Street Art

Sketch a day - Day 108/365

Walking up Great Horton Road, towards Bradford collage this week (to attend the amazing sound RnD and hear the experiments the sound team - Marf and Jack Sibley - have been creating for the Otherhood play - during which I got really excited) I saw this fabulous stencil created by STEWY. I love the street art , pasteups and graffiti in Bradford. You turn a corner and see some art in an unexpected place and it just gives me a lift.

I love the playfulness. And the invitation to see a space in an unexpected way. Streets as art galleries. Unexpected people as model. There are fab examples all over Bradford.

Anyway, seeing this life size stencil of Jamie Chadwick (a F1 car developer) made me smile. That jaunty shade of red. The surprise of coming across a picture that is life size. Something about that, that makes the kid in me skip a beat of pleasure. And also the tiny little robot dude round the corner of the wall on the other side. So tiny it would be easy to miss it. It's so great.

I also love drawing street art. The challenge. The way you discover more about a creation when you try to recreate it. The rendering of something in an entirely different medium. One of the things I just couldn't capture in this drawing was the pleasure of the solid red wall. And also, I like to draw it because it's a way to mark a moment. Street art appears and then one day its gone. No warning. Just painted over and a new adventure begins.

Anyway, you can find out more about the STEWY pieces in Bradford (along with fab pieces done by Martyn Johnston) here https://www.the-leap.org.uk/programmes-1/fuelling-futures-street-stencil-art

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