07:00

All of this off of one train . . .

Stencils- Lawrence Kansas

2010-03-29T11:10:00.000-07:00

Vango Car Paint

2010-03-29T11:06:00.000-07:00

Wichita Street Murals

2010-03-15T16:48:00.000-07:00

These don't fall under graffiti, but are examples of street art I found on a recent trip to Wichita Kansas. The Day of the Dead mural was off the chain (and ironically enough was painted to prevent graffiti from being painted on the side). It was located on 2604 N Arkansas on the wall of Betty's Too Laundromat.

Trains

2010-02-28T14:15:00.000-08:00

KC is a huge center of the rail industry, so many trains pass through north of Lawrence. I took a stroll up there on after a conversation with someone who said graffiti on trains was cool because it was like watching a slideshow of paint from everywhere. I saw two trains pass by on my stroll today, and I got a few good tags. Props to the train painters, those boys (and girls) gotta work quick and get out, in addition to the dangers of playing around trains.

A shout out to the Graffiit Art on Trains blog for the inspiration. It sure beats walking around looking for paint on walls.

Bending Eiffel Tower Stencil

2010-02-28T14:11:00.000-08:00

This was found outside of the Foreign Language building at KU (Wescoe Hall, aka the beach)

B-52 Street Art, Western Kansas

2010-02-21T09:26:00.000-08:00

This was taken somewhere in Kansas, between a couple of hours and a few hours west by car of Wichita. Needless to say that I was not going to find much urban (paint or otherwise) out in these parts. It falls under street art and was taken from a car at a stop light.

King of Pop Wall

2010-01-25T12:59:00.000-08:00

I found this Mural off of Troost Ave in KC. It is a tribute to Michael Jackson and was huge (easily 12 feet tall and 20 feet wide. This is tha hotness. When I was 5, I wanted to be the Billy Jean version of MJ (aka the bad ass who denies the baby is his).

Da Force

2010-01-20T14:13:00.000-08:00

This is a killer Star Wars Wall, check out R2D2 as a spray can. This is tha hotness.

Feminine in KC

2010-01-20T14:07:00.000-08:00

I found three different "feminine" works on three different walls in KC the other day. The pieces are very distinctive and the artists style is evident in all three (I didn't put together that these were the same artist until I cropped the photos down).

Huge Mural at the Crossroads in KC

2010-01-20T12:54:00.000-08:00

Found this wall right outside a music venue south of downtown KC. Funny looking beings, but nicely done. Kinda like Ren and Stimpy yall.

Kansas City Tags- Jan. 2010

2010-01-20T12:49:00.001-08:00

There has been snow on the ground for almost a month now, but the temp finally got over freezing, so I hit the streets with my camera.

Town Of Kansas Mural

2010-01-20T11:34:00.000-08:00

This is right of I-70 in downtown KC. It looks as if it was done legally, but it is huge. And it has cows in it.

El Nino de la pinturas de Granada Television

2010-01-11T07:17:00.000-08:00

I currently live in the midwest, and it is cold right now. So cold, paint won't even stick to the walls. If paint wont stick on the walls, then I ain't going to go out and look for it (the high temp last friday was like 5 degrees). So, here is a little television to make you more informed on El Nino of Granada Spain. Granada was one of the best Spanish towns for paint and graffiti. Below are some youtube videos and links to this wonderful town's artwork, and some back ground on El Nino (I have personally seen his work, or at least his apprentices work, and it is amazing).

Also note, if you are ever is Southern Spain, make sure you go here. If you don't go anywhere else in the south of Spain, go here (yeah, you can by-pass Sevilla, Grananda has a beauty unseen). The cross culture mixing of Western and Moorish society is evident in the food, the people, and even the paint of this town.

This guy, Henry Barfoot-Saunt, wrote a dissertation and made a film/slide show/reading of it.

Wichita Art Wall

2009-11-24T15:01:00.000-08:00

Right on Douglas I think . . .

Wichita KS Tags

2009-11-24T14:49:00.000-08:00

Most of these were found under a cool black top path that runs right under the interstate close to Wichita's Old Town.

San Antonio- Stencils

2009-11-03T13:07:00.000-08:00

San Antonio- Cleaning up the Streets

2009-11-03T12:58:00.000-08:00

I hit the Mexican Manhattan in the first of Oct 2009. 7th biggest city in the states should have dope paint, but it appears the city is trying to clean up the city, so most of the paint I found were white washes over previous work (I found tons of these above). Below are some of the none covered up pieces, nothing great, but after 3 days of hunting, that was all I found.

Bunnies and Dragon

2009-10-21T08:28:00.000-07:00

Around the Broadway and 39th area in KC. Bunnies and Dragons.

Kool Aid

2009-10-09T06:48:00.000-07:00

now it is a party

More KC around 39th and Broadway

2009-09-25T09:54:00.000-07:00

These are from two different sides of one building.

Rhino

2009-09-17T08:43:00.001-07:00

From down an alley and over a fence around Broadway and 40th in KC.

KC tagz

2009-09-17T08:38:00.000-07:00

These are from around the 40th and Broadway Area

Lawrence Roof-Top Paint

2009-09-14T14:05:00.000-07:00

I was sitting in a coffee/pastry joint in Lawrence and while spacing off, I see paint on top of a building a few blocks over. I am afraid of heights, and the fuzz, so I had to take this from a distance.

T-Rex, a Fox, and a Hawk

2009-07-30T13:48:00.000-07:00

Summertime in Lawrence KS, with the third fox paint I have found in the town, but this one had a T- Rex

The wife went to Brazil and took some paint photos for me

2009-07-01T06:47:00.000-07:00

My wife went to Rio and took some random pics of graffiti that she saw and was able to take photos of with out feeling in danger. Apparently, Rio is a fairly dangerous place. She said that most of the pieces that she saw were way better than these, but she didn't want her camera to get jacked.

Kansas City- Downtown near I-70

2009-06-25T08:53:00.000-07:00

I always watch my bridges and overpasses

Wichita ICT Fest

2009-06-16T07:37:00.001-07:00

I went to Wichita for the first time this weekend to see some bands at ICT Fest. I was walking around the old town in the downtown area with the people I went down with, and I stumbled upon this wall. This was taken on Douglas I think, near a bar called "The Anchor" at a tatoo joint named "The Electric Chair"

Note- This post originally incorrectly credited these paint splatters to Chris Trenary, (sometimes the word on the street ain't right) and it has since been corrected. But, if you are in the Wichita area, stop by some of the local art venues around town and check out some of his works on exhibit.

Near I-35 in KC, Da Warehouse DIstrict

2009-06-05T11:32:00.001-07:00

This was the first major wall that I had the opportunity to take pictures of in KC. Some pretty good tags and such here, but I would have loved to seen the previous layer of paint before these were done.

Random building on 43st in KC

2009-06-05T11:27:00.000-07:00

Found on the side of a building going west on 43rd after it turns into something else (maybe Westport). Had a strange oriental type of feel to it . . .

The East Lawernce Waltz Street Mural

2009-05-21T14:49:00.000-07:00

Mad Props to David Loewenstein(his site is here) for leading this project, on the east side. It is very moving and detailed, and I took these pictures on a warm spring morning.

Paint on a Car Counts as Street Art

2009-05-21T14:45:00.001-07:00

This is one of the cars used by Van Go Mobile Arts Inc in East Lawrence. It even had zebra print seats.

Edgar Mueller and Manfred Stader

2009-05-12T10:29:00.000-07:00

StreetpaintingManfred http://www.3d-street-art.com/
link to Edgar http://www.metanamorph.com/
link to Gabriel Rios http://www.gabrielrios.be/
link to the lyrics of broad day light http://www.lyricsbox.com/gabriel-rios

I guess I smell chalk now . . .

Banksy- self-described "art terrorist"

2009-05-12T10:22:00.000-07:00

My paint smelling life has been going through withdraws, so when I get the paint shakes, I check out Banksy on youtube. youtube is like NyQuil for a drunk

Link to Banksy's web-internets and such

P.S.- I didn't listen to the music on these youtube video's, so if they are not up to par with the art this art terrorist does, find the youtube video creator and make fun of them on the comments page.

First Worthwhile Spotting in Lawrence

2009-05-03T17:36:00.000-07:00

Having a car drastically reduces the number of nooks and crannies I get to explore since I have been back state side. Most of the the good "big city" paint is about and 45 minutes from where I live, so I don't get to stumble across street masterpieces in the Midwest. But, as I do stumble upon it, I will post it, like this stencil.