Sat on the train and saw loads of officers, can't do anything wrong these days.

£27 to get home.

Here's a pole that I really caught "just in time"--Connecticut Light & Power already transferred the lines over to the new pole and hoisted the new transformer up earlier today. And sadly, that old transformer's a cast-iron Westinghouse from the late 1910's/early 1920's--one of their very first CSP's! I hate to have to see it go, but at least I got a shot of it before it was too late.

Yellow + Linework = Love

"It Had To Be Done"

A Pakpandir X Silverqe collaboration

#amsterdam #paint #kmdg #graffiti #streetartistry #streetart #popart #art #streetart #kunst #canvas #painting #urbanart #handmade #gallery #freehand #urbanwalls #design #drawing #ink #illustration #wijdesteeg #ottograph #linework #canvas #graphic #murals #artist #artgallery #acrylic #museum #painter

Primitive Obsession 6＜1997＞

Jin Takeda

"Aaaaah!" gémit-il en touchant terre. Il ne fit qu'un bond hors de son kayak et se mit à courir, sa canne à pêche serrée contre lui, avec sa ligne, le cadavre de la Femme Squelette derrière lui, toujours emberlificoté dedans. Il escalada les rochers. Elle suivit. Il se mit à courir sur la toundra gelée. Elle suivit. Il courut sur le poisson qu'on avait mis à sécher dehors, le réduisant en miettes sous ses mukluks."

utch pop-art painter Ottograph.

Ottograph who graduated from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, started to paint at the young age of ten, he liked the idea of painting on the walls of the streets of Amsterdam and has never stopped doing so. Now Ottograph’s art can be seen in galleries, on wall’s, in bars and shops around the world and not to mention the wall’s of the Modern Art Museum of Antwerpen, MoMu in Belgium.

Ottograph’s work is full of color and life. What Ottograph paints is something that reflects to society in general and is something that people can relate to.

On his own or to gether with his fellow artist/friends Ottograph has also set up several successful projects such as CIA (Central Illustration Agencey), which speaks for it self as well as KMDG a group of artist with a backround in illustration, graffiti and street-art who bring together artist from around the world to paint walls and commissions together.

Over the years Ottograph has accumulated several important client’s such as Nike, Mars, MercedesBenz, and Apple i-pod and i-phone just to name a few…

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In Las Palmas noemen ze alle VJ's VJ. Behalve Ottograph, dat is de Kunstenaar. Zijn voornaamste bezigheid is namelijk schilderen, en dat zie je terug in zijn animaties, waarin beeld - en niet techniek - de hoofdrol speelt. Ooit was Otto Kruijsen, oftewel Ottograph, nachtenlang in de weer met spuitbussen, om een vette piece neer te zetten op trein of muur. Daar kreeg ie genoeg van, en na diverse omzwervingen meldde Otto zich in 1993 aan op de Rietveld Academie, om schilder te worden. Al snel besefte hij dat hij allang wist wat hij wilde en kon, en helemaal geen zin had om voor de zoveelste keer van voren af aan te beginnen. Tabe Rietveld dus. Een goeie zet, want sindsdien is het Otto voor de wind gegaan.

Zijn eerste expositie, samen met een paar vrienden, was een groot succes: ze verkochten hun doeken in een galerie verbouwd tot supermarkt, met o.a. een echte kassa bij de deur. Naar aanleiding van deze expositie werd Ottograph gevraagd om prints voor t-shirts en kleding van Bodyglove te ontwerpen. Een toffe maar heftige job, omdat hij alles met de hand deed. Hierna schafte Otto de computer aan. Vele ontwerpopdrachten volgden, en Otto leefde zich jarenlang uit in illustraties en logo's. En hij legde zich toe op het VJ-en. Het schilderen verdween in die tijd naar de achtergrond, de reden waarom hij het ontwerpwerk en illustreren op den duur weer heeft afgestoten.

Waar ben je tegenwoordig mee bezig?

Ottograph: "Ik focus me op het schilderen van grote doeken, die ik exposeer. In galerie Vips in Rotterdam hangen bijvoorbeeld doorlopend doeken van mij, maar ook in galeries in Amsterdam en Den Bosch. Vorig jaar had ik nog een expositie in Rome en deze zomer zelfs in St. Petersburg, waar ik erg blij mee ben. Op dit moment heb ik een expositie in de Bijenkorf Amsterdam. Er hangen schilderijen in de galerie, en in de Chill Out kun je jassen en petjes kopen, waar een zeefdruk van mij op staat. Afgelopen zomer heb ik meegedaan aan een kunstproject waarbij zes kunstenaars ieder een tent beschilderden, die op diverse festivals te zien waren, waaronder Lowlands. Vrij recent heb ik ook nog een auto beschilderd, voor een open dag van een school: de kinderen mochten met Ottograph een auto beschilderen. Dus ik ben met een hoop dingen bezig kun je wel zeggen."

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Ottograph, a large-scale muralist, has been slinging paint since the age of ten. The Modern Art Museum of Antwerpen (Belgium) is home to a giant Ottograph mural. Otto also painted murals in Moscow, Tokyo, Berlin New York and San Fancisco. Ottograph is also operating the website “I Paint Everyday” www.ipainteveryday.com to encourage the tedious, yet necessary practice of serious painting.

Ottograph has worked for clients like Greenpeace, Tommy Hilfiger, Nike, Mars, Ford, and Merecedes-Benz.

#ottograph

Dutch artist Ottograph created Amsterdam’s first real 24/7 outdoor street art gallery at the Wijdesteeg. This is a pic of the colored paving stones of this smashing aleyway.

#wijdesteeg

Media: illustrator, spraypaint, acrylics, stencil, markers, print and wood.

The first session of a cover-up sleeve. I can't WAIT to color this beauty!

Selection from the book - Illustrations by Sydney R. Jones worthy of study and emulation, wonderful linework and tone variety.

Expansion on an idea I had in my sketchbook.

This is my ma and pa's Christmas present.

Conceptual Pencil Perspective sketches for design review and approval.

Primitive Obsession 5＜1997＞

Jin Takeda

I was contacted to do some flyers for a dance club at Mercer College (Tennessee) that was holding a charity benefit meant to help out Peruvians in need of homes. The event was all about Dancing, Deserts and Dating it up with many a fine ladies and dudes, so I tried to convey that best with the flyers showcasing cookiedancing and cakebeats.

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Example of using SketchUp Frame in generating perspective sketches.

Intention: For this image, I intended to highlight texture and linework by getting close up and filling the frame.

Reference to reading: Duchemin emphasizes the importance of allowing your images to be more abstract and to "create new worlds" within them. Due to how close I was here, viewers can see the swirls and lines in the metal, as well as the dirt built up on the surface.

Outcome: I think I was able to achieve my goal, and the vantage point I used helped to create depth.

Edits: I mainly edited to bring out highlights and increase contrast. I also added more blue/cyan coloring to the midtones.

Selection from the book - Illustrations by Sydney R. Jones worthy of study and emulation, wonderful linework and tone variety.

Watched that show on channel 4 about those firemen in New York on 9/11.

Stitched Panorama

Little stencil jam at the free wall in Central Square Cambridge all brought to you by MEME gallery. Interesting people and great weather, what more can you ask for?

Photo cred: Dan Ferraro

The mini piece that will be coming with the Grazes - Myths 7" release package: only 30 release packages!

Made use of the pipe man haha

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Selection from the book - Illustrations by Sydney R. Jones worthy of study and emulation, wonderful linework and tone variety.

Don't usually upload my uni work cos its not as good as my personal stuff haha

But thought as its pretty much the only thing I've been working on lately, I might as well.

These are for an illustration campaign for cricket company 'Gunn & Moore'. The idea was that cricket, its 'not just a profession': cricket players in their professions in cricket outfits, and in cricketing positions for example bowling etc.

Some don't work as well as eachother such as the farmer and miner/farmer but I am generally pleased with the outcome.

Dorothy meets Pink Floyd

This design was inspired by the "synchronicity" phenomenon when pairing the 1973 Pink Floyd music album "The Dark Side of the Moon" with the visual portion of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

The phenomenon produces moments where the film and the album appear to correspond with each other. Pink Floyd members and others involved in the making of the album state that any relationship between the two works of art is merely a coincidence...

So they say...

Primitive Obsession 5＜1997＞

Jin Takeda

Selection from the book - Illustrations by Sydney R. Jones worthy of study and emulation, wonderful linework and tone variety.

Don't usually upload my uni work cos its not as good as my personal stuff haha

But thought as its pretty much the only thing I've been working on lately, I might as well.

These are for an illustration campaign for cricket company 'Gunn & Moore'. The idea was that cricket, its 'not just a profession': cricket players in their professions in cricket outfits, and in cricketing positions for example bowling etc.

Some don't work as well as eachother such as the farmer and miner/farmer but I am generally pleased with the outcome.

Conceptual Pencil Perspective sketches for design review and approval.