Outline For man like Rmer, CVK…

Some new work at Trackside galleys, by Erms, Check them out, Dope!!!!!....http://tracksidegallery.bigcartel.com/

 Some outlines, A Foe I never finished..

And two Merc outlines, I might send them to him, sometime soon.....

 Just some rough sketches..

Just sketches to add today, rough ones at that, I think drawing is key to getting ideas, and helps greatly, no matter how bad they are, lol, these are pretty bad, but you learn by your mistakes, that's why drawing is good to practice. I'm going to start some life drawing, with Brad and Andrew fingers crossed, I do think if you can draw the human figure, it helps with all kinds of  art from proportion, characters, even letters, It gives you confidence too, Its a shame not many art schools and university's insist on life drawing, Most of the teaching seems to be about conceptual ideas, any-ways when this goes out I should be posting up some drawings from the classes, I need it I think...
Life drawing classes here, Its only £5 a session...http://www.a-muse.me/

This artist, Harry Holland, I been to his studio once before, His work was amazing, check him out if you like realism artwork....http://harry-holland.com/

 Jaze, (Twice-Jazeo-Finaaoutline/Fina 64) and Blue 202. Spar shop, Trowbridge, 1985/6


This dates back to at least 85, It might be 86, but due to the tags, Jazeo, ( Twice-Fina) Blue 202 I'm pretty certain its 85, Anyway its pretty old. I remember when they painted this, The guy who then owed the shop stupidly painted the panels in white gloss, or an oil based paint and spray paint and oil based paints don't mix to well. The paint did not sit well on the gloss, So close up the paint kinda bubbled basically. This was before all the paint made for graffiti, That are taken for granted these days.
It was still a dope piece back then
This was the first piece in Trowbride shops too, Trowbridge shops became an unstated H.O.F in a way, First there was this one.. Then there was a dope illegal piece called "No Crime Graffiti" that magically appeared one morning back in 85 on the church boundary wall, I so wish there where photos of it, ( I'll try to find some for sure has this blog takes shape). I remember the very first time I seen it, after school one day coming home via the shops then Boom!! it hit me for six as I  walked around the corner, I had to sit down and take it in for 15-20mins.That was the appeal back then, just seeing pieces in the flesh you never knew where they sprung up over night.
It was the same with the Pieces in the Subways and flat walls in St.Mellons, and in Trowbridge, waking up and Bam! some dope piece that impacted you like a knock out punch!..Esp if it was a glum drizzling afternoon, in a council estate during Thatchers reign in the 80s.
. These pieces helped make Trowbridge seem legal to paint, (It was never legal to paint there, Just we would turn up on a Sat or Sunday , knowing if police turned up, they couldn't contact and ask the council
Most people assumed it was legal as we where painting during the day, so didn't have much issues, they buffed the walls, but we'd paint on top, A lot of writers around used the same tactics)
But if it wasn't for pieces like No Crime Graffiti by (Twice-Jaze). Things may of been different.I loved that piece.. It was one of them pieces that just hit you Pow in the face,
The mid 80s in the UK always seemed to be dull, dank depressing days, until graffiti came along, and the hip hop scene with break dancers turning there bodys into wildstyle type graffiti letters, DJ's Like Jaffa playing this cool new sound called rap, recording tapes, from John peels radio station, getting tunes from anyway such as the electro lp's in vinyl..
( I'm planing to paint a number of street sounds /Electro canvases, based on the artwork of these vinyl masterpieces of design, as an homage to them. The whole series too)

It all happened so fast, Just amazing days, Its like the shit and glum days of living in a always wet, council estate, which was injected with light, and excitement, from the colour and movement of graffiti,
The moves these B.Boys and B.Girls where doing where just incredible, DJ's before hip hop and up to then, used to play shitty pop and just the cheesiest music/discos,with shite decks in places with names such as the ritzy, There was one in every town where everyone would be wearing stay press, and shoes and suits.
The Light show would be glitzy balls, with small dance floors, and a Ego centric DJ, wishing people happy birthdays while playing records like Abba, or party songs. The Dj's didn't even know what it was to mix one record seamlessly to another.Girls where in high heels 80 styles, This was going on all around the U.K.
Until Hip hop arrived firstly in records like rappers delight, by the time of 83, the gift from New york, had reached our shores in force...
It was incredible. This youth movement that was classed as a fad, came at the right time.
With out graffiti and Hip hop, I'm not sure how my or the lives of my contemporaries would be now.
With out Hip hop, further youth movements like Acid, house, Raves, I'm not sure they would of took place as they did.
anyway You have to check out The skills in Break dancing
Clock these moves here..

Some more moves here too, These guys beat gravity..

Still have had some web connection issues, Anyway I think these need to be seen again,

Some Old'ish artwork from 2005, I love this E by Hoxe, Great canvas...

 An Old skool styled S, by myself.

 These are by Rmer, Pure quality, Really Nice..

This is also by Rmer, Again a great canvas.
Some great work by the man himself here also http://illustrateproject.com/

http://tracksidegallery.bigcartel.com/

Big Lil City, By Hoxe...

A must see site, Some fine canvas, work by Rmer and Mr Hoxe at Track side Galley..

 As this blog is about drawings I thought I'd post some, just a couple of sketches, for ideas for future paintings, most will be binned, the above drawing is based on Mr Hoxe.

 some more bit and bobs..

I'll post more soon..

Nuit

I've just begun this Blog, then my Internet has gone down, Anyway I thought, I'd post this up today, It was done for my 11th birthday, by my uncle, (Pnut-Coma-Aroe) He, along with (Twice-Fina64) (Blue 202) Where already painting the area, St Mellon's, east side Cardiff back in 1984, There crew at the time was called The Top 3, I would say they started at the end of 83 painting the white flats around the estate, Theres not any photos around from that time, I know some where took, but they've been lost other the years. The first graffiti I seen was due to these guys, Along with a few other heads painting, one guy used to paint Busby, and another guy was painting these breakdance bubble style pieces with a fat puma sneaker on the flat walls.
I'll do some drawings from memory, of some of the first graffiti that I seen, This was before I seen Subway art.
The Piece above was painted in my Bedroom, it was my first tag Nuit, in June 84 I loved it, I remeber a lot of my friends from school asking to see it.
I'll add some posts, and sketches about the good old days, and the people who where involved back then, and are still active in the scene now as I go along with this blog..

first post, just testing

Firstly dont laugh, No..lol.. please do!!!..

Because its my first post in this blog, I'd thought, I'd post an image that nobody has seen from back in 1986, Me (Mabe, one of my tags back then) Mao and a writer called Rak1, ( he didn't have that name for nice letters etc, his tag summed him up perfectly, He was a wizard in the art of racking paint, just one of them types that just does it with no sweat, and would fill up including a ruck sack, then go and stash the paint before returning to grab a shit load, I always remeber when racking paint trying to do it quietly as we could, with out rattling the paint. Rak1 just went for it.
Great artist also. Recently heard from him, so hopefully I'll get to see what he's been doing.
Well this sorry excuse of painting was done back in the day when abstracted styles where in.. This really was painting with scraps of Car-plan, on a bit of wall, I don't think it was anything series. Just testing out effects I guess.
With this blog I'm going to post lots of stuff that's pretty bad, raw, and terrible and just ideas, sketches, all kinds of stuff that would not see light of day, so expect a lot of bad artwork, inspiration i find from other artists, and some dope work by my crew mates,
But my input will be a warts an all, look at all kinds of crap over the years. It might be more about ideas and rough sketches, outlines, and messed up drawings.. I'll just take this as it comes.
Dec 13, 2011.