Urban Art Blog

Artswipe :: Cool name and cool prints for sale by artists Suzko, JBoy, Schnulli, Andy Dog and Gerry Baptist. If you’re a UK artist looking for a great deal on digital and screen printing Artswipe’s sister site Atom Printing should be your next destination.

  I don’t know why, perhaps because all the subjects were dead, but old photographs used to creep me out as a kid. Black and WTF have definitely brought on a bout of deja vu for me. Freaky people from the past doing unexplainable things is the theme for this unique Tumblr blog. If you [...]

Obviously inspired by the ground breaking work of fellow 3D glass painter Xia Xiao Wan, Miami based artist NFN Kalyan has produced more works for his remarkable series of glass portraits entitled ‘Nature of the Beast’. Each 3D painting/sculpture in the series is composed of 20+ layered panes of engraved starphire glass, lit with LED [...]

Here’s a real clever piece of graphic art, an interactive map of the birth and movement of music genres across the world. See it in action here.

Why? Why not? How? Beads. Price? Sold out. Are these real skulls, I mean, did they used to have brains in them? Yep. I’m not sure if I’d have wanted one of these Huichol artisan skulls (especially at those prices) but they are dead pretty :p If you’re desperate to get one you’re better off [...]

Check out this cool speed painting blog by an anonymous artist with a great eye for composition and a deep love for movies… See more at www.sketchesnatched.blogspot.com.

Papercraft master Matt Nicholson offers a selection of papercraft designs including a real working Pinhole Leica Camera! Based in London/Herts, Matt has been exhibiting across the capital throughout 2011, particularly wowing the crowds with his fully functional papercraft Pinhole Camera. If you fancy your own you can download the printable cut-out plans for £3 here. [...]

Svetografika is a relatively new photographic technique developed by the Russian photographer and writer team of Igor and Irina under the pseudonym of HoryMa. Svetografika essentially means “to draw light” and from what I gather it involves taking hundreds of photos of the same object or scene in a vast spectrum of exposures before overlaying [...]

Opening under cover of night somewhere in Paris, four stories beneath la rue, a secret subterranean gallery in a sealed tunnel appears suddenly. …The Underbelly has been here, and if you discover this curated collection of Street Art and graffiti in the chilled dim light, you are officially lost. And lucky. The secret underground gallery [...]

Have you heard of Etchpop? You should have, they’ve been featured just about everywhere, and with good reason. I’m sure most of us would agree that a custom woodblock cutting service would be a godsend. But right now there is still a chance they won’t launch, and that’s where you can help. They’re planning to [...]