"please choose one if you'd like one"

Today the completion of a whole herd of small Captain Leafheart violations on pocket-size canvas beasts. Fifty of them, all layered with several coats of leaf shapes and 'organic' graff marks, all ready to be left on the street all together with a sign that says something like "please choose one if you'd like one".

Hopefully people will take just one, if indeed anyone feels like taking any of them? Who knows? Maybe they'll just all be left there and taken away by the street cleaner at the end of the night as he or she moans about more bloody street art cluttering up the place and making for more work, day after day, art no one wants left on the street to clear up... 50 of them painted, 25 will be left, this weekend, somewhere in London town, not sure where yet... any ideas?

slightly weathered

Another nice big white, slightly weathered, canvas found on the street today, bare bones of a not very good portrait on it, looks like someone gave up after half an hour... who needs to buy these things? #green #recycle #art

leaf shapes and beatbox lines

Small piece of hardboard that now has several layers of marks and leaf shapes and beatbox lines and drips. First painted on this piece of hardboard and several others the same size, about a year ago, can't see much of the original marks and shapes and colours that were on there - the ever evolving wall of graffiti marks and spray shapes and...

Would a Peter Prendergast look good on a wall?

You kind of maybe have to admire his situationist take on life don't you? And Banksy sticks it all out there without ever being vague about the intentions of his twists and his pop art marketing and yes...

Can't say the image excites me that much but his tongue in cheek does make you smile a little doesn't it?

Would a Peter Prendergast look good on a wall? An outside wall? A Piece of Street art?

Wonder where they all go?

Small cardboard piece, another Italian shoe, not as red as it once was now, once again to be left on the street... Wonder where they all go? More leaf-hearts and the enjoyment of a drip or two... "Would it look nice in a frame?" (as someone else asked this week)

the battle of the daffodil

No blogggggging recently, lots of painting though, and spraying and leaving things on the pavement and daffodil battles and this one, work still in progress this Sunday afternoon (no Resonance FM radio DJing today, London Marathon has taken all the air time this week). Can of now empty red Montana Gold spray paint in the corner for scale, this is on one of the white weathered canvas beasts found abandoned in the bin a few weeks ago... Whole load of pieces on cardboard and hardboard taken to some kind of completion today... Time to put the canvas back out on the street now, see if anyone else picks it up and takes it home... Been battling with this daffodil and all the layers for what seems like weeks now, layers of graffiti marks and leaves over leaves and drips over drips.... the marks of street art and art left on the street but not street art...

ROA @ PURE EVIL / DALE GRIMSHAW @ SIGNAL...

ROA @ PURE EVIL / DALE GRIMSHAW @ SIGNAL, East London, 8th April – Two shows opening within spitting distance of each other over in the giant rabbit infested warren of streets that is Shoreditch, East London. (yeah yeah, Shoreditch, mock if you like, but there is a genuine buzz here, the place is alive, things are going on, being created, it isn’t all about avoiding the idiot culture in the Nailgun Arms). Tonight we have Roa with his first solo London show and Dale Grimshaw just over the road with a return for another show at Signal. Two small shop-sized galleries and both rather alive and busy for their opening nights... this is Organgrinding though, and these no Organgrinding hre, if you want ot read the whole thing then over here on the Organ pages

the fifth Boombox piece

And here's how the fifth Boombox piece, the biggest one yet, "Wilfred 5" looks now, probably finished... unless I pass it again with can in hand...

Easter eggs, found canvas, found art...

Busy productive creative Easter weekend, two found canvas beasts that were left unloved, unused and unwanted in the street now brought back to life. one was white and untouched by paint, new besides the dirt of the street and the scars of weather, that one now has a giant daffodil growing on it. The second an unfinished unwanted seascape, a painting that really hadn't started before the artist gave up on it, and now covered in several layers of spray painted leafhearts and the freedom of just making marks and enjoying the flow of (spray) paint and the way it drips and runs over the canvas and indeed rocks - the original texture of the oil-painted rocks is still there, painted by whoever abandoned this canvas by their rubbish bin... graffiti walls ever changing, old canvas walls ever evolving... and today a beatbox has appeared on the canvas (as if by magic..). work still in progress... more layers yet to appear. Busy bank holidays and no time for Easter eggs and much else (besides breaks for radio shows and getting around town and to studios on time with no tube trains working on Easter Sunday) .

That other piece of art there was found on Sunday morning, actually the people who were throwing it out of their house were happy to see it being taken when they were asked if they minded it being taken from their rubbish. Seems they no longer wanted it and were happy someone else did, old family heirloom that they no longer wanted hanging around their home. Isn't it wonderful, what is it? The print is familiar, pre raphaelite? Frost And Reed of Bristol framed it as a limited edition print in 1909, just looked them up, they seem like some big deal New York/London art dealers now, back then they were smallfish from Bristol. Isn't it great, do love finding things/leaving things on the street, anyone know anything about it? Who is it?

Roa solo show here in London, opening on Thursday, that's exciting... More news, lots of Roa imagery and such on the Organ art pages at www.organart.com. Sleep is need, 24 hour creative times... making art, finding art, growing art, leaving bits of art...