Smooth Jazz Stencil Shirt

Smooth Jazz will rock your world. Especially when you wear it to raves and other parties where people are afraid of anything other than trance music. Cuz really, Smooth Jazz is trance for old people. Don't fear Smooth Jazz, we'll all be there one day soon.

Spraying Custom Shirts

Super easy and rad project. Cheap shirts, spray paint, stencil paper. You can either hand draw a design, or make one using Illustrator or the like and print directly onto your stencil paper. Cut out the design or the negative for a block style effect. Then your stencil is ready to be sprayed...

Make your stencil on sticky paper so it will keep a nice tight seal with the shirt, that way the lines of the design will be nice and crisp. Don't soak the shirt as the cotton will bleed the design.

Lift the stencil and *poof* ... you've got your custom shirt!

80'S PUBLIC ACCESS PROMO

For real, this image is the kind of gem you find on public access. If, that is, you're into cheese quartz and don't mind super bad audio from people that love to hear their own voice.

VAIN SPACEMEN

Nice theme and a couple great sprays found in the changing area at Vain hair salon in downtown Seattle. Not sure who this artist is for the these two designs... but strong work! Lots of layering and stencil use, varying application techniques, and super depth.

What came first, the bike or the wall?

This sweet add to the GAS site comes via Levi Clark, a good friend of mine with an eye for rad. There's a lot to love about this piece... you can check out more images over at Brick Lane Bikes.

HArt Project ... Valentines Day 2010 ... Green Lake Park Seattle

Screw Hallmark! Another commerce holiday... how lovely. Spend spend give some diamond pink drink. Or not. We made it real by sprinkling some guerilla art action this Valentines 2010 with the Briar Bates championed "HArt" project on the trail around Green Lake Park outside of Seattle. Four hearts were created and left for passerbys to experience a little magic. There was the Thorn Heart (Matthew), the Shrub Heart, the Rotten Heart, and the Bodice Heart (all three by Briar).

Here's the Thorn Heart being installed between two trees that overhang the water. The heart was woven from rose bush branches, and suspended between the trees with fishing wire. Some blood and skin were shed making this one, massive thorns are attracted to DNA.

The Bodice Heart was an interactive piece. A passerby was to step on the board below (later modified with an inflatable beetle replacing the wood) that would pump air through the hose hidden on the ground and up the bodice to the heart. When released, the heart deflated!

This piece is the Shrub Heart. For obvious reasons. Though Leo had no idea it was trimmed into a heart shape until later when we walked back and he captured the correct viewing angle. This piece was awesome in its simplicity, yet had the greatest impact. All you need is a dead bush and some red spray paint and you've got art people! Do it.

Rad paper mache and molding clay Rotten Heart, how apropos to be hung from a crab apple tree. This one was a bit off the path, so finding it would have been a surprise for sure. I wonder how long the city parks crew will let the HArt project bleed on for?

Giving a quick "shout out" to Leo for coming along and taking a bunch of great photos, and for climbing trees and rolling around in the mud. Also, he's really tall like a ladder with a horse for a bike.

Herakut... Beautiful and Inspiring

Bonez Frame & Mermaid Stencil T

Wood frame for the Bonez Comic is complete, minus a paint job. Trying to work out a good easy treatment for the cardboard, and of course the sutures, so that the piece will look awkwardly massacre-like.

Jind Federal using his new dope ass graffiti spray paint on his mermaid horny stencil thru a perforated metal panel. I think the stencil now looks super fantastic yeah. Also, his decision to use a crappy 7 year old white shirt was questionable, but... well, i don't know?

Trying out some new paint

Art Rib

This is my next art project. Will go in the nook next to my fireplace and be hung on the wall. There will be a hidden rope light behind the art rib that will make the whole nook illuminate. The panels will probably be metal that I'll spray paint, using something like the pattern shown on the below right image. The whole thing will be pretty big, around 8' tall by 30" wide.

~Mollen 18

Super Seer Mirror, or i

Design of art piece in Photoshop, drawn full size. Using a grid, I transferred the lines over to the mirror, measuring off each point.

First I masked off the bevel edge, then masked off the main trapezoidal shape, then printed the eye on stickyback for the stencil and stuck it on. You can see some points measured on the bevel that I used as a guide.



Then I masked off the eye with paper, and sprayed the red paint.
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Next I reversed the mask and covered the red, then sprayed the black paint.

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Voila! Self portrait of the "reflection" or maybe the "i" with some pretty apropos images coming thru...

~Mollen 18