Street Fine Art Spotlight

Over the by twosome I've weeks I've been running through 5 cities inwards iii dissimilar countries to feed my street fine art addiction. I ended upward alongside loads too loads of pictures of exactly nearly every slice of street fine art that caught my oculus too happily posted quite a few of them on my weblog too on Instagram. But equally I was scrolling through the pictures the other day, I noticed that quite a few of these pieces hadn't gotten the attending they deserve. They don't brand the cutting for a street fine art tour post, I don't know plenty nearly them to write an entire article on them, or they would merely larn lost inwards the sea of images that is Instagram. These pieces deserve improve than that, which is why I'm putting them inwards the spotlight today. I promise you'll dearest them equally much equally I do!

Location: weird stairs connecting Grassmarket too Johnston Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland

Seen on: March 26th

Ignore the give-and-take NARG here, displace I convey no stance what it's supposed to hateful too it's non a specially catchy cite for a street artist. No, this i is all nearly the eyes. When I rounded the corner of ... they were the outset affair I saw on these doors total of graffiti. I at nowadays loved them. The creative soul used stencils to brand these, which is my favorite shape of street fine art since it results inwards really construct clean too ofttimes really detailed pieces. The color is what blew me away though. I never would've picked light-green for eyes similar these, but it plant genuinely good too those picayune specks of white exactly arrive complete!

Artist: KBTR

Location: Grindbak, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Seen on: Apr 1st

You mightiness recognize this gnome from my postal service nearly the street fine art tour inwards Utrecht. The argue why it deserves to a greater extent than fourth dimension inwards the spotlight is the mysterious 5/5 you lot tin run into on the page that's come upward out of the book. When nosotros noticed this publish during the tour, nosotros kept on speculating what it could hateful too no i came upward alongside an idea. I wanted to tell 'aliens', but that would've made fifty-fifty less feel than it already does inwards most situations. So nosotros eventually moved on too allow it be.
Then, a few weeks ago, I could non slumber too flora myself stalking Dutch artists on Instagram when I flora myself looking at roughly other KBTR slice alongside the grade 2/5. Turns out at that topographic point was a total of 5 pieces too inwards each of them the gnome was wearing a dissimilar type of headgear. This was the concluding slice inwards the serial too fifty-fifty though I haven't seen the other 4 inwards existent life I mean value it's condom to tell that this i is my favorite, because books are the best, no questions asked.

Location: 4e Westewagenhof, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Seen on: Apr 14th

The irony of putting a give-and-take then strongly associated alongside liberty literally behind bars is what makes this slice then good. True, the letters mightiness non endure pretty or fifty-fifty special, but they larn the project done. It spoke to me too every fourth dimension I await dorsum on this film I smile.

Location: Westewagenstraat, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Seen on: Apr 12th

This i is already an all fourth dimension favorite for me. It exactly popped upward out of nowhere. I saw this slice spell shopping inwards Rotterdam alongside my mom, which isn't the best of moments to disappear too fangirl over street art. I figured someone'd used roughly special fluorescent spray paint, marked the location on my mental map of the urban nitty-gritty too allow it be. When I came dorsum a few days afterwards I was surprised to discovery out that these awesome picayune newspaper planes were genuinely made alongside tape. Yes, you lot read that right, tape. With a few uncomplicated lines someone managed to create the most recognizable paradigm of newspaper planes ever. Thanks to the colors it's impossible to walk by them without noticing. But what I similar best nearly it, is the alternative of material. Tape. Who fifty-fifty thinks of record equally a things to brand images with? Definitely non me. Just goes to exhibit that everything is possible inwards the footing of street art.

I'm planning on running through many many to a greater extent than cities total of street fine art inwards the adjacent few weeks. Apart from that I've already flora a few novel pieces inwards Rotterdam that I'm completely obsessed with. So continue an oculus out for this place. There's much to a greater extent than street fine art to come!

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