Day in the life of a street artist: MadC

March 18, 2015 · by · in ,

Via Google Cultural Institute: MadC, folks. This woman’s work is amazing. via wikipedia: Claudia Walde, known as MadC, is a graffiti artist from Germany who is known for her large scale outdoor artistic works. MadC started her artistic trajectory as…

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OMEN – a Canon True Original

August 20, 2014 · by · in , , ,

As my regular readers know, I do some writing for Omen, the Montreal Street artist. Throughout the summer he’s been working on OMENfest, painting all over Montreal and other locations such as Toronto and Rochester. He’s also been working on…

Alex Produkt

Alex Produkt

June 16, 2014 · by · in , , ,

When I first moved back to Montreal in 2002, I was living in Little Burgundy by  the Turcotte Expressway, and started seeing these really unusual drawings on the walls in the area, all painterly faces and stuff… I was used…

Post Roundup – the Book of Faces Edition II

October 1, 2013 · by · in , , , , , ,

This week’s topics: Women in Street Art, Colour Use in Marketing, Vintage Cookbook Illustrations, the Psychology of Over-Exposure to Art, a New Show by Jenny Holzer, and Scientific Illustration of Ugly Extinct Creatures as Body Art. Whew! It’s not every…

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Omen514

August 6, 2013 · by · in ,

As those of you who follow this blog regularly know, I am a big fan of graffiti/ street art and one of my favourite Montreal artists is Omen. I’m teaming up with him to help with his social media presence,…