Jesus Paints

Recycled Propaganda with a small paster of their Sacred Toxicity piece on an electrical box on Carson, the image of a respirator wearing Jesus rising from paint splatters. Recycled Propaganda is a big player on the Las Vegas art scene, an artist with a charged message. Seeing themselves as "A socio-political artist driven by the urge to promote critical thought and debate in an increasingly ignorant and apathetic society." Never ones to shy away from showing the real and sometimes brutal truth, they definitely grab peoples attention with their artwork.  ......aaaand not a clue about the Asspounders Anonymous Z "collab" sticker on the front of the box though, now what in the hell is that all about?!

Branded

Visual Bluff and Indecline team up for a downtown mission, hitting those damn leftover spray cans from Life is Beautiful. To us the cans look almost as good as D*Face's cans, but there are too many inconsistencies that just don't match his level of craft for us to believe they are the real deal. Both artists uses large wheatpaste images to give these cans a much needed update. They have a finished and almost official branded look with these perfectly placed logos popping off the drab concrete. Some great quality stuff from these two, time for us all to step up our game! 

Thinkin' Bout Vegas

New paster from Ill Thinking overlooking downtown Vegas, cool little brain design with "ill" written within the grey (well kinda blue actually) matter. Not sure what the story is here, other than we went to their site and it says "This page is in existence to put my random things. No rhyme, no reason." ......and that is it, nothing else is on there! Looks like someone moved this paster when it was wet too, but didn't take it? Hmmm, weird.

Mortal Komrades

Milk the Bunny and Shye Bunnysuit spare us the wait of their inevitable artistic collaboration. We hoped these two artists would find each other and work together. Lucky for us they didn't waste any time and the results are just great! A vibrant and colorful "versus" piece (complete with Mortal Kombat reference), using each artists signature style, playing off each other, while making one fun and cohesive piece. Nice! Now just don't make us wait til Easter for the next collab piece, ok you two?

Float The Bunny

Milk The Bunny is a strong presence on the Las Vegas street art scene and she is always hitting the streets with new pieces of art to keep her vision & voice out there. This hand painted paster of a cloud with her stylized bunny ears covered in Café Bustelo logos definitely brings more beauty & color downtown. Found floating on 10th Street between Fremont and Ogden.

It's Getting Better

Since the early 2000s Indecline have been putting out some of the most intense and violent street skate videos, while getting up worldwide using stencils, stickers, spray paint or wheatpaste. They use it all! Here in Las Vegas, their devil horned businessman image is as familiar with locals as the lights on The Strip. Found on the Coolidge wall in the18b Arts District.

Street Art Associate

Artist, photographer, journalist and fellow Los Angeles escapee Ed Fuentes has written a great article on the Las Vegas street art scene. Giving us a look at the 18b Arts District through his blog paintthisdesert.com, check it out!

The Church of Street Art

Los Angeles street artist Thrashbird turns the 18b Arts District into the Church of Street Art.
Using a hand painted Christ on a child's alphabet playroom mat joined together in the shape of a cross.
This piece certainly cuts a striking image hanging high above the other artwork, giving the whole scene a pseudo-religious feel with his black and white crucified Christ looking down and judging us all..Amen!

Street Magic

Abracadabra! The second Los Angeles street artist Teacher piece appears overnight, almost like magic.
Teacher's artistic abilities are only matched by the amount they are varied! This colorful, detailed and tightly sprayed stenciled image of magician David Blaine is a great example of just one of the mediums he uses to spread his message. Located right off Coolidge in the 18b Arts District. Great stuff!

Teamwork = Streetwork

We got a call last week from Thrashbird letting us know that him and Teacher would be pulling through
Vegas with some new pieces, so we let them know spots to hit and were excited to see their results.
Both artists have completely different styles and yet complimentary to each other, as well as being two
of the most visual artists on the streets of Los Angeles. Teacher with his messages of "Teach Each Child"
and "Teach Peace" and Thrashbird with his clone images reminding us how we are slaves to our phones.
Here is the first of a few pieces that you'll be seeing this week from the duo, on Coolidge in the 18b Arts District.