BnB @ StreetFest Workings

In Polaroid Form! Cause i can. Street Fest Was Actualy Really good this year. Probably the Best year they've had since opening it. Beddow n Battini Were fortunate enough to Get an invite to Paint. so me, Tatiana and Haddi got Busy.

Thanks To Haddi for all these Awesome Photos

EffnerPlatz 100wordpilgrimage

100wordpilgrimage.

What can I say about this project. its probably been the most successful of all of beddow n battinis exhibitions. this time to the point where we are going international. One of our members has moved back to Germany[Munich in particular] and set up the show out there, which has been pretty successful so far.

5 members of the onion collective went out there to create work for the show,and to generally support the germans with our project.

It actually went really well. My Particular place was called MaeWest. It is at the end of Effnerplatz and has this Giant spiral sculpture in the middle of it. Pretty cool that i got this piece because everyone knows i like mad structures.

more information about 100wordpilgrimage can be found on www.100wordpilgrimage.com and 100wordpilgrimage-munich.tumblr.com.

Heres some of what i got up to. A little bit of my process

It felt really good to Lino cut again. I think ill be doing that more often.

Big Job In Moscow

I probably should have Posted this up as soon as i came back but its been workworkwork!

We had a big commission handed to us after the show last May at southwark studios. Someone came and saw the giant wall that we did for journey from east to south and wanted something similar for their company.

The Company was to my surprise a Russian investment bank named ATON Investment. BIG Players apparently in the whole world money game :S I don't know nothin bout investments, but they offered to pay for a trip to Moscow/Russia.... Why not?

IT WAS NOTHING LIKE THE FREE-STYLE WE DID AT SOUTHWARK! it was its own beast.... Even though we had a plan[which we had been planning months prior], Drawing 23 years of the company and the worlds history all in proportion and in-line with a chart that they gave us WAS NOT EASY.  No one thought we'd get it done in time but with hard work, a little bit of frustration and sushi dinners supplied by our wonderful/beautiful assistant[and the one who eventually paid us], we got this commission done on time. On time being 30 minutes before people came in from work over their holidays.

30 Meters long eeeeeash! Tatiana focused on the type and characters, I handled the lines and the construction/ composition, and Maksim was our special effects artist. he had a keen eye for detail. Dream team.

Moscow Mural from Beddow n Battini on Vimeo.

50+ it took us. Us being fellow Beddow n Battini member Tatiana Alisova and Moscow resident Max, a mural artist who prepared all the paint and markers for us days before. We had no idea it would take us that long, but it was definitely a welcome learning experience.

Its funny, when i started this blog back in foundation i never really imagined myself doing as many murals as I have been. The first major thing i did was a mural... it figures.