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 featured on his blog, hyperrealist painter Jeremy “Spaceman” Geddes’ Cluster ended up being a very involved and complex painting which is part of the reason that it took so long to finish. It will be up at the Levine show later this year and details about prints are still to come. In the meantime [...]

Miina Äkkijyrkkä is a Finnish sculptor based in Helsinki with a real talent for making scrap metal sculpture and in particular her giant “car cows”. She’s won a state prize for a work and continues to this day sculpting scrap as well as more traditional bronze pieces.

Adam Ladd of Ladd Design showcases the wins and fails in the world of branding with the insights of his 5 year old daughter.

Until 1991 American artist Marlene Carroll Couri was a major player in the fashion industry, staging and choreographing major catwalk events across NY and throughout the USA. After discovering a buzz for painting she’s become the queen of “shine”. Couri’s work looks like something from a toy shop window. The ceramic glazed look to Couri’s [...]

I love Andrey Tarkovskiy‘s sci-fi epics Solyaris (which dumps on Clooney‘s effort from a great height) and the lesser known but equally as spellbinding Stalker. But when I came across Russian humorist Badman‘s contribution to the world of classic NES gaming I had to laugh. Stick with it and see the player opt for drinking [...]

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 [...]

The Fourth Wall Project in Boston will be holding a street art exhibition from February 4-23 entitled ‘Street Wall’. Featured artists include The Phantom, LNY, Geoff Hargadon, Nanook, James Nardone, Black Math, Tiptoe and Radical. See flyer for more info.

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.

Matthew Davis is a rare talent. A painter with a unique method, a true reinvention of the rather staid art of Pointillism, Davis’ pooling of household gloss paint on to canvas captures our shared and perceived reality in all its scientific glory. Vision, physical form, colour and light, everything around us is merely the result [...]