Urban Art Blog

Glasgow-based British hyperrealist artist Paul Cadden creates photographic images from pencil and nothing more. See all his work at his Deviant Art portfolio.

As soon as Sam Spratt graduated in 2010 he became the (first) in-house staff illustrator for popular media conglomerate Gawker. Since then he’s moved from strength to strength applying his expert oil painting techniques in digital format for clients like Kanye, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga His abstractions of form, colour and even to some [...]

This guy’s illustrations will blow your mind, yep they’re all charcoal drawings, not photographs.   See more of Yanni Floros’ work at www.yannifloros.com and/or read the (very long) interview @ Lemonade Mag.

The superb coloured pencil art of Marco Mazzoni… Prints are planned for later this year!

  On The Air is the latest amazing graphite work by Brooklyn artist Joe Fenton. Graphite on watercolour paper. See more at www.joefentonart.com and Behance.

 Connect10, a national competition for UK wide cultural venues to win an artist-led event and a share of £7000, announces the artist line-up. Culture24′s new project for Museums at Night, Connect10, matches ten contemporary artists with ten museums and galleries for a series of special one-off Museums at Night events over the weekend of May [...]

Surrealist artist and illustrator Sachin Teng based in NYC really knows how to mash up his beautifully drafted art, almost to the degree that his unique iconography subvertises just about anyone and anything. Undermining the tools of corporate media and mass consensus for a better future for all. “Art is a means of visual communication, [...]

  Sanna Annukka is a half Finnish, half English illustrator and print maker with a love for nature and folklore. In 2006 she was talent spotted by British band Keane which led to a collaboration on their second million selling album ‘Under the Iron Sea.’ London based creative agency, Big Active, art directed the campaign [...]

US pop artist and 80′s icon James Rizzi died on the 29th of December aged 61. A prolific designer – in 1980 he designed the cover for the first album of new wave band, the Tom Tom Club – a side project of Talking Heads’ Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz. He also animated two music [...]

Here’s what I gave my other half for Xmas… ‘Elephantom’. A1 white ink drawing on black card.