Category Archives: Spray Paint

Dazzling Colour and Composition in Xuan Alyfe's Lively Murals

Posted at 2 pm on March 29, 2013 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Painting, Spray Paint, Street Art

We’d like it if some of Xuan Alyfe’s lively murals popped up around the area we live to make the city streets all that more cheerful. In dazzling colour with a few welcome neons thrown in, Xuan creates these intense pieces on walls and in exhibition spaces. They’re all about careful composition. A mixture of symbols and expressive sprays of paint are placed in considered layouts to create a wonderful, chaotic balance.

Paintings, Vectors and Wolves: Interview with Sebastien Feraut aka Niark1

Posted at 3 pm on June 27, 2012 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Painting, Spray Paint, Street Art, Vector Illustration

The different talents of French artist, Sebastien Feraut aka Niark1 are as multiple as are the eyes of the weird, wolfish creatures that inhabit his work. His trippy imagery, which manages a sense of darkness despite its beaming colours, fills illustrations and graphics as well as his own large paintings. The strong individual character of his work moves unscathed from his tactile, hand-made mark-rich paintings to crisp edges of his vector-based work.

Editorial Illustration by Adam Quest

Posted at 4 pm on July 30, 2011 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Mixed Media, Spray Paint

Here are some examples of Poland-based Adam Quest’s tactile illustrations. He uses scanned-in, mix media surfaces and harsh edges in his work. We caught up with him and asked him to tell us a little about himself and what he does.

The Weird World of Nima Ehtemam

Posted at 11 pm on October 28, 2010 by Katherine Holt

Posted in: Ink Illustration, Linear Illustration, Painting, Pens and Markers, Spray Paint

Like scenes from a weird dream, Nima Ehtemam’s illustrations are characterised by their limited pallet and fluid black key-lines. Nima creates his images using ink, spray paint, acrylic and markers on wood, canvas and paper. He spoke to Ape on the Moon about his influences.

Pietari Posti Illustrations

Posted at 8 pm on January 16, 2010 by Alex Mathers

Posted in: Digital Illustration, Ink Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Spray Paint

I’ve been following Finnish illustrator Pietari Posti’s work for some time, and it’s been fascinating to peer into his extremely accomplished and refined portfolio.

Using a range of traditional and digital mediums, Pietari’s work exhibits a profound understanding of the value of well balanced composition; using colour, varying line thickness, shape and tone to create congruent artwork.

Illustrations of Grant Coghill

Posted at 6 pm on November 26, 2009 by Alex Mathers

Posted in: Digital Illustration, Fabric Design, Screen Printing, Spray Paint, Street Art

I’m really liking the spray painted effects, interesting line work and strong colours used in the illustrations of Scottish illustrator and designer Grant Coghill.

He gets it just right when it comes to minimal colour choice and the gradients created through texture.