My friend Jane has provided many great bits of street art, and she found another one in December. This one (on the corner of Ventnor Street and Newland Avenue in Hull) is part of a Culture Cab project, which you can read about here.
Archive for March, 2018
Street Art #207
Posted in Street Art, tagged #culturecab, art, culture cab, graffiti, hull, mural, newland cabs, street art on March 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Adventures in eco-printing: part 2
Posted in Eco-printing, tagged bookbinding, coptic binding, Eco-printing, ecoprint, ecoprinting, etsy, handmade, nature, notebook, stationery on March 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Ok, this isn’t really a proper part 2 (which I said I would write in January but never did get around to). Part 1 is here if you missed it. What this is, is a quick heads up that the first batch of eco-printed books are now available in my Etsy shop. I added nine last night and one has been snapped up already so go and take a peek as each one is unique.
Street Art #206
Posted in Street Art, tagged art, bristol, graffiti, mural, street art on March 23, 2018| 1 Comment »
A bold and cheerful one from my friend Eleanor, who spotted this in Partition Street, Bristol.
Street Art #205
Posted in Street Art, tagged art, graffiti, morzine, mural, street art on March 16, 2018| Leave a Comment »
My fella goes snowboarding every January, but this is the first street art he’s brought back since 2015!
Street Art #204
Posted in Street Art, tagged art, carlton vale, graffiti, london, mural, NW6, street art on March 9, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Patch it up
Posted in Pins and needles, tagged bag, bag patches, buffy the vampire slayer, harry potter, hogwarts, hogwarts alumni patch, patches, rucksack, sewing, shoulder bag, sunnydale, sunnydale high patch on March 8, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I have a little holiday coming up (in fact I fly tomorrow!) and as a treat I got myself a nifty new bag.
It’s great, it turns from a shoulder bag into a rucksack with just an easy pull of the straps. It’s also the perfect colour for me, I like the classic khaki and tan. However I did want to put my own personal mark on it. So I bought some patches.
I removed the logo patch that was already on the bag and then sewed these two beauties on. It was a lot fiddlier than I had anticipated (I’ve never sewn a badge onto a bag before) because I didn’t want to go too far and sew the patch to the lining. Got it done though, and I love how it looks. The Hogwarts alumni patch was from eBay, and the Sunnydale High one from this seller on Etsy.
Street Art #203
Posted in Street Art, tagged art, graffiti, leek, mouse, mural, sarkon, street art on March 2, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Do you ever look at a piece of street art and wonder where the artist got their inspiration from? I do, and recently I was able to actually ask the artist in question!
A while ago, back in 2016, I featured this cheerful piece by Sarkon that I had spotted in Brough Park, Leek. I’m quite often in Leek, visiting family, and the mural makes me smile whenever I see it so I was delighted when the artist got in touch with me via my blog. So I asked, what inspired the mouse?
Thats a damn good question from my little sister, she inspired that 100% just from a little girl she was obsessed with mice. As young children me and my big sister picked on her but no one else could, so as a little tribute I woke up one morning after racking my mind for ideas on characters, boom it hit me the mouse was born, now branching out into a badger, monkey and a panda.
What a sweet reason! He has sent me a few photos and updates on other bits of street art he’s working on, so here’s a selection.