Just finished a collaboration piece with THE KRAH. The KRAH is a greek born international street artist. He was recently included in a book on Greek street art (see right image).
See the piece itself below (framed & detail). Details: “All City”, JRM & THE KRAH, 2010, ballpoint + pens + spray paint on card, 110 x 88cm (framed), 75 x 55cm (unframed), for sale (contact for price).
This is undoubtably the first of it’s kind. Combining ballpoint photo-realism and street art style work in spray paints and pens.
I’m responsible for the buildings (done in ballpoint), obviously KRAH’s responsible for the colour madness. The frame is solid oak, and weights the same as a dwarf and we are very proud of it.
We will be working on our next collaboration very soon. If you are in London and would like a viewing, don’t hesitate to ask.
Did an interview with K9 magazine which is a Ukranian magazine that focuses on world art, fashion, and film. One of my biro drawings of Kate Moss was put on the front cover (left, December 2009 edition). The interview was funny though - it hardly focused on my artwork (think they wrote about that themselves) - the first question was “what was your first car and how many woman you lay in it?”. Quite funny. The edition page on K9 website
‘Audrey Kawasaki is a Japanese-American artist, born and raised in Los Angeles, where she currently lives and works. Kawasaki’s work contains contrasting themes of innocence and eroticism, conveying the mysterious intrigue of feminine sensuality. Her sharp imagery is painted with precision onto wooden panels, the natural grain adding warmth to her enigmatic subject matter. The artist’s creative influences include eastern as well as western traditions such as Art Nouveau and Japanese Manga comics’. - from article on designrelated.com
I came across this trailer recently. It is stunning. Very powerful imagery, and sound. Loving the imagination, style, and energy the director put into this.
After a little digging I was disappointed to learn that it;s not actually a trailer for an up-coming film release. Rather, a work of love by it’s director Gary Shore (that apparently took more than 2 years) in order to raise funding for a feature length movie. Quite how the story line works is unclear, that may be left up to writers once a producer is secured…
Just wanted to make a quick post on an artist who’s work I quite like. The French graffiti artist ZEVS specializes in destroying logos and exposing the subversive elements of commercial brands. He was recently arrested in Hong Kong and fined $850,000 for “damage” to an Armani store, but feel this guy could well make it up over time as his profile has been growing for a while. But of course what happens when his work becomes an uber, desireable product? Will he start destroying his own works, that would be interesting.
Check out his website here - he has mimicked Googles web site design & style in his own way
A limited edition of 7 (highest quality Giclee prints) of “JRM 2 The Moss” ballpoint biro drawing (right).
For more info on the original drawing, see my earlier post on it here.
The first of the edition went to auction last weekend. The winning bid was for £3,000. All the money has been donated to The Help for Heroes Charity. (below for image).
The price set for the remaining 6 prints is £800.
The prints are each numbered & signed (see below image) at 60×55cm (just a bit smaller than the original).
Another artist who’s work is pretty awesome. He works in Oils & spray paints. Mixing graphic/abstract imagery & graffiti references with realism of Naval battle scenes and “old war heroes” is something new for sure!
Heard a great story about how heaven and hell expressed though Buddhism is very different to how religions preach heaven and hell. The story is of a Samurai who was sick of hearing mythical descriptions of heaven and hell and wanted to understand what Buddhist monks believed…The young Samurai warrior came across a monk sitting down and asked him:
“Monk. Is there a heaven and a hell? If you know the answer, tell me. If you don’t, don’t waste my time!”.
The monk looked up at him and said “you’re too stupid to understand!”.
The samurai said “Stupid? I’m a samurai warrior!”. The monk replied “You. A samurai? don’t be silly, you’re just a country bumpkin!”.
“That’s twice you’ve insulted me monk!” he rests his hand on his katana handle and sates “one more insult and I will cut you’re head off with this sword in half a second!”.
“With that, stupid rusty blade, you couldn’t cut a slice of bread with that!”. The samurai draws his sword, incensed by the insult of his imaculate sword, squinting his eyes with rage he prepared to swipe with his blade, the monk made eye contact and said:
“Samurai! That’s hell!”.
The samuai then understood at that moment that the anger he felt was what hell was like. He was so moved that he dropped his sword and his eyes welled up and bowed to the monk saying “thank you monk.”. Then the monk said “and that is heaven.” and the samurai understood that the repect, understanding, and compassion he flet was what heaven was like…
// great thing about the story is how the monk literally risked his neck to give the smaurai a lesson on heaven and hell!! (true story, heard story from Ajahn Brahm search on itunes podcasts - great knowledge!).
Just finished a new large biro drawing featuring Kate Moss (process/detail of eye LEFT, finished work BELOW).
I have done two others before of her (here and here) which have received a lot of attention (blogs and email groups such as Daily Candy). The previous two were in fact commissions, this one I decided to do in respect to my own intentions.
I plan to do a limited run of 7 Giclee prints.
Click the image below, then in Flickr, click the All Sizes button above the image to view at large size for detail. Also see below images for You tube video of the making of the drawing.
Below is a photo of the largest biro drawing I’ve ever done (almost 2m wide, 2007, sold). Put your mouse over the image and click twice on the plus button to zoom in, then click and drag the image to explore it.
Just finished a collaboration piece with THE KRAH. The KRAH is a greek born international street artist. He was recently included in a book on Greek street art (see right image).
