Paint It Black

The mysterious artist known as B3 opens a door for us in the 18b Arts District. This piece is quite rich in detail and a ton of possible hidden meanings.....Or is that just us reading into stuff? Well anyway, this hand drawn piece looks like it took a bit of time to finish. It is always a great to see an artist takes their time on an illegal piece, be it paint, paste or ink. We enjoy it all and this piece is no different. 

Paint By Numbers

We found this "caged bird" piece glued (we guess, we didn't try to pull on it) to a wall in the 18b Arts District. A small white canvas with a straight up store bought stenciled image on it, the word POP written on it, colored dots and a wax seal for some reason. The unknown artist signed it before they left it, but we can't even read that signature. A mash up of styles, techniques and colors. Kinda has a childlike innocence to it though, hope that is what they were going for.

Street Clip Art

We recently came across these flyers pasted all over an electrical box with existing artwork. A rather nice job of capping everyone but a pretty damn piss poor attempt at artwork. The only thing we can figure out is that they are trying to be witty with a pasted "wet paint" sign, and maybe they are taking the joke even further with that ridiculously shitty clip art. Kudos if you are trying to make crap artwork to make some enlightened statement about art in general, but we are guessing... Probably not.

Combo Hits

Indecline and 4matr get some combo hits off Main St. in the 18b. From what we've seen, these two have been on a West Coast mission hitting everything in sight! Indecline with their walking business devilman and 4matr with color images of Micky Mouse's fist holding cash, with his logo tiled in the background. These two pieces are large, clean and look damn good, not only cuz they are pretty much the only pieces on this street. But cuz they are quality, something that wins over quantity every damn time. Well, with us that is.

Spray Paste

We recently came across this image of a Montana Hardcore 2 spraycan pasted to an old 18b electrical box. Yup, you read that right. A wheatpasted image of a spraycan! To top it all off, this is an image straight from an online catalog that hasn't been altered in the slightest. Well, unless you count those Sharpie tags. Kind of an interesting choice to leave the clear cap on the can, still feels like an advertisement with the stock image though. 

To Boldly Paste

The ever elusive artist known as Zork returns to the 18b Arts District with a new and larger piece than seen previously. Zork definitely puts in the time and effort with his street artwork, artists usually print an image this size or tile two images to achieve this size. But Zork's pieces can consist of anywhere from 4 to 10 separate images tiled together to make a larger piece. We love this image of the floating astronaut and the use of an existing (or is it new?) spraypainted black line to simulate an astronaut's umbilical cord. Zork is really stepping up his game, great stuff!

Red, White and Dekoe

Dekoe gets a little high in the 18b Arts District with a new piece between The Teacher/Thrashbird collab and Milk the Bunny's older piece. Using his icon gritted teeth face for a multicolor and to us a decidedly more patriotic looking image this time. The wheatpaste even yellowed in the heat and sunlight, which somehow makes it look even MORE patriotic to us. Sorta reminds us if Dekoe was doing street art in the last Bioshock game or something, hmmmm at least to our nerdy gaming eyes it does. Cool piece either way!